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1. marcelvanm
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   I'm trying to limit the amount of characters that will be displayed for the product description so I replaced this
   <?php echo wpsc_the_product_description(); ?>

   with this
   <?php echo substr(wpsc_the_product_description(),0,250); ?>

   on one of my pages and now something happens that messes it up my template.

   Can someone give me a pointer to what I need to do (or must not do) to fix this?

   This is the first time I'm trying to use substr() so perhaps it's something simple...

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper & Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   if the 'wpsc_the_product_description()' contains any html tags, 'substr' is likely to break them - which will lead to display problems.

   can you post links to examples of the problem?

3. marcelvanm
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   It's at this page:

   http://vmtweewielers.nl/2012/products-page/alledamesfietsen/

   As you can see the page isn't how it should be looking.

   Is there a way that substr() will leave the html intact?

4. Iamhere
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   Try this:

   Put this in function.php

   function string_limit_words($string, $word_limit)
   {
   $words = explode(' ', $string, ($word_limit + 1));
   if(count($words) > $word_limit)
   array_pop($words);
   return implode(' ', $words);
   }

   <?php // put this where you want to echo it out
   $excerpt = wpsc_the_product_description(); echo string_limit_words($excerpt,50)."...";?>

5. remita
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #
   

   Hi,

   Iam using the wpsc_the_product_description(); in one of my theme page..

   and in function page I use the function
   function wpsc_the_product_description() {
   $content = get_the_content( __( 'View More ...', 'wpsc' ) );
   return do_shortcode( wpautop( $content,1 ) );
   }

   But it not working with <!--more--> tag.
   Its displaying all the content.
   Any idea?

   Thanks
   Remita

6. heliacal
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   There is an anouther decision of the problem whith
   <?php echo substr(wpsc_the_product_description(),0,250); ?>

   It is<?php $excerpt=strip_tags(wpsc_the_product_description()); echo substr($excerpt,0,250)."..."; ?> And no mud in your template.

   [Moderator Note: Please post code or markup snippets between backticks or use the code button. As it stands, your code may now have been permanently damaged/corrupted by the forum's parser.]

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