Geek wanting HTML in product description

[michael_rebreathe]

I've combed through too many posts to count, and each one is either for old versions of Zen Cart or requires plug-ins...

I want to enter raw HTML into product descriptions and have it show up on the product page. I don't want WYSIWYG, since I don't want more plug-ins to manage and troubleshoot.

I'm looking for where Zen Cart 1.5.4 strips HTML tags...K.I.S.S.

[kobra]

Try looking in \includes\modules\product_listing.php
About line 186
Make any alterations in a copy for your template

[michael_rebreathe]

Try looking in \includes\modules\product_listing.php
About line 186
Make any alterations in a copy for your template

I saw a recommendation in a previous post, which appears to be where you're pointing and tried it to no avail...

Any references to product_description are on line 97

 
$lc_text = '<h3 class="itemTitle"><a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($listing->fields['products_id']), 'cPath=' . 
(($_GET['manufacturers_id'] > 0 and $_GET['filter_id'] > 0) ?  zen_get_generated_category_path_rev($_GET['filter_id']) : 
($_GET['cPath'] > 0 ? zen_get_generated_category_path_rev($_GET['cPath']) : 
zen_get_generated_category_path_rev($listing->fields['master_categories_id']))) . '&products_id=' . $listing->fields['products_id']) . 
'">' . $listing->fields['products_name'] . '</a></h3><div class="listingDescription">' . 
zen_trunc_string(zen_clean_html(stripslashes(zen_get_products_description($listing->fields['products_id'], $_SESSION['languages_id']))), PRODUCT_LIST_DESCRIPTION) . '</div>';

or lines 175 to 187, which are all commented out.

Line 97

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

changed to

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

-to permit the truncating descriptions that are too long

or

 
zen_get_products_description($listing->fields['products_id'], $_SESSION['languages_id']

-to ignore truncating and leave it up to us to control the length of our descriptions manually

[kobra]

Do you know who and why they were commented out?

[michael_rebreathe]

No I don't...
Zen Cart 1.5.4
Products with attributes stock
CEON URI mapping
alien stemware template

All installed < 2 weeks ago

...of course, this is one of 40 active updates on my bullet list since this is a new site and the owner wants it up yesterday...

[kobra]

Were you looking at a ZenCart core file?
Or a copy of it in your template override folder?

[michael_rebreathe]

Core file. product_listing.php isn't in the template directory tree.

[kobra]

Core file. product_listing.php isn't in the template directory tree

Suggest that you create a folder named for your template under "modules"
This is allowed because out of the box there exists a "classic" folder under "modules"

Reload a clean copy of the file back to /modules
Check the 3rd party addons you have installed for this file - maybe one of them overwrote the original
If so, compare the dates at the top of the file or better yet, use a file comparison program and compare it to an original

Make a copy of the original file and upload it to the created template folder
Make your edits to this file

[michael_rebreathe]

Suggest that you create a folder named for your template under "modules"
This is allowed because out of the box there exists a "classic" folder under "modules"

Reload a clean copy of the file back to /modules
Check the 3rd party addons you have installed for this file - maybe one of them overwrote the original
If so, compare the dates at the top of the file or better yet, use a file comparison program and compare it to an original

Make a copy of the original file and upload it to the created template folder
Make your edits to this file

product_listing.php only exists at /includes/modules/product_listing.php. I'm not able to copy from "classic" to my "current" template folder since it doesn't exist in the "classic" directory structure. It doesn't exist in the current (altered by template/mod installation) directory structure or that of the zen-cart-v1.5.4-12302014 ZIP file I used for the base install...

[kobra]

and have it show up on the product page

What page are you trying to get html to display
a producting listing page or a product info page?
A listing page will have the url similar to this

index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1

A product info page will look similar to this

index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1_4

Can you post a link??