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Adding rich text and images to the short description

I needed to add symbols to the browse page without exposing the Detailed Description which is long and tedious. The symbols were for a set of watches and were things like waterproof, shockproof etc.

A one line change gives you an editor for the short description.

In Virtuemart ,in /html/product.product_form.php around line 294 find;

<textarea class="inputbox" name="product_s_desc" id="short_desc" cols="55" rows="16" >
<?php echo $db->sf("product_s_desc"); ?></textarea>

and replace it with:

<?php editorArea( 'editor1', htmlspecialchars( $db->sf("product_s_desc"), ENT_QUOTES ), 
'product_s_desc', '550', '300', '55', '25' ) ?>

When you enter a new product you will see the editor in the space of the Short Desc. This allows quick image insertion - dependent on the editor you use of course!

Comments

Thanks

thanks for the tip - wored great!
You do have to change the database field to "text" though, or it doesn't save more than 256 characters

Thursday 14 January 2010, 02:46

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David

I've made this mod and it works great (VirtueMart 1.1.4)

But as a novice, how do you change the database field to "text"? That's the bit I haven't managed to figure out.

Thanks.

Tuesday 06 July 2010, 15:06

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