I would like to make longer product description

Hi,
I would like to make longer product descriptions. Unfortunatelly opencart cut the end of my product description. I need extra long text field. How can I modify it?
Thank you for help,

Are you sure Opencart cut the end off? You can have a really long product description with Opencart, as you can see here in the demo:
http://demo.opencart.com/index.php?rout ... uct_id=100

Yes, Opencart cut off end of description. My description text is more longer (3x - 4x) or than you can see in demo. I would like to list all devices what my product support.

You'd need to change the "TEXT" field in the database to "LONGTEXT" using phpmyadmin in your cpanel
But I don't recommend it. Better instead to include a txt file with all the devices that people can't choose to view

Thank you,

My issue was same.

I found another option how show longer desc. in catalog page.

Open folder : catalog/controller/product/
Edit file: category.php

arround line 186 found this: And replace no.: 100 (showed characters on this catalog page).
I'm using value 200
I hope that it's useful.

yes it's really helpful. I have used your way and it works well.
But there is one more problem, if i set the product list image size 90x90, the product grid image size is also changed to 90x90px, this is not good. What I want is, set list image 90x90 and display a longer description. Set grid image size 120x120, it looks more pretty.

Is there a way to set the list image size & grid image size separately???

orieszkowicz wrote: Open folder : catalog/controller/product/
Edit file: category.php

arround line 186 found this:

Code: Select all

'description' => substr(strip_tags(html_entity_decode($result['description'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')), 0, 100) . '..',

And replace no.: 100 (showed characters on this catalog page).
I'm using value 200

This worked very well for me, I used the value 300, and that was a perfect fit for my application. Thank you!

orieszkowicz wrote:My issue was same.

I found another option how show longer desc. in catalog page.

Open folder : catalog/controller/product/
Edit file: category.php

arround line 186 found this:

Code: Select all

'description' => substr(strip_tags(html_entity_decode($result['description'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')), 0, 100) . '..',

And replace no.: 100 (showed characters on this catalog page).
I'm using value 200

Code: Select all

'description' => substr(strip_tags(html_entity_decode($result['description'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')), 0, 200) . '..',

I hope that it's useful.

That did it for me, thank you.

sully210 wrote:

orieszkowicz wrote:My issue was same.

I found another option how show longer desc. in catalog page.

Open folder : catalog/controller/product/
Edit file: category.php

arround line 186 found this:

Code: Select all

'description' => substr(strip_tags(html_entity_decode($result['description'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')), 0, 100) . '..',

And replace no.: 100 (showed characters on this catalog page).
I'm using value 200

Code: Select all

'description' => substr(strip_tags(html_entity_decode($result['description'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')), 0, 200) . '..',

I hope that it's useful.

That did it for me, thank you.

Don't forget to change the "search.php" in the same folder of 'catalog/controller/product' around line 256. A resulting search of the product will still have the truncated 100..