Re: OK, here's a new one

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2002


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 45492
interpreted = N
texte = Where I've used it in the past I've done[getchars start=1&end=30][description][/getchars]...Hoping the ... will give the indication that it's been cropped. I wonder if there's a way of using it in conjunction with listwords to break at a space.Regards, Tim -- Tim Robinson IDFK Web Developments tim@idfk.com.au 114a/40 Yeo Street Neutral Bay 2089 Australia Phone +612 9908 2134 Fax +612 9908 4837> From: WJ Starck > Reply-To: (WebCatalog Talk) > Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:03:06 -0600 > To: (WebCatalog Talk) > Subject: Re: OK, here's a new one > > Alain and Gary... > > Yeah, I thought of that, but [getchars] will give me partial words. > Might be a lesser of two evils, I suppose... > > -Will > > On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 03:52 PM, Gary Krockover wrote: > >> I've used this in similar instances: >> >> [getchars >> start=1&end=30][description][/getchars].... >> >> GK >> >> >> | Our site lists 6 products on the home page that are specials. >> | >> | A table is generated by search. Each cell in this table is another >> | table that looks like so: >> | >> | >> | ____________________ >> | | | | >> | | | T | >> | | P |___________| >> | | | | >> | | | D | >> | |_______|____________| >> | >> | Where P is the product image, T is the Title of the Product and D is >> a >> | text description of varying length. Right now this mostly works fine, >> | and what I've done with the text description is to use [listwords] to >> | reel of the first 15 words of the description, like so: >> | >> | [listwords words=[description]&delimiters= ][showif >> | [index]<16][word][/showif] [/listwords]... >> | >> | This is OK, except for one thing. Since words are of differing >> lengths, >> | some descriptions end up longer than others, and it ends up looking >> | crappy visually. What I'd like to do is to parse enough text of each >> | description that each D box is essentially filled. >> | >> | I suppose I could fix the height of the box and fiddle with the >> number >> | of words parsed, but I was wondering of there was a spiffier way. I'm >> | wracking my brain here. Anyone with some ideas? >> | >> | TAM, >> | >> | -Will >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >> the mailing list . >> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >> >> Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: OK, here's a new one (Rob Marquardt 2002)
  2. Re: OK, here's a new one (Robert Wade 2002)
  3. Re: OK, here's a new one (Chris List Recipient 2002)
  4. Re: OK, here's a new one (Gary Krockover 2002)
  5. Re: OK, here's a new one (WJ Starck 2002)
  6. Re: OK, here's a new one (Dan Strong 2002)
  7. Re: OK, here's a new one (Tim Robinson 2002)
  8. Re: OK, here's a new one (WJ Starck 2002)
  9. Re: OK, here's a new one (Gary Krockover 2002)
  10. Re: OK, here's a new one (Alain Russell 2002)
  11. OK, here's a new one (WJ Starck 2002)
Where I've used it in the past I've done[getchars start=1&end=30][description][/getchars]...Hoping the ... will give the indication that it's been cropped. I wonder if there's a way of using it in conjunction with listwords to break at a space.Regards, Tim -- Tim Robinson IDFK Web Developments tim@idfk.com.au 114a/40 Yeo Street Neutral Bay 2089 Australia Phone +612 9908 2134 Fax +612 9908 4837> From: WJ Starck > Reply-To: (WebCatalog Talk) > Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:03:06 -0600 > To: (WebCatalog Talk) > Subject: Re: OK, here's a new one > > Alain and Gary... > > Yeah, I thought of that, but [getchars] will give me partial words. > Might be a lesser of two evils, I suppose... > > -Will > > On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 03:52 PM, Gary Krockover wrote: > >> I've used this in similar instances: >> >> [getchars >> start=1&end=30][description][/getchars].... >> >> GK >> >> >> | Our site lists 6 products on the home page that are specials. >> | >> | A table is generated by search. Each cell in this table is another >> | table that looks like so: >> | >> | >> | ____________________ >> | | | | >> | | | T | >> | | P |___________| >> | | | | >> | | | D | >> | |_______|____________| >> | >> | Where P is the product image, T is the Title of the Product and D is >> a >> | text description of varying length. Right now this mostly works fine, >> | and what I've done with the text description is to use [listwords] to >> | reel of the first 15 words of the description, like so: >> | >> | [listwords words=[description]&delimiters= ][showif >> | [index]<16][word][/showif] [/listwords]... >> | >> | This is OK, except for one thing. Since words are of differing >> lengths, >> | some descriptions end up longer than others, and it ends up looking >> | crappy visually. What I'd like to do is to parse enough text of each >> | description that each D box is essentially filled. >> | >> | I suppose I could fix the height of the box and fiddle with the >> number >> | of words parsed, but I was wondering of there was a spiffier way. I'm >> | wracking my brain here. Anyone with some ideas? >> | >> | TAM, >> | >> | -Will >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >> the mailing list . >> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >> >> Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Tim Robinson

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