Trying to add line breaks into description

I'm attempting to add line breaks into the product listing.

As you can see below, the word 'Test" is on the same line for the first product.

http://store.freehandnetworks.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=5_9

I commented out the lines in functions_general.php that changes the "<BR>" type tags to spaces. It appears the tags are still being changed to spaces.

Does anyone have any pointers to keep the tags from being replaced?

Thanks,
Doug

DougWare:

I'm attempting to add line breaks into the product listing.

As you can see below, the word 'Test" is on the same line for the first product.

http://store.freehandnetworks.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=5_9

I commented out the lines in functions_general.php that changes the "<BR>" type tags to spaces. It appears the tags are still being changed to spaces.

Does anyone have any pointers to keep the tags from being replaced?

Thanks,
Doug

for up to 10 users and 1 month management service. <br />Test

haredo:

for up to 10 users and 1 month management service. <br />Test

That produced the same result...

What's even stranger is that the <P> tag works, just not the <BR> tag. I've searched and searched, and I don't seem to be able to find where the tag is being replaced.

Can someone please point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Doug

The place to change this is not in functions_general.php, but in /includes/modules/your_template/product_listing.php.

All you need to do is comment out zen_clean_html in two places, like this:

/zen_clean_html/```php
case 'PRODUCT_LIST_NAME':
$lc_align = '';
if (isset($_GET['manufacturers_id'])) {
$lc_text = '<h3 class="itemTitle"><a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($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>' ;
} else {
$lc_text = '<h3 class="itemTitle"><a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($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>';
}
break;

That worked perfectly!

Thanks!

gjh42:

The place to change this is not in functions_general.php, but in /includes/modules/your_template/product_listing.php.

All you need to do is comment out zen_clean_html in two places, like this:

/zen_clean_html/```php
case 'PRODUCT_LIST_NAME':
$lc_align = '';
if (isset($_GET['manufacturers_id'])) {
$lc_text = '<h3 class="itemTitle"><a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($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>' ;
} else {
$lc_text = '<h3 class="itemTitle"><a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($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>';
}
break;

You do need to be aware that if your description is longer that the length set in admin > Configuration > Product Listing, you risk having HTML tags cut off which can cause errors on your page. It is best to set the limit to longer than the longest description you expect to have; or you can take care not to have any HTML tags at all beyond that limit.

excellent this helped!!

awesome!! thanks for this info!!

I know this is digging up an old thread, but is it possible to have it detect the tags that were opened and not closed in the truncated version, and insert closing tags if needed at the end of the shortened text?

That would be a lot of complex analysis. You are welcome to write the code that would do this if you want.

Hello Everyone,
I need some help re html for product description.
I created columns in html, the columns shows all right in admin preview (when inserting new product), but the columns are missing in live shop.
Please see attached images to see what i mean.

Thank you previously for any help :smile:
[IMG]http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4124/htmlcolumns.jpg[/IMG]

Actually, this turned out really easy. PHP 5 has html Tidy already compiled with it by default, so I just put that into a var, ran Tidy, and there you go. No problems at all to this point. Here is an example of the code.

        case 'PRODUCT_LIST_MODEL':
        $lc_align = '';
        $lc_text = $listing->fields['products_model'];
        break;
        case 'PRODUCT_LIST_NAME':
        $lc_align = '';
        if (isset($_GET['manufacturers_id'])) {
		
		//processing description to allow it to display html tags in the product listing section.
		//this is to process the text so that there are no tags left that are not closed.
		$description_text_processed = '<div class="listingDescription">' . zen_trunc_string(stripslashes(zen_get_products_description($listing->fields['products_id'], $_SESSION['languages_id'])), PRODUCT_LIST_DESCRIPTION) . '</div>';
		
		$tidy = new Tidy();
		$clean = $tidy->repairString($description_text_processed, array(
			'output-xml' => true,
			'input-xml' => true
		));
		
          $lc_text = '<h3 class="itemTitle"><a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($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>' . $clean ;
        } else {
		$description_text_processed = '<div class="listingDescription">' . zen_trunc_string(stripslashes(zen_get_products_description($listing->fields['products_id'], $_SESSION['languages_id'])), PRODUCT_LIST_DESCRIPTION) . '</div>';
		
		$tidy = new Tidy();
		$clean = $tidy->repairString($description_text_processed, array(
			'output-xml' => true,
			'input-xml' => true
		));

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

Great, someone else has written the code so you can just use it:) That's a nice solution.