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  • February 5, 2016 at 3:53 pm #23124
    Anna
    Member

    Howdy. I am racking my brain trying to limit the characters of the vendor’s shop description output.
    I am using and heavily editing the vendor shop header from the FREE version and using it with PRO.

    I have been able to use css and php to design and output things the way I wish in the headers… with the exception of this feature. I would like to limit/truncate the shop description output in the header, but be able to add a text link to the full shop description.
    The only thing I cannot get to work is limiting the output/characters of text shown from the $shop_description meta. If I don’t limit the characters, then the descriptions could take up half the page if the vendors get wordy.

    I thought I read that you had done this to the PRO vendor shop headers… but so far in looking through the PRO code I have not found it. I was going to use your code and an example and work it into my code for my header.

    If you can help in any way I would be appreciative. Even if it is just to guide me to the pro code if you guys had limited the characters for the shop description in the headers.
    TY
    -Anna

    February 5, 2016 at 3:56 pm #23125
    WC Vendors Support
    Participant

    substr.

    http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_string_substr.asp

    echo substr( $shop_description, 100); // for the first 100 characters

    …or to get fancy:

    echo substr( $shop_description, 100) . '...'; // to add some dot dot dots at the end of the string

    February 5, 2016 at 4:02 pm #23126
    Anna
    Member

    Voilà! Thanks so much, Ben. I had even visited that site. Unfortunately I did not use the term substr in my searching.
    This will help me get this done.
    Cheers!

    February 5, 2016 at 4:05 pm #23127
    WC Vendors Support
    Participant

    You would have found it. I have faith in you. You’re learning REALLY fast.

    What is $shop_description? It’s a variable that contains a string. Ok, that’s great. So, what do we type in google?

    “How do I get the first few characters of a string”

    First link, is the one I showed you. 🙂 Voila! as you say. 😉

    February 5, 2016 at 4:33 pm #23131
    Anna
    Member

    *sigh*…. I know. I am SO CLOSE to being done and I have been up without sleep for WAAAY too long. I just wasn’t searching enough or correctly.
    And you’re right- I’ve learned so much. I remember the first request I made for help last summer.. the REALLY LONG email. I can’t believe I wrote that now. All I had to do was try. 🙂 Yay!

    This worked: <?php echo substr( $shop_description, 0,220) . “….”; ?> I had to add the zero so that the excerpt starts at the first character.
    Much better. 😉

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