Any Way To Restrict Number Of Characters In Categories Sidebox?

[thepw]

Hi there, could somebody let me know the way to restrict the number of characters that are displayed in the category sidebox, as some of our categories are forcing box and looking rather poor ...

 

Currently for example on our categories is (they are candles btw)

 

Apple Pie, Vanilla & Gingerbread

 

in the categories sidebox only we would like it to be displayed as

 

Apple Pie ...

 

Is this possible, many thanks

 

Paul

[oschellas]

catalog/includes/boxes/categories.php

 

replace:

// display category name
$categories_string .= $tree[$counter]['name'];

 

by:

// display category name
//substract amount of characters from category name
$categories_string .= substr($tree[$counter]['name'],0,4);

//add ... if category name is cut
if(strlen($tree[$counter]['name']) > 4){
$categories_string .= ' ...';
}

 

Replace 4 by the amount of characters you want to display.

[thepw]

Thankyou very much! superb!