return only 50 chars from item title?

[Guest]

is it possible for me to return only 50 characters from the <?php echo $products_name; ?> command?

 

 

so instead of something like

 

item name - item title (mini desc)

 

 

 

it posts:

item name

 

 

...or, if it's any easier... all of my product titles and mini descriptions have a - separating them, so discarding anything after the - would be ideal.

 

i don't need this for the entire page. i wanted to create something like "want to be updated on new products from item name? enter your email" type of thing below the add to cart button.

 

i find that to be far more efficient than people requesting updates for specific items

[Jack_mcs]

Try changing this

<?php echo $products_name; ?>

to

<?php echo (substr($products_name, 0, 50)); ?>

That will not work correctly if the product description is less than 50 so you really should expand the code to check for the length first.

 

Jack

[♥Monika in Germany]

is it possible for me to return only 50 characters from the <?php echo $products_name; ?> command?

so instead of something like

 

item name - item title (mini desc)

it posts:

item name

...or, if it's any easier... all of my product titles and mini descriptions have a - separating them, so discarding anything after the - would be ideal.

 

i don't need this for the entire page. i wanted to create something like "want to be updated on new products from item name? enter your email" type of thing below the add to cart button.

 

i find that to be far more efficient than people requesting updates for specific items

 

add this function to your includes/functions/general.php

   function before ($this, $inthat)
  {
   return substr($inthat, 0, strpos($inthat, $this));
  };

 

then when calling on the part before the -, use this code:

<?php echo before(' - ', $products_name); ?>

[Guest]

thanks guys :)