Weird Text Wrap Problem in Review Text area...

[Peace Freak]

I am testing out the Review feature of my cart.

When I write a review in English it works fine, but when I write one in Japanese, the text gets wrapped after the 31st Japanese character on each line. Also, a hyphen gets placed at the end of each line! (Japanese is a two bit language so I guess it is wrapping after the 62nd character...)

Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing this?

Thanks in advance!

[Peace Freak]

Have just discovered that the actual layout of the English review and the Japanaese review is significantly different, but I could not find the file that controls the layout.

My best guess is it is a language file so I looked in all the language related areas but could not come up with anything, so I would still appreciate any suggestions...

[Kim]

The URL where this can be seen?

[Peace Freak]

Hello Kim,

Thanks for taking the time to look into this. Here is the URL...

http://store.globalpeace.jp/index.ph...8&reviews_id=4

The English side looks looks like this:

http://store.globalpeace.jp/index.ph...78&language=en

Looking forward to your reply!

[Peace Freak]

In checking the links I just posted, I noticed that the formatting changes, depending on from where the page is accessed, while in the E side or the J side...

Anyway, the best way to see it appears to be by going to the main page of the store:

http://store.globalpeace.jp

Then clicking on the book icon (red and blue) in the Review side box...

Here is a sample, though as it is Japanese it will be garbled, but you will see how the text wraps...

??????????????????????????????-
??????????????????????????????-
??????????????????????????????-
??????????????????????????????-
???????????
???: 2006/08/25

[seethrou]

First, the following have not tested with v1.3.5 and is based on the experiences of previous version.
Therefore it may not the exact need and codes for the modifications.


If your character set using double bytes, you may need to modify the following files.

For english, the line break occur after the 60th characters and set by the code below in the related templates.
60, '-<br />

For override copy the below original file from
includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_product_reviews_info_default.php

And save it to you override directory of your template.
includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_product_reviews_info_default.php

In the new saved file
In Line 53 -

<div id="reviewsInfoDefaultMainContent" class="content"><?php echo zen_break_string(nl2br(zen_output_string_protected(stripslashes($review_info->fields['reviews_text']))), 60, '-<br />'); ?></div>

Modify the codes above of:
60, '-<br />'

For line break at 60th characters which is double bytes, change it to
120, '<br />'


For override copy the below original file from
includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_product_reviews_default.php

And save it to you override directory of your template.
includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_product_reviews_default.php

In the new saved file
Line 68 -

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

Modify the codes above of:
60, '-<br />'

For line break at 60th characters which is double bytes, change it to
120, '<br />'


There are also other files with the code of 60, '-<br />
But had not tried to modify at the previous test.

includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_reviews_default.php
Line 43 -

<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>

includes/modules/sideboxes/reviews.php
Line 41 -

$review_box_text = zen_break_string(nl2br(zen_output_string_protected(stripslashes($review_box_text->fields['reviews_text']))), 60, '-<br />'); 

[Peace Freak]

Thank you for your quick and detailed reply. I will be quite busy till this weekend and probably will not have time to make the adjustments till Sunday.

I find it strange that only the tpl_product_reviews_info_default.php and reviews.php are affected by this problem! I wonder why? All the other php files seem to be OK...

Anyway, thanks again!

[Peace Freak]

Thanks Seethrou,

Well, managed to get make some time and began modifying things! The very first one you suggested <includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_product_reviews_info_default.php> did the trick but not perfectly as it now wraps at 120, but there is still a hyphen where it wraps... Here is a sample that I know will end up unreadable because it is Japanese, but even so, you can get the idea, I hope:

????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????- (this is the hyphen and the wrap point)
???? etc....

So now at 120 characters it wraps, but the formatting still looks strange! I have the feeling there is something else that needs to be adjusted...

Perhaps this problem is because my cart has a liquid center section, it adjusts to the size of the browser window and these templates are for the old style unchanging width style templates...

Anyway, I look forward to any further suggestions!

[seethrou]

Please note the differents other than the numbers.
In contrast
60, '-<br />'
120, '<br />'

I didn't followed the code in detail and the - sign don't show up in english. I just remvoed it in my last test for it seems don't affect the english either although after the removal.

[Peace Freak]

Hi,

Finally found the time to get back to this problem...

After reading your last post, I delete the space but the text still wrapped... So I thought I would give this a try. I changed

120, '<br />')

to

120, '')

i.e., I just deleted the break tag...

That did the trick and the text wraps as it should now... I guess such a change should not cause any problems...

Thanks for helping me to sort this problem out!