Best Seller/New Products

[Jan]

Go to the design tab, click on one of the new product descriptions and the window at the bottom of the screen will show the markup code - when I did this, product description was highlighted, so I just deleted it and pasted Zoltan's code into it's place. Job done.

That is why it is easier to make changes to the design with V8, you can just go to the design tab, click on whatever you want to change and just type in your changes. Then you see the changes right away in the top window and so can review them if you wish.

Regards,

[Jan]

That was my first attempt at changing the design with V8 - I'm feeling very pleased with myself

Regards,

[dazzerb]

Hi Jan,

thanks for that, it worked!!

Regards Darryl

[dscontroller]

Hi Jan,

I've also just tried this little trick and found that it worked. It's the only trick that has worked for me up to the now, so like you, feeling a little more pleased!!

I think that it is easy to manipulate the store using what is provided, but I suppose most of us want to do more unique offerings.

David

[cdicken]

I think that it is easy to manipulate the store using what is provided, but I suppose most of us want to do more unique offerings.

The whole 'big idea' behind v8 is that it has changed design from being a rigid set of templates to being a flexible ecommerce toolkit where you can define your own designs and rules. Over the coming months there will be lots of little tricks and fixes published that you can use for your site design to help you create something unique.

[jont]

Is there any way to preserve line breaks that appear in the full description in the shortend description? Eg: the full product shows :

Text 1
Text 2
Text 3 here with full blurb

.. using the PHP by Zoltan it loses the line breaks to:

Text 1 Text 2 Text 3 here with full blurb. Can the 3 line format be retained?

[dave_finlayson]

Jont,

Try changing the Encoding from 'HTML' to 'Leave as Is'

[jont]

Dave - I don't see that in that block of code?

[dave_finlayson]

Ooops. Encoding should be changed from Perl, not html, i.e:-

$sOriginal = "<actinic:variable encoding="perl" name="ProductDescription"

should become:-

$sOriginal = "<actinic:variable encoding="actinic" name="ProductDescription"

[jont]

Aha .. I see ... it is in the appearance of selector .. setting to "leave as is" works a treat.

Go straight to top of class Mr Finlayson

[dave_finlayson]

There's somewhere I have never been before!!!!

[jont]

I was usually at the back facing the wall

[leehack]

Was that to stop you sticking the desk together with chewing gum?

[bentleybloke]

<actinic:block php="true" >
$sShort = "";
$nCount = 0;
$sOriginal = "<actinic:variable encoding="perl" name="ProductDescription" selectable="false" />";
foreach(explode(" ", $sOriginal) as $sWord)
{
if ($nCount > 10)
{
$sShort .= "...";
break;
}
$sShort .= $sWord . " ";
$nCount++;
}

echo $sShort;
</actinic:block>

Is there a way of stopping html embedded in the product description from showing? If the description contains !!<<strong>>!!TEXT!!<</strong>>!! at the beginning for instance, this shows up in the marketing description complete with !!< etc.

Thanks!

[NormanRouxel]

Above the line

foreach(explode(" ", $sOriginal) as $sWord)

add

$sOriginal = preg_replace('/\!\!<|>\!\!/', '', $sOriginal); // remove!!< and >!!
$sOriginal = preg_replace('/<.*?>/', '', $sOriginal); // remove any HTML tags

NB untested, so be prepared to fix typos.