product title too long for cart module

Hi,

I am using variants with pretty long characteristic values. My products are named like "product name + characteristic name".
That is fine in general, also in the checkout process.

But I have displayed a cart module in a sidebar, that has only limited width. Therefore when I add a product to the cart, there is not enough space and e.g. the price is cut. Therefore I would need the cart to display the short product name only without the full characteristic text.

I there a way to display the "name only" of a product in the cart module, but remain the full name in the checkout cart?

Thank you,
kohypon

Hi Nicolas,

well that kind of solved it, but not very clean.

Maybe I should generally disable the product name to be added with the characteristic. I think I can remember, that there was a option for disabling the characteristic to be part of the product name. Unfortunately I cant find that option in Hikashop configuration.

Can you give me a hint, where this could be configured?

Hi,

I found the perfect solution for me. I added this function:

"function first_words($string, $num, $tail=' ...')
{
/** words into an array **/
$words = str_word_count($string, 2);

/*** get the first $num words ***/
$firstwords = array_slice( $words, 0, $num);

/** return words in a string **/
return implode(' ', $firstwords).$tail;
}
"

and made an echo like "echo first_words( $row->product_name, 2)"

This takes only the first two words (my product names itself allways contain two words) and kills the characteristics in the string.

Thank you,
kohypon

Another solution which I used for this was to edit the cart module view (cart file of product view) and change out product_name for product_code, so the cart displays my short code and I also modified the cart file of the checkout view so the checkout displays code > product name > ....everything else.