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[renee]

I'm just wondering if it is possible to have a text area that shows a limited number of characters or words?

 

It's for the teaser view of a blog type catalog template. If someone can't be bothered to edit down a section of text for the teaser intro I'd like them to be able to paste the full description text area and know that just the first X characters would show.

 

Even better than that would be if the teaser text had content then it showed but if it was empty it defaulted to X characters from the main description instead.

 

Any ideas on whether either scenario is possible natively or by customisation?

[Sliapy]

You can see the example of such limitation in this file \media\zoo\applications\jbuniversal\templates\catalog\renderer\item\blog\feed.php
 

$desc = JString::trim(strip_tags($this->renderPosition('description')));
$descArr = explode(' ', $desc);
$descArr_tmp = array();

foreach ($descArr as $word) {
    $word = JString::trim($word);
    if ($word) {
        $descArr_tmp[] = $word;
    }
}

if (count($descArr_tmp) > 30) {
    $descArr_tmp = array_slice($descArr_tmp, 0, 30);
    echo implode(' ', $descArr_tmp) . ' ...';
} else {
    echo implode(' ', $descArr_tmp);
}

"description" is the position with the textarea
 
"30" is the number of words

[renee]

Thanks Sliapy - is this limitation imposed on the element irrespective of which view it is in (Teaser, Full etc) or can it be imposed just for one view.  It looks as though thee example above would just apply to the feed view. If so I could use just a single description field and restrict the amount of words for just the teaser view - if not it's two separate fields. But either can work.

Also thanks for replying on Christmas day - and Merry Christmas!

[Sliapy]

You can use it in any template - Full, Teaser - it doesn't matter.

 

Also, you can use one element (textarea) in both templates (Full and Teaser).

 

For example, in the Teaser template you can set it to the Anons position and the code in the \media\zoo\applications\jbuniversal\templates\catalog\renderer\item\*slug of the your type*\teaser.php will be 

$desc = JString::trim(strip_tags($this->renderPosition('anons')));

And in Full template you set the same element to the Text position and don't use this limitation code.

Edited by Sliapy, 25 December 2013 - 20:51.