Description with formatting on Category Listing page

[vandiermen]

Hello,

I have done some searching and I can’t find out how to add formatting to the short description on a Category Listing page. I know how to increase the length but not how to add formatting.

Thanks.
Michael
Buying zencart team a donut and cup of coffee very soon

[schoolboy]

Zencart strips out the html on listing pages, because you are able to set the length of displayed characters (it's a variable)... If you have html tags in this, you may truncate a tag and the displayed result will be a mess.

There is a technique to over-ride this (do a forum search), but it must be used with caution...

[vandiermen]

hello, I did a forum serach and could not find the over-ride

[stevesh]

Search the forums for zen_clean_html

[vandiermen]

I did a GREP search (text search within zencart install files)


and found /includes/modules/theme197/product_listing.php
(in default install would be /includes/modules/product_listing.php)

and replaced

. zen_trunc_string(zen_clean_html(stripslashes(zen_get_products_description($listing->fields['products_id'], $_SESSION['languages_id']))), PRODUCT_LIST_DESCRIPTION) . 

with

. zen_trunc_string(zen_get_products_description($listing->fields['products_id'], $_SESSION['languages_id']), PRODUCT_LIST_DESCRIPTION) . 

Thanks that worked

[gjh42]

Note that you need to do the same thing in two adjacent lines in that file.

Also note that you need to set the product listing description length to longer than you will ever use, so that you will not risk truncating text with HTML formatting in it and leaving loose tags.

[looserfoot]

I need help. I have edited using these codes. It works on the top 2 products, only, how do I make it apply to all listings? Please see attached image. I want all listings to be formatted like the top image.

I changed the top code to the bottom code in includes / modules / product_listing.php There was only 2 instances to change.

. zen_trunc_string(zen_clean_html(stripslashes(zen_get_products_description($listing->fields['products_id'], $_SESSION['languages_id']))), PRODUCT_LIST_DESCRIPTION) .  

/////////////////////////////////
. zen_trunc_string(zen_get_products_description($listing->fields['products_id'], $_SESSION['languages_id']), PRODUCT_LIST_DESCRIPTION) .

All help appreciated.

Abbie
V1.3.9d
no mods installed

[gjh42]

I need to see your site live to have any chance of finding out why it is behaving like that.

Are all of the listings you are referring to actually "product listings"? The tweak mentioned is only for that kind of listing.