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Truncate Text

truncate($STRING, $LENGTH); ?>

Ways to print attributes

• this should work for drop downs and multi-select

getAttributeText('attribute_name'); ?>

• this should work for text fields

getAttributeName(); ?>

• this should work for text areas

productAttribute($_product, nl2br($_product->getAttributeName()), 'attribute_name') ?>

• this is another possible method

htmlEscape($_product->getData('attribute_name')); ?>

custom list.phtml

put this in local.xml where the '3' is the category ID

<CATEGORY_3>
    <reference name="product_list">
        <action method="setTemplate"><name>catalog/product/software.phtml</name></action>
    </reference>
</CATEGORY_3>

Media Images

When you have the stupid white frame rendering with images and you want to get rid of it. Add the following snippet just before the ->resize() call in the list.phtml or view.phtml.

->keepFrame(false)