Hello

I recall that there was a discussion about limiting the Description size to a maximum number of letters..
Can anyone refresh my memory on how to do so?

Or may be point the forum as I could not find it through the search.
Regards
KaTaBd

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Do you want to do it overall, or just in a template? (i.e decide how much is shown).

If you want to do it overall, just update the "Description" field via Database > Links > Properties, and edit the "length" in there. That should do it :)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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Hi Andy

I want the USER to be able to submit any lenghth description they want..

BUT when it is dispalyed in the category page (NOT the Detailed page) only a set number of letters is displayed and ONLY in a small letter..

Thanks for any suggestions.
Regards
KaTaBd

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I use the following global and call it short_description and then use the tag: <%short_description%>

sub { my $tags = shift;
my $desc = $tags->{Description} ;
length $desc < 400 and return $desc;
my $short = substr ($desc, 0, 500);
$short =~ s/\s\S+?$//;
$short .= " ...";
return $short; }

The number of characters is 400 in this one, but you can change the number to what you like.

--Frank

Here is the same short description global except it formats the text.
You may be able to modify this to use "ONLY in a small letter"

sub {
#Displays the Description Short and formatted with line breaks.
my $tags = shift;
my $Description = $tags->{Description};
$Description = GT::CGI::html_escape($Description);
$Description =~ s/\n/<BR>\n/g;
$Description =~ s,\[(/?i)\],<$1>,g;
$Description =~ s,\[(/?b)\],<$1>,g;
length $Description <100 and return $Description;
my $short = substr ($Description, 0, 100);
$short =~ s/\s\S+?$//;
$short .= " ...";
return $short;

}

Regards

minesite

Thanks so much..
That works great..
I could not get it to force small letters..BUT it does half of what I wanted it to..

Thanks again.
Regards
KaTaBd

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What parts were you trying to lowercase? You could try;



...to something like;



Hope that helps.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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That worked

Thanks
Regards
KaTaBd

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Or better for description capitalize the first letter of the sentence only:




Koki