how to show product description in cart?

Any help please I need to know how to show product description in cart at checkout?

Anybody could help?

Hey,

Are you wanting to show a small snippet of the product description in the cart, or the entire thing?


Joel.

Hi Joel,

Thanks for your reply, if to show small snippet it might be better for using less resources. How is that possible? And if I need to show everything how is possible?

Hey,

In system / library / cart.php
Find: Add After: In catalog / controller / checkout / cart.php
Find: Add After (Whole Description): Or Add After (400 Character Snippet): Find: Add After (Whole Description): Or Add After (400 Character Snippet): In catalog / view / theme / <your theme> / template / checkout / cart.tpl
Find: Before Add: I've also added a horizontal line <hr> between the description and product options so they are visibly separated.

Just a quick note that adding the descriptions will throw off the table column widths a little, but this can be fixed by changing
In catalog / view / theme / <your theme> / template / checkout / cart.tpl
Find: Replace With: All of these changes can be found in the attached vQmod. Just remove whatever features you don't need.

*EDIT - The most up-to-date version of this vQmod can be found here:
My Site: http://opencartaddons.com/product-description-in-cart
OpenCart: http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... on_id=4682

This mod should work on any OpenCart v1.5.x, but it has only been tested with v1.5.1.3.

The final result should look similar to this: Cheers,
Joel.

OpenCart Addons wrote:Hey,

In system / library / cart.php
Find:

Code: Select all

'name'            => $product_query->row['name'],

Add After:

Code: Select all

'description'            => $product_query->row['description'],

In catalog / controller / checkout / cart.php
Find:

Code: Select all

'name'     => $product['name'],

Add After (Whole Description):

Code: Select all

'description'     => htmlspecialchars_decode($product['description']),

Or Add After (400 Character Snippet):

Code: Select all

'description'     => htmlspecialchars_decode(substr($product['description'],0,400)) . '...',

Find:

Code: Select all

'name'     => $result['name'],

Add After (Whole Description):

Code: Select all

'description'     => htmlspecialchars_decode($result['description']),

Or Add After (400 Character Snippet):

Code: Select all

'description'     => htmlspecialchars_decode(substr($result['description'],0,400)) . '...',

In catalog / view / theme / <your theme> / template / checkout / cart.tpl
Find:

Code: Select all

<?php foreach ($product['option'] as $option) { ?>

Before Add:

Code: Select all

<small><?php echo strip_tags($product['description']); ?></small>
<hr align="center" />

I've also added a horizontal line <hr> between the description and product options so they are visibly separated.

Just a quick note that adding the descriptions will throw off the table column widths a little, but this can be fixed by changing
In catalog / view / theme / <your theme> / template / checkout / cart.tpl
Find:

Code: Select all

<td class="remove"><?php echo $column_remove; ?></td>
              <td class="image"><?php echo $column_image; ?></td>
              <td class="name"><?php echo $column_name; ?></td>
              <td class="model"><?php echo $column_model; ?></td>
              <td class="quantity"><?php echo $column_quantity; ?></td>
              <td class="price"><?php echo $column_price; ?></td>
              <td class="total"><?php echo $column_total; ?></td>

Replace With:

Code: Select all

 <td class="remove" width="50px"><?php echo $column_remove; ?></td>
              <td class="image"><?php echo $column_image; ?></td>
              <td class="name"><?php echo $column_name; ?></td>
              <td class="model" width="75px"><?php echo $column_model; ?></td>
              <td class="quantity" width="75px"><?php echo $column_quantity; ?></td>
              <td class="price" width="75px"><?php echo $column_price; ?></td>
              <td class="total" width="75px"><?php echo $column_total; ?></td>

All of these changes can be found in the attached vQmod. Just remove whatever features you don't need.

This mod should work on any OpenCart v1.5.x, but it has only been tested with v1.5.1.3.

The final result should look similar to this:

cart_view.jpg

Cheers,
Joel.

Thank you for your support and extension

Joel, please, I need your help.

The product option appears in cart like that: - option1: Intel Core 2 Duo pr..
How to show the entire text, like that: - option1: Intel Core 2 Duo processor Powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo

Thank you very much.

Hi,

any Idea how to show the product description in OC 1.5.5.1?