How to add short description on product list?

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I swear I have looked for a while in the forum but didn't find the answer. I have looked carefully on the tutorial, documentation, topics and bug reports...

On my main product list page I would like to display a short description of each product. (before the add to cart button)
Didn't find any option in the settings.
Do I have to hack the display files?
Or is it because I'm running the Starter version?

Thanks.

This might help others. It does the trick.

I have added the little hack in the listing_img_title file between end of product name and product price.
it displays 175 caracters from the regular description and replace last space by '...' and Read More.
you can manage class 'shortdesc' has you want.

I'm not pro so the hack can certainly be improved.

<!-- description -->
<div class="shortdesc">
<?php 
   $maxLength = 175;
   $longDesc = $this->row->product_description;
 if (strlen($longDesc)>$maxLength){
         $longDesc = substr($longDesc, 0, $maxLength);
         $position_espace = strrpos($longDesc, " ");
         $longDesc = substr($longDesc, 0, $position_espace);
         $longDesc = $longDesc." ... ";
 }
    echo $longDesc;                                                                
  	echo '<a href="'.$link.'">Read more</a>';
  ?>  
</div>
<!-- EO description -->

hi there,

Im trying but didn´t get any result yet, just to confirm, you said in the liting_img_title but... from product, right?

cheers

Hi,

Yes from product. But are you sure that you are using the "image and title" display type ?
You can check that in your menu / module settings.

www.hikashop.com/support/support/documen...ize-the-display.html

naranjacuatro:

/components/com_hikashop/views/product/tmpl

Hello! thanks a lot for answering so fast, I changed it but it doesn´t change anything...

I have "read more" enable in the shop, and a read more line in my product description...

is there anything else that needs to be changed? or just that...?
cheers!

Hi there!
I got it now! ^_^

Just one last question... is there anything I can do in that file just to get image 2 more similar to image 1?
like... image to the left.. name and short description in the center and price to the right?

Because squares in image 2 are too big.. :-/

thanks a lot for your help

but in that case "short description" is not shown... u^_^

thanks! I´ll follow those steps

Phil wrote: This might help others. It does the trick.

I have added the little hack in the listing_img_title file between end of product name and product price.
it displays 175 caracters from the regular description and replace last space by '...' and Read More.
you can manage class 'shortdesc' has you want.

I'm not pro so the hack can certainly be improved.

<!-- description -->
<div class="shortdesc">
<?php 
   $maxLength = 175;
   $longDesc = $this->row->product_description;
 if (strlen($longDesc)>$maxLength){
         $longDesc = substr($longDesc, 0, $maxLength);
         $position_espace = strrpos($longDesc, " ");
         $longDesc = substr($longDesc, 0, $position_espace);
         $longDesc = $longDesc." ... ";
 }
    echo $longDesc;                                                                
  	echo '<a href="'.$link.'">Read more</a>';
  ?>  
</div>
<!-- EO description -->

<!-- description-->
<div class="shortdesc">
<?php 
   $maxLength = 90;
   $longDesc = $this->row->product_description;
 if (strlen($longDesc)>$maxLength){
         $longDesc = substr($longDesc, 0, $maxLength);
         $position_espace = strrpos($longDesc, " ");
         $longDesc = substr($longDesc, 0, $position_espace);
         $longDesc = $longDesc." ... ";
 }
    echo $longDesc;                                                                

  ?> 

</div>