First 10 words

[kathynewman]

Does anyone know of a way using the php code as per the AUG for the first 10 words to get the script to ignore the first word and then continue?

Reason being as that all my product descriptions start with {Description} as I use tabber and when I use the First 10 Words code it includes {Description}.

Have had a look at the code but unfortunately my understanding of PHP isn't that good!

TIA

Kathy

[fergusw]

Kathy,
Try the following:

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

This simply skips the first word and then counts up to 10 words before displaying the "...".
This obviously means that it's only going to show 9 words in the example above. For 10 words you'd need to change the

if ($nCount > 10)

to

if ($nCount > 11)

Hope this helps.

*example code taken and amended from KB article

[kathynewman]

Thanks for that Fergus - however I think I didn't give enough detail in original post. What I need the php to do is ignore upto and including the first } character.

Your code worked fine except if there was no space after the first } it loses the first of the words I want to keep!

Kathy

[fergusw]

Hi Kathy,
It would be possible to get the first word to not show the first 13 characters (for {description}) however is it not possible to simply put a space after the }?

[malbro]

Thanks for that Fergus - however I think I didn't give enough detail in original post. What I need the php to do is ignore upto and including the first } character.

Your code worked fine except if there was no space after the first } it loses the first of the words I want to keep!

Kathy

use the trim command

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

{

if ($nCount > 10)

{

$sShort .= "...";

break;

}

$sShort .= $sWord . " ";

$nCount++;

}

echo $sShort;
</actinic:block>

This assumes that you always used Description and not description

[fergusw]

or to always miss out the

{description}

from the first word you could use

<actinic:block php="true" >
$sShort = "";
$nCount = 0;
$sOriginal = '<actinic:variable encoding="perl" name="ProductDescription" selectable="false" />';
foreach(explode(" ", $sOriginal) as $sWord)
{
if ($nCount > 10)
{
$sShort .= "...";
break;
}
if ($nCount == 0) {
    $sShort .= substr($sWord,13) . " ";
}
else {
$sShort .= $sWord . " ";
}
$nCount++;
}
echo $sShort;
</actinic:block>

Very quick, clunky solution. Note: this will only work properly if all descriptions start with {description}.
If there are other details within the tabber then perhaps a more elegant solution would be required.

[NormanRouxel]

I've posted how to do this on my Tabber support forum. See http://www.drillpine.biz/forums/view...php?f=12&t=257