Product Name field size?

[araferejian]

My site is www.rustileearts.com, On the lest column I have a What's new area. Some of my product names get cutoff. Why is that? Any help would be much appreciated.

When you click on the item the full name shows up on the product page.

[Guest]

Ara,

 

The column width is normally only 125px wide. So, extended text gets truncated.

 

 

 

Chris

[germ]

Your template has code that limits the length so it doesn't (possibly) "break" the page format.

[araferejian]

Can you make it wrap into a second line?

 

Thanks

[germ]

Post the code from /includes/boxes/whats_new.php

 

The text will automatically wrap - It doesn't need to be truncated.

[araferejian]

<?php

/*

$Id: whats_new.php,v 1.31 2003/02/10 22:31:09 hpdl Exp $

 

osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions

http://www.oscommerce.com

 

Copyright © 2003 osCommerce

 

Released under the GNU General Public License

*/

 

if ($random_product = tep_random_select("select products_id, products_image, products_tax_class_id, products_price from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " where products_status = '1' order by products_date_added desc limit " . MAX_RANDOM_SELECT_NEW)) {

?>

<!-- whats_new //-->

<tr>

<td class="">

<?php

$random_product['products_name'] = tep_get_products_name($random_product['products_id']);

$random_product['specials_new_products_price'] = tep_get_products_special_price($random_product['products_id']);

 

$info_box_contents = array();

$info_box_contents[] = array('text' => BOX_HEADING_WHATS_NEW);

 

new infoBoxHeading($info_box_contents, false, false, tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCTS_NEW));

 

if (tep_not_null($random_product['specials_new_products_price'])) {

 

$name_prod = '

<span><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $random_product['products_id']) . '">' . substr( $random_product['products_name'],0,MAX_DESCR_NAME_BOX) . '</a></span>

';

 

$whats_new_price = '<s>' . $currencies->display_price($random_product['products_price'], tep_get_tax_rate($random_product['products_tax_class_id'])) . '</s>     ';

$whats_new_price .= '<span class="productSpecialPrice">' . $currencies->display_price($random_product['specials_new_products_price'], tep_get_tax_rate($random_product['products_tax_class_id'])) . '</span>';

} else {

$whats_new_price = '<span class="productSpecialPrice">'.$currencies->display_price($random_product['products_price'], tep_get_tax_rate($random_product['products_tax_class_id'])).'</span>';

 

$name_prod = '

<span><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $random_product['products_id']) . '">' . substr( $random_product['products_name'],0,MAX_DESCR_NAME_BOX) . '</a></span>

';

}

 

$info_box_contents = array();

$info_box_contents[] = array('align' => 'center ',

'text' => '

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" border="0">

<tr><td height="86" align="center">'.tep_draw_prod_top().'

<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $random_product['products_id']) . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $random_product['products_image'], $random_product['products_name'], SMALL_IMAGE_WIDTH, SMALL_IMAGE_HEIGHT) . '</a>'.tep_draw_prod_bottom().'</td></tr>

<tr><td height="42" align="center"><br style="line-height:1px;"><br style="line-height:5px;">

'.$name_prod.'<br><br style="line-height:10px">

'.$whats_new_price.'

</td></tr>

</table>

');

 

new infoBox($info_box_contents);

?>

</td>

</tr>

<!-- whats_new_eof //-->

<?php

}

?>

[germ]

This code (which containe the length limit code I spoke of):

 

$name_prod = '
<span><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $random_product['products_id']) . '">' . substr( $random_product['products_name'],0,MAX_DESCR_NAME_BOX) . '</a></span>';

 

Needs changed to:

 

$name_prod = '
<span><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $random_product['products_id']) . '">' . $random_product['products_name'] . '</a></span>';

 

THE CODE APPEARS IN THE FILE TWICE.

 

Before you go changing anything I should tell you that we can't predict where it will wrap to the next line. It might do it in the middle of a word.

 

BACKUP THE FILE BEFORE YOU CHANGE IT.

[araferejian]

Thank you germ. That fixed the problem.

 

Do you know how to fix similar problem in the product description on the main page?

 

I really appreciate all your help.

 

Ara

[germ]

The code for that is in /includes/modules/new_products.php

 

But I warn you. If the description is longer than about 236 characters displaying it all will "break" the page format.

 

It will make that particular box longer vertically than the one next to it.