help needed to modify some php code

Hi,

I have this script and the meta descriptions for the products are the product title and the homepage meta tag, eg this is how my site looks in google for a product:

Werewolf 1/8th 50mph Brushless Rc Buggy <<<title>
3 May 2010 ... Werewolf 1/8th 50mph Brushless Rc Buggy, Electronic and Rc Toys - NitroWorld - Remote Control Hobby Models.

I want to keep the title of the product in the tag but the highlighted section above I want it to pull the first 150 characters or so from the actual product description so they're not all the same.

the php code i have is below which is from the index.php

// ---------- prod page
	case "product":
	$body->assign("META_TITLE",$row_product["prodName"]);
	$body->assign("META_KEYWORDS",$row_product["prodName"].', '.$row_product["prodBrand"].' '.$row_product["prodCategory"].', '.$configTitle['value']);
	$body->assign("META_DESCRIPTION",$row_product["prodName"].', '.$row_product["prodBrand"].' '.$row_product["prodCategory"].' - '.$configTitle['value']);
	$body->assign("PAGETITLE",'<h1>'.$row_product["prodName"].'</h1>');
		if (isset($_GET['savelink'])) {
		$body->assign("NOINDEXTAG",'<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />');
		}
	include("includes/singleproducts.inc.php");
	$body->assign("PRODS",$box_content);
	include("includes/comments.inc.php");
	$body->assign("COMMENTS",$box_content);
	include("includes/addcomments.inc.php");
	$body->assign("ADDCOMMENTS",$box_content);
	include("includes/compareproducts.inc.php");
	$body->assign("COMPAREPRODS",$box_content);
	include("includes/products.inc.php");
	$body->assign("SIMILARPRODS",$box_content);
	$body->assign("MIDSTYLE",'content-a');
	$body->assign("FLOATSTYLE",'content-float-right-a');
	$body->parse("body.sideNavRight");
	break;

PHP:

Any help would be very much appreciated, hope i've made my problem clear enough.

John

 

When you say 'pull', do you mean remove the first 150 characters or use them for the description?

something like:

$shortDescr = substr($row_product["prodDescr"], 0, 150);

Code (markup):

Then add that to the assign method.