How truncate the description?

[goodweb]

In my index.php , the description is too long!

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How truncate it?

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I want to truncate it,like this:

[AshDigg]

Depends on your version... if you're using one with the templates folder, open link_summary.tpl and search for

<p>{$story_content}</p>

and replace with

<p>{$story_content|truncate:200}</p>

[goodweb]

Hello AshDigg.
Thanks a lot!

[goodweb]

Hello AshDigg.

In http://mysite.com/index.php,the short description is ok.

But,in http://mysite.com/story/**/,the full description can't see.

[pptuu]

show u site. i want see more details,than i can say

[boofme]

if you change this:

{/if}

{if $viewtype eq "full"}
<p class="news-body-text">{$story_content}</p>
{/if}

to this:

{/if}

{if $viewtype eq "full"}
<p class="news-body-text">{$story_content|truncate:200}</p>
{/if}

it will also truncate the text when you open the story.

I dont think its very useful there.

[Book-Bee]

I agree. It's be awesome to be able to truncate the stories in the line up, but it's got to show the whole story on the individual story page. Maybe when I get some time I'll see if I can figure out how to do that. For now I need to get the site presentable. :)

[Yankidank]

We were discussing having different templates for individual post urls. This should allow you to truncate anything thats on a front page story, but show the hole description on the individual story page.

[gragland]

Originally Posted by Yankidank

We were discussing having different templates for individual post urls. This should allow you to truncate anything thats on a front page story, but show the hole description on the individual story page.

Is this feature coming soon? Before I launch my site I need to be able to have frontpage/queued story descriptions truncated, and have full descrptions on the individual post URLs.

[hevnsnt]

I think it should just be done the way joomla handles it.. THere is a box for a short description, and a box for extended text. You could limit the first box to say 200 char, and then have a much higher limit on the extended text.

Just the short description box would show on the frontpage/queued stories, and if extended box had anything it it, it would show Read More (and the post url story would have full text)