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How to restrict rows in ItemLongDescription in search results page.

Thread began 6/05/2011 5:59 am by richard412075 | Last modified 6/07/2011 5:18 am by richard412075 | 3581 views | 12 replies

6/05/2011 2:33 pmCraigRBeta Tester

Hi, sorry for the delay in replying.

I think I understand, you have a field called itemlongdesc which contains a long text string, which you want to shorten , so it appears in 5 lines in the space provided. ?

There is a php function called strlen which you can use to return a partial string, which may give you what you want.

You may need a bit of trial and error to get it to fit to 5 lines.

I also have a function to trim a partial word from a string, which makes it look a bit neater, when you add the ...more ellipsis

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