Long category names

[quetzlcoatl]

Some of my category names are kinda long and either overhang the edge of the box or are squished into two rows (I'm using the graphical infobox header contribution with a background image).

 

Is there a way to limit the length of the category names as displayed in the category box, without changing anything in mysql? I need the full category name to display with the product listing.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[eHo]

You can try to expand the box width in ...

 

"catalog/includes/application_top.php"

 

On line 58 you will probably see something like...

 

// customization for the design layout
 define('BOX_WIDTH', 125); // how wide the boxes should be in pixels (default: 125)

 

Just change your box width to a higher number and see if that works for you.

[Guest]

In includes/boxes/categories.php (around line 35), changing

    $categories_string .= $tree[$counter]['name'];

to

    $categories_string .= substr($tree[$counter]['name'], 0, 20 - 2*$tree[$counter]['level']);

will limit all category names to 20 spaces (including blanks preceding the category name). Adjust 20 as needed (e.g. if you can fit 40, change 20 to 40).

 

Hth,

Matt

[quetzlcoatl]

Thank you!!!! You're the best! :D

[quetzlcoatl]

Could you help with one more thing?

 

I would like to set the category names to 20 characters. If a category name is longer then 20, then shorten it and add "..." to the end of the cat name. I wrote this, but it's adding "..." to all cat names, even those that are four or five characters long:

 

if ($cat_name = $cat_length) {
     $categories_string .= substr($tree[$counter]['name'], 0, 20 - 2*$tree[$counter]['level']). "...";
   }
else {
     $categories_string .= $tree[$counter]['name'];
   }

 

I added a line under $categories_string .= tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, $cPath_new) . '">'; in categories.php that says:

 

$cat_length=20;

 

 

Thanks for your help!

[quetzlcoatl]

AH-HA fixed.... if anyone else wants to know, here is the code that will limit cat names to 22 characters, if the name exceeds 22, then a "..." is placed after the shortened name!! Pretty cool. Thanks iiinetworks for helping with this!

 

Put this below $categories_string .= tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, $cPath_new) . '">';

 

$cat_length=22;

 

Then look for

 

$categories_string .= $tree[$counter]['name'];

 

And replace with

 

if (strlen($tree[$counter]['name'])>$cat_length) {
     $categories_string .= substr($tree[$counter]['name'], 0, $cat_length - 3). "...";
   }
else {
     $categories_string .= $tree[$counter]['name'];
   }

 

The "..." is good, that way if a cat name is cut short, it won't look confusing to the customer.

[Guest]

Do you know how to fix the product title limit. I seem to have the same problem you had however it's in product name.

 

Thanks

 

Paris

[quetzlcoatl]

Which page are you trying to modify? The product listing or product detail?

[Guest]

It's the product Title...

 

Lets say i sell computers well it's not the catagorie name or the description of the product but rather the title of the product.

 

Thank you

 

Paris

[quetzlcoatl]

If you want to limit the length of the product names everywhere on your site, you will have to edit in phpmyadmin and set the field length to a smaller number.

[Guest]

I was told that on one of my earlier post however i'm not sure what steps to take for this.

 

Isn't that the database area?

[quetzlcoatl]

You should either have a direct link to phpmyadmin in your hosting control panel, or a database management link with a phpmyadmin link there. Just select the database you are using, click on the table name, products_description. The field you need to edit is products_name, click "change" beside it and set a new number there.

 

Another way, if you wanted to limit the length on just the product listing, would be to modify the php code similar to what I did for the category names. That would be in either catalog/includes/modules/product_listing.php or catalog/index.php

[Guest]

I got it to work ;-)

 

Thank you for your help everyone, finally got it working..

 

 

Thanks

 

Paris