Show more Review text on the initial Review page

[Fuzzbutt.co.uk]

Which bit of coding do I tweak to change the amount of review text shown on the main REVIEWS page? The way my site is laid out is leaving tons of space for more review text to be shown, but there is a character limit somewhere....and to read the full review you have to click it and go to a new page. Would look better if I could fill up the main page reviews with more visible text?

 

Thanks!! :blush:

[germ]

but there is a character limit somewhere

 

reviews.php

 

                    <td valign="top" class="main"><?php echo tep_break_string(tep_output_string_protected($reviews['reviews_text']), [b][color="#FF0000"][size=3]60[/size][/color][/b], '-<br>') . ((strlen($reviews['reviews_text']) >= 100) ? '..' : '') . '<br><br><i>' . sprintf(TEXT_REVIEW_RATING, tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'stars_' . $reviews['reviews_rating'] . '.gif', sprintf(TEXT_OF_5_STARS, $reviews['reviews_rating'])), sprintf(TEXT_OF_5_STARS, $reviews['reviews_rating'])) . '</i>'; ?></td>

You may have a different number there.

[Fuzzbutt.co.uk]

Didn't make any difference :( All it did was wipe out the .... after each review sentence.

[renataizabel]

I found it!!!

 

around line 88, change this number from 100 to whatever you want - I put 1500!!! Enough!!!

 

 

<?php

$reviews_query_raw = "select r.reviews_id, left(rd.reviews_text, 1500) as reviews_text, r.reviews_rating, r.date_added, r.customers_name from " . TABLE_REVIEWS . " r, " . TABLE_REVIEWS_DESCRIPTION . " rd where r.products_id = '" . (int)$product_info['products_id'] . "' and r.reviews_id = rd.reviews_id and rd.languages_id = '" . (int)$languages_id . "' order by r.reviews_id desc";

$reviews_split = new splitPageResults($reviews_query_raw, MAX_DISPLAY_NEW_REVIEWS);

 

then...

 

 

around line 169, change again the number 100 to the same number you put above. In my case, 1500!

 

<td width="10"><?php echo tep_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '10', '1'); ?></td>

<td valign="top" class="main"><?php echo tep_break_string(tep_output_string_protected($reviews['reviews_text']), 60, '-<br>') . ((strlen($reviews['reviews_text']) >= 1500) ? '..' : '') . '<br><br><i>' . sprintf(TEXT_REVIEW_RATING, tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'stars_' . $reviews['reviews_rating'] . '.gif', sprintf(TEXT_OF_5_STARS, $reviews['reviews_rating'])), sprintf(TEXT_OF_5_STARS, $reviews['reviews_rating'])) . '</i>'; ?></td>

<td width="10" align="right"><?php echo tep_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '10', '1'); ?></td>

 

 

Aleluia!!! It worked!!!

 

Renata