Add description to shopping cart

My store uses short descriptions and I'd like to include them in the shopping cart. I added this:

<?php echo zen_products_lookup($product, 'products_description'); ?>
```to tpl_shopping_cart_default.php but it's pulling up the description for the first product in the database for ALL products.

What am I missing?

is $product actually the products_id? Or is it using something else?

Do you really want products_description or do you have another field where the short product description is stored?

I have to admit I'm clueless here. :huh: I'm not sure what to use - I've tried $product and **$product['id'] **with same results each time.

I do want to pull products_description because all the descriptions are very short anyway -- there's no need to create a special field for short descriptions.

It is pulling the right description -- but for the wrong product. It displays the description from the first product in the database for each product in the shopping cart.

If I add this around line 86 under the clear both ...

<br class="clearBoth" />
<?php echo zen_products_lookup($product['id'], 'products_description'); ?>

I get the description displayed ...

You will need to tidy this up some ...

Thanks, I tried that and it's still returning the same description for everything in the shopping cart. For some reason it's stuck on product_id 1 and returns that description for everything.

I tried changing from products_description to other fields, like products_price, and so far every field works correctly except products_description. I know descriptions are stored in a separate table. Could that be the problem?

Apparently I didn't search well enough before posting this! You answered the same question a few months ago (http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63857) and while the zen_products_lookup isn't working, another function you mentioned - zen_get_products_description - works just fine! So THANK YOU for your help -- both now and in the original post! :clap:

Use this instead ...

<?php echo zen_get_products_description($product['id']); ?>

yes that is the one ... :cool: