Moving Short Description Text into Long Description Area On Product Page

Question

I'm attempting to move my product's SHORT description into my long description, without merging the two during import. I attempted to move the following code into my description.phtml file, but it just breaks the page at the description area.

<?php if ($_product->getShortDescription()):?>
    <div class="short-description">
        <div class="std"><?php echo $_helper->productAttribute($_product, nl2br($_product->getShortDescription()), 'short_description') ?></div>
    </div>
<?php endif;?>

Any idea how to effectively move the short description to just above the main description area? Do I need to do anything with the XML code?

Answer 1

Put below code at very top of the file app\design\frontend\[package]\[theme]\template\catalog\product\view\description.phtml.

<?php
    $_helper = $this->helper('catalog/output');
    $_product = $this->getProduct();
?>
<?php if ($_product->getShortDescription()):?>
    <div class="short-description">
        <div class="std"><?php echo $_helper->productAttribute($_product, nl2br($_product->getShortDescription()), 'short_description') ?></div>
    </div>
<?php endif;?>

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You are done. For full reference of the modified file, you can refer this.

Answer 2

Add your code inside the description if statement in the product/view.phtml file

<?php if ($_product->getDescription()):?>
    //my short description code
<?php endif;?>