Contributions

Complete Rewrite

Having written a similar function of this for Product Listing Enhancements, Thumbnails & Manufacturer Headings http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/6051

I looked at this and not liking add-ons that are un-necessarily complex (of which there are far too many) I have produced this re-write, that basically uses the code that I used before.

Instead of 7 files to edit, there are now just 2.


Full Install Package

Support thread: http://forums.oscommerce.com/index.php?showtopic=145921

Full Install Package
Includes products_new, a screenshot as well as the fix from enigma1 to functions/general.php.

Support thread: http://forums.oscommerce.com/index.php?showtopic=145921

Had to replace the tep_flatten_product_description function as follows:


function tep_flatten_product_description($description, $link)
{
$description = ereg_replace('<[^>]*>', '', $description);
if (strlen($description) > PRODUCT_LIST_DESCRIPTION_MAX_LENGTH){

$description = substr($description, 0, PRODUCT_LIST_DESCRIPTION_MAX_LENGTH);
$description .= "...".$link;
}else {
$description .= $link;
}
return $description;
}


More information for this:
http://forums.oscommerce.com/index.php?showtopic=166759

Seems the explode statement not always worked and if the description was shorter than PRODUCT_LIST_DESCRIPTION_MAX_LENGTH
would not append the link info.

No files attached

Hi,
this is my first contribution, so sorry for any unusual behaviou.

so if you still don´t know how to fix this small problem with the products_new.php

you just have to change one line in the products_new file.

Best Regards
netwulf

* Corrected various errors in installation instructions
* Removed all extra files in directory (there were duplicates all over the place)
* Cleaned up installation instructions

All credit to original authors.
Tested with Osc2.2ms2

Description still not being listed in products_new.php - someone please asist with that.

Support thread: http://forums.oscommerce.com/index.php?showtopic=145921

Full package.

Support thread for this contrib has been started here:

http://forums.oscommerce.com/index.php?showtopic=145921

(Attached zip file is empty)

Works now whit osc 2ms2.2

This module will add a short description of the product when listing
products.

It is based on the product description field of the products_description
table. The string represented the product description does not include
any HTML tags : all HTML tages are stripped in order to avoid displaying
invalid HTML codes.

The product description displayed used the stylesheet class 'productDesc'.
This class will be added in your stylesheet.css file and you can customize
it to follow your graphic chart.