Change description trim

[DannyVarley]

Hi helpers!

I want to change the truncate function on the descriptions in the category pages. Instead of stripping after a certain amount of characters and taking out all html.

I want the function to simply trim everything after the first <br /> tag. Can this be done?

Many thanks,
Daniel

[gjh42]

It could theoretically be done, but would be dangerous. It would absolutely require perfection in your description writing, making sure that no HTML tags are ever opened before the <br /> and closed after it.

[DannyVarley]

Hi!

I have just gone over my entire product list and redone all the descriptions so that they are all the same,

the reason I was wanting to do this is that I wanted the first line from my description of the product to show in the shopping cart. I managed to do this by using

<?php if (zen_products_lookup($product['id'], 'products_type')==5){ 
              echo strstr(zen_products_lookup($product['id'], 'products_description'), 'Size', true);
              
              }?>

The if statement is to make sure that it is only the product type of "5" that this happens to,
Then the second bit takes the description and trims anything off after the word "size" and including size.

I think this should work perfectly as I have made sure all my descriptions are perfect.

It looks like it works too!

[gjh42]

Sounds like a good way to get the result you wanted.