I want the read more link to only show if the article actually has a manually inserted readmore divider. Is there a way to do this?

Hi Ron,

Did you ever find a solution to this? I too have a client who has a ton of articles, some of them very short and some that have the "Read More" divider set within the content. I only want the read more to show IF there's a read more tag inserted.

The way it works now is that it's either show or not. Period.

Thanks!

A custom override will be needed to do this
you will need to search category_item.php for <?php if ($this->item->params->get('catItemReadMore')): ?>
Place a test for the existance of fulltext around it

I'm trying to do the same thing as the OP, and someone did post the override code on the old forum way back. I'm playing around in category_item.php, but I'll admit that PHP isn't my strongest point so I'm a little stuck in finding the right code myself.

I added another if statement inbetween the current block and tried replacing get('catItemReadMore') with all the ideas I had, and the closest I got was hiding it completely when an item actually has fulltext (which isn't very helpful as it's every time, i think).

I also tried adapting the if(!empty statement from the comments counter section, and while I didn't get very far I think if!empty might be where I'm falling down.

William - Could you please post a little code so I can get my head around where I'm going wrong please? Usually I'm OK with the smaller template overrides, but this one is just that little bit over my head.

Thanks in advance, and this is a pretty long winded post to ask a really simple question

Im sorry i dont have the code at the moment. I dont have access to the old posts either
The php empty will return results that may be misleading
Mabee you should test for the length php strlen and see if the length of the fulltext is greater than some amount.
I would start getting the syntax correct by reporting the srtlen to the screen in the override just after the readmore shows. If there is full text there should be a number there, then you can see what is returned if there is no fulltext.
next, put a if around the readmore code testing for the length > amount to display the readmore....endif

Here is the code from the default K2 template: