Length of Text Displayed on Customer Reviews Page

[limelites]

If you look at my reviews page here:

http://www.limelites.co.uk/index.php?main_page=reviews

you'll see that a lot of the review texts are cut short and truncated. Is there a simple way to increase the length of characters that's allowed on this page, so that the entire text is displayed in each review? There is certainly enough space.

[niccol]

in includes/templates/yourtemplate/templates/tpl_reviews_default.php fin the line:

<div class="content"><?php echo zen_break_string(nl2br(zen_output_string_protected(stripslashes($reviews->fields['reviews_text']))), 60, '-<br />') . ((strlen($reviews->fields['reviews_text']) >= 100) ? '...' : ''); ?></div>

About line 43.

It is the 60 and the 100 that you are interested in. The 60 is the length of the string and the 100 is where it decides to put the ... in.

[niccol]

But if you want the whole thing try :

<div class="content"><?php echo nl2br(zen_output_string_protected(stripslashes($reviews->fields['reviews_text'])))?></div>

[limelites]

But if you want the whole thing try :

<div class="content"><?php echo nl2br(zen_output_string_protected(stripslashes($reviews->fields['reviews_text'])))?></div>

Nope, that does the same thing, just cuts the review text off dead. So where the '...' once was there's just nothing, but it still doesn't show the full text.

[limelites]

I'd need to add something to the code that allows the review to take up multiple lines... increasing the 100 to 10000 seems to get rid of the '...' but still doesn't allow the full review to display.

[niccol]

Sorry. It seems to be done in the sql query as well. So, stick to my final version and have a look at:

includes/modules/pages/reviews/header_php.php

Have a look at line 17

$reviews_query_raw = "SELECT r.reviews_id, left(rd.reviews_text, 100) AS reviews_text, r.reviews_rating, r.date_added, p.products_id, pd.products_name, p.products_image, r.customers_name

which truncates the reviews_text to 100. Works for me....

[limelites]

Thanks for the reply.... I changed the 60 to 600 and the 100 to 1000, but now insterad of the .... it just cuts off the review, dead.