How to set the number of chars in intro text before truncate

Chi-K

Hi, How to set the number of chars in intro text before truncate on the home page first leading article. Also even if you put 10 words, the last word will ALWAYS be cut off and truncated.

saguaros

Chi-K

The homepage has menu item type of Featured articles, so you can open this file:

/templates/ja_magz_ii/html/com_content/featured/default_fetured.php

Look for this snippet of code:

<?php 
  $this->item->introtext = substr(strip_tags($this->item->introtext), 0, 200);
  $this->item->introtext = substr($this->item->introtext, 0, strrpos($this->item->introtext, ' ')) . " ...";
  echo $this->item->introtext;
?>

and change the value of '200' to the number you wish.

Chi-K

If i do template update this will be overridden by update correct. Do you have a more permanent solution like overrides somewhere?

saguaros

Chi-K

You can copy file: /templates/ja_magz_ii/html/com_content/featured/default_fetured.php

To this folder:

/templates/ja_magz_ii/local/html/com_content/featured/default_fetured.php

Create this path for local folder if it doesn't exist now.

Chi-K

Also there is the problem it will ALWAYS truncate the last word regardless number of words. Like even if you put in "Hello world".. it will be come "Hello ..."

Chi-K

So copying any such files to this Local folder will prevent overwriting.

saguaros

Chi-K This local folder will keep your customization not be lost when you update new version of template 🙂