Comments on: Language Override Plugin

By: Deon

Deon — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:56:55 +0000

Hi Steve,

Thank you for the plugin. I have been looking through and trying to find where to change the widget title of Friends’ activity. Any direction you might provide where to look through the code?

Thanks.

By: Matt Leifer

Matt Leifer — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:35:09 +0000

Indeed, I tried those combinations and nothing like that seems to work. Maintaining one en.php file isn’t too much of a big deal though, provided you are careful to comment which sections come from which plugins.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:34:01 +0000

Good to know! Thanks for that!

I agree with your thinking regarding languages functioning like views. I was poking around for anything that works along those lines, but I didn’t see anything.

I’d like to see something like:

languageoverride/languages/en.php
languageoverride/languages/groups/en.php
languageoverride/languages/blog/en.php

languageoverride/languages/en.php
languageoverride/languages/groups/languages/en.php
languageoverride/languages/blog/languages/en.php

much as we see in views. Again, since I didn’t see anything like it I assume it wouldn’t work.

By: Matt Leifer

Matt Leifer — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:19:04 +0000

This is a good idea and something I have already implemented on my site, but I wouldn’t recommend hacking plugin files too much because they are just as likely to be updated as the core.

You can override the en.php files of plugins by just appending the contents to the en.php file in the languageoverride plugin. Well, not the whole file, but just the bit that contains the array assignments. Then just make sure that languageoverride is below any plugins that you have overriden the language settings for in the loading order.

I think it would be better if languages worked a bit more like views where you could override individual files by placing them in an appropriate directory structure. Perhaps we can hope for this in future versions of elgg.