RSS Feed Question

[MrGForce +]

I'm fairly new to 68c and am just getting into the RSS Feed Issue, and have a question.

And I do have Mike's ... Using the RSS Feed ... publication.

When bringing up RSS feeds, ( ie7 and 8 show them in the browser very nice), each listing displays the entire description field info. Is this normal, or is it because I don't use the "Short Description" field?

And if this is the case, does anyone know if there is a way, or know of a way to display only up to so many description field characters with maybe dots after that to indicate that there are more words available?

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

I haven't tested this, but it should work. In the external.php file around line 144 find this:

PHP Code:

$listing['description'] = Filter::nonTagHtmlEntities($listing['description']); 


Right after that insert this line:
$listing['description'] = substr_replace(($listing['description']), '...', 50, -1);

Replace the 50 with however many characters that you want to display of the description in your feed.

[MrGForce +]

Thank you again Mike, and just as always, you're right on the mark. It's perfect.