Hot deals block - length of truncated product name

General General Questions
1

Please see attached screenshot of the hot deals block. Can anyone tell me what is controlling the length of the truncated product name? I would ideally like it at least twice as long.



In addons/hot_deals_block/blocks/hot_deals.tpl I have found:





but the “truncate:50” seems to govern the length of the alternative text if a product image is missing but I’m not sure. I can’t find what’s affecting the product name at all.



Thanks

hot deals block.jpg

2

Anyone???

3

Seems like you got it. Not sure why you are afraid to try. Set 50 to 150, save, clear cache, refresh…

4

Thanks. Actually I did try that (and other figures) in hot_deals.tpl and although I could shorten the text I couldn’t lengthen it (which is what was puzzling me).



Mainly by luck I have just found the solution. In hot_deals.tpl there is:



{script src=“addons/hot_deals_block/js/jquery.deals.js”}



I found that javascript file and altered line 283 which said

var len = 24;

to

var len = 48;



Customers can now see the name of the product which helps!

5

Hmm, in other places to remove the shortened text for full size I edited product_data.tpl around line 28



```php



{capture name=“name_$obj_id”}

{if $show_name}

{$product.product|unescape}

{elseif $show_trunc_name}

{{$product.product|unescape|truncate:45:“…”:true}}

{$product.product|unescape}

{/if}

{/capture}



```



Original line is in {**} and new one right below

6

Thank you. I did a search for “truncate” inside the skins directory and found numerous files. This helped me find the file for product titles (as opposed to sidebar links).