item description text replacement - best practices?

[whodah]

Hello,

 

I'd like to insert some PHP code to replace terms/words in an item description automatically. I kludged this in 2.2, but was wondering where the best place and/or approach (least obtrusive) would be for BS 2.3.4?

 

I.e. if a product description is:

 

The best __DVD__ around.

 

I'll replace "__DVD__" with " DVD or Blu-ray " making the customer displayed description: 

 

The best DVD or Blu-ray around.

 

My replacements are a bit more complex than this example, but you get the idea. :)

 

Thanks! 

 

[Jack_mcs]

If you are talking about doing this on the fly on the shops product page, find this line

echo stripslashes($product_info['products_description']);

And change it something like

echo stripslashes(str_replace('DVD', 'DVD or Blur Ray',$product_info['products_description']));

[whodah]

Hello,

 

Okey dokey, gotcha. I thought there might be a hook, or something, that could be used rather than modifying core code.

 

Thanks!

[ArtcoInc]

@@whodah

 

Are you looking to do the replacement 'on the fly', or a mass replacement in the database itself?

 

Malcolm

[whodah]

Hello,

 

In this case, on the fly as the final replacement(s) will be dynamic.

 

Thanks,

-Jeremy

[♥bruyndoncx]

I've used phpgiggle in the past.

 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpgiggle/files/

 

not 100% what you need, but i think it is getting close

[whodah]

Hi all,

 

Thanks for the replies. Jack_mcs's solution (or at least thought process as I haven't coded it yet) works fine, and is indeed near the kludge I used in 2.2. I was thinking/hoping there was some sort of hook/plugin that I could use on the newer version of OSC vs. modifying core code.

 

Thanks for the help, all!