CR in Short Description

[Sean Williams]

In the Short Description field of a product ....
I want the short description to be spread over two lines when displayed on screen in the store.
To achieve this I insert !!<<br />>!! which gives the CR perfectly well.

However, the <br /> appears in the product line in the Cart, with no CR.
(see image)

The lack of a CR in the Cart isn't important, but I'd like to get rid of the <br />.
Is this possible?

[Goz]

I fudged it based on a reply to this problem a while ago by Norman.

If I want a CRLF in my product description I put a ' - ' i.e. space hyphen space.

In the layout that displays this I then put

 
<h2><actinic:block php="true">echo str_replace(' - ', '<br/>', '<Actinic:Variable Name="ProductName" selectable="false" />');</actinic:block></h2>

It then displays as a single line in the cart.

May be a solution for you?

[Sean Williams]

Thanks Goz!
The theory works a treat.
However, I'm finding it only works with the alphanumeric charcters (ie; a to z and 0 to 9) - with the rest it simply doesn't work.
So 'space hyphen space' doesn't work; but, 'space, space, space' DOES work!
Can anyone shed some light on this?

As an aside - I'd like to learn what's going on here; can you explain the 'php="true' bit?
And also, what is operating the 'echo str_replace' - is this a piece of java or
is it something recognised by the perl processing?

Showing my true shallow knowledge here

[jont]

can you explain the 'php="true' bit?

That tells Actinic the next block of code is PHP and should be parsed accordingly. Actinic has it's own inbuilt PHP handling since v8

what is operating the 'echo str_replace'

Again this is a PHP string function .. which is essentially replacing value "x" with value "y" ... you could use "TTT" as the replace as this is unlikely to be in the text and no messing with spaces .. it could equally be "GOATS"

[jont]

For some hands on tutorials using PHP check out http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/DEfaULT.asP

[NormanRouxel]

<actinic:block php="true"> tells Actinic to that the code until the </actinic:block> is not text but is PHP code. Actinic has the entire PHP language built-in to do tricky stuff with.

The code inside is PHP, so look up echo, str_replace, etc in the PHP documentation that's all over the 'net.

As for space dash space not being recognised that's probably because Actinic has replaced all non alphanumerics with &#nn; type entries. The forum has munged Andrew's post. My original post was OK.

Use:

<actinic:block php="true">echo str_replace(' &#38;#45; ', '<br/>', '<Actinic:Variable Name="ProductName" selectable="false" />');</actinic:block>

[Sean Williams]

Thanks for taking the trouble guys - this makes everything clear.

It's such a small thing this, but it's going to make a big difference to us when it comes to neat display of the Short desc. and giving us full info when order processing.

I've never dabbled in PHP, but I'll take a look at that tutorial.
Cheers

[Goz]

Sorry Sean.... nearly caused as much confusion as I solved! I should have spotted that &#45 had been replaced in my post.

[meden]

slightly off topic I know but a quick question for Norm- Does Actinic work with PHP v5.2+? I'm wondering whether I will be able to utilise the OOP improvements on future projects...

[Sean Williams]

Sorry Sean.... nearly caused as much confusion as I solved! I should have spotted that - had been replaced in my post.

Thanks Goz but not necessary - it led to me learning more than just the one answer

[leehack]

slightly off topic I know but a quick question for Norm- Does Actinic work with PHP v5.2+? I'm wondering whether I will be able to utilise the OOP improvements on future projects...

You can put the following into a product description to find out the current version:

!!<<actinic:block php="true">phpinfo();</actinic:block>>!!

[malbro]

slightly off topic I know but a quick question for Norm- Does Actinic work with PHP v5.2+? I'm wondering whether I will be able to utilise the OOP improvements on future projects...

Actinic V8 uses PHP V4 and Actinic V9 uses PHP V5 locally on your PC. The clue is in the phpnts.dll in the actinic folder where n is 4 for V8 and 5 for V9.

[meden]

Thanks folks - I guess I didn't really understand how Actinic dealt with PHP or I would've thought of using the phpinfo function.