JoomailerChimp not shortening K2 articles to intro text

I'm using K2 and my members are able to write article and contribute to the site's blog. They generally put the whole article in the content tab and let K2 automatically shorten it on the homepage (meaning they dont specifically put they're own read more link in).

So when i send out the newsletter, the content is the full article with no pictures. Is there any way to fix this and get Joomailer to shorten the article like K2 does?

Hi ,

I've just posted a similar message, I notice you haven't had a reply though. Did you manage to find out how to do this?

Thanks

Mark

Hi guys,

This feature is currently not on our todo list so I'll provide instructions how to solve in the meantime.

You have to edit the file /administrator/components/com_joomailermailchimpintegration/controllers/create.php

Scroll down to the very end. Above the closing curly brackets where it says "}// class" enter the following function:

Then replace line 308 and 1324 with this code:
(These line numbers refer to version 1.5.4)

The 300 means the function will count 300 characters and cut off the text at the next following point and then attach three points.

Please keep in mind that after each joomailer upgrade you will have to apply this patch again!

Let me know if this is what you're looking for and if not, why

Kind regards,
Pete

Hi Pete
Thanks so much for this patch - just implemented and it's working beautifully You saved the day!!
I've just made another post regarding inserting k2 item images along with intro text k2 images - do you have any ideas how I could achieve this?

Thanks again
Emily

I've just send myself a test message and noticed that in k2 items my text is truncated in the middle of a hyperlink. This means that the readmore link is not displaying correctly. I've been looking for a way to alter the truncate function to fix or strip broken html. I found this which looks promising - but not sure how to implement in the Pete's patch...

Any suggestions?
Cheers
Emily

Did some more searching and think I've found a way to fix it. Instead of
I used
Seems to be working so far.

Hi,

I've used this code before to shorten the K2 articles but I have just upgraded Joomlamailer to version 1.7 and made these changes above and it doesn't seem to be working, any ideas?

Thanks

Mark

Hi,

Could anyone help me with the above problem?? I have upgraded to the latest version and I don't think the code suggested previously works now, can you please confirm?

Thank you
Mark

Hello Mrk,

I have no idea why it wouldn't work with the new version except the line numbers where you have to adjust the code have changed. However, please download the attached file, extract it and upload the file create.php to your server to the directory: /administrator/components/com_joomailermailchimpintegration/controllers

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