Display Custom Product Description

[bgroup99]

I am aware that you can turn the display product description to 0 in Admin:Configuration to remove the product description under product titles whhen browsing by categories.

Example:
http://shop.thebricktongroup.com/ind...=index&cPath=3

I would like to put something there however. I don't want to use my long description because some items have dropdown menus at the begining for model/color selection at the beginning of product description pages. Is there anyway to insert a separate description i.e. a "short" description for each product that only shows when browsing by category? Any advice is much appreciated!

Thanks.

[jonequest]

Hi, I'm new on Zencart, would you please let me know how did you add a link on your product list so it displays product description in another page?

[bgroup99]

Anyone? ::Bump::

[Kim]

More details?

[bgroup99]

Basically when someone is looking at all of the products in a category
or subcategory, we want a small custom description to appear next to
each product (a different description than may be found once the
person clicks on a specific product...)

I know I can turn descriptions completely off, but I was hoping to display something other than the first so many characters of the product info.

any ideas are greatly appreciated

[hetalsagar]

hi can u guide me how to uninstall product listing column_layout_grid_v_1_3_8 module.

www.sizzlingshop.com
hetalsagar

[Jeniferous]

Has anyone found a way to do this since 09? I want to do the same. On my site I wanted thje user to be able to see size and colour variants on the product listing but didnt want them to be as a drop down attribute fields. Therefore i enabled HTML within the product description and put swatches of the colour and the sizes in the top of the description.

The thing is that now i'm getting more and more products i can't fit many per page as theres loads of text. In an ideal world i would just show the swatches at the top and the size text. I know i can limit the amount of text which shows on the product listing, but there will be a different amount for each product, and it ruins the grid layout i've got installed if i amend the listing length.

If i could have two different descriptions it would solve my problem!

Example page is http://www.jambaroo.co.uk/babies/accessories

Thanks!

[stevesh]

Have you looked at this ?

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=271

I have used it, but not with 1.3.9.

[bobmoss]

In case anyone wants to do this, I've come up with some simple custom code to allow the display of a short descriptions.

Basically, enter your description as normal with a <br /> where you want to short description to end.

So for example, enter your full description as:

"Tasty Strawberry Jam<br />This is the best Strawberry jam you will have ever tasted."

The code below will look for the <br /> tag and only display "Tasty Strawberry Jam" as the description on the product listing page. If you don't put in a <br /> tag then the description will display as normal.

You need to edit your overridden product_listing.php file (found in includes\modules\YOURTEMPLATE) , and find the line:

$lc_text = '<h3 class="itemTitle"><a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($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>';

And replace it with this code:

        $shortDesc = zen_get_products_description($listing->fields['products_id'], $_SESSION['languages_id']);
        // Now find the first occurance of <br /> - We actually look for <br in case we have forgotten the space
        $brPos = stripos($shortDesc, '<br');
        // If no <br /> tag then just show whole description as normal.
        if ($brPos != 0)
        {
             $shortDesc = substr($shortDesc, 0, $brPos );
        }
        $lc_text = '<h3 class="itemTitle"><a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($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']) . '">' . $listing->fields['products_name'] . '</a></h3><div class="listingDescription">' . zen_trunc_string(zen_clean_html(stripslashes($shortDesc)), PRODUCT_LIST_DESCRIPTION) . '</div>';

You can of course change this to look for a different tag instead or even to not show the short description on the product detail page.

Hope this helps someone else.

Bob.