Adding a Phocamaps Plugin language file

[willson]

Wanting to change the text on the routing button I went through the exercise of figuring out how to add an es-ES language file.

Apparently plugin language files are not loaded by default in Joomla.

Some or all of the following might not have been necessary:

• Copied en-GB.plg_content_phocamaps.ini from administrator/languages/en-GB to es-ES and renamed it
• Modified a couple of the fields' texts
• Copied that also to /languages/es-ES for the front end
• Modified plugins/content/phocamaps.xml (in the frontend only so far) to add
  <language tag="es-ES">language/es-ES/es-ES.plg_content_phocamaps.ini</language> inside <languages> and <administration><languages>
• Modified plugins/content/phocamaps.php to add JPugin::loadLanguage

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  			$paramsC	 	= new JParameter( $table->params );
  			$tmpl			= array();
  			
  	// add language loading (also changed XML) 
  			JPlugin::loadLanguage( 'plg_content_phocamaps' );
  		
  			if (!JComponentHelper::isEnabled('com_phocamaps', true)) {
  				JText::_('Phoca Maps Plugin requires Phoca Maps Component');
  				return true;
  			}
  

That seemed to do the trick for at least the front end.

It probably would have been enough to load the com_phocamaps component language file instead of making a new one for the plugin and not modify the XML file. But, hey, it's a start.

If there's a better/correct/elegant solution out there I'd love to hear about it.

[Jan]

Hi, yes there is such problem

Did you tried to load the language pack into both destinations (manually)

administrator/languages/your-LANG/
languages/your-LANG/

I didn't try it but maybe plugin takes the language file from other place

[willson]

Yes first I manually put the language files in administrator/languages and /languages but doing only that didn't have any effect.
Then I did the JPlugin::loadLanguage change and that is what seemed to make it work.
Probably my modification to the XML files was not necessary but I cannot be certain because I did that at the same time and have not backed out that change yet.

It seems that the JPlugin::loadLanguage is the key here because, I have read somewhere, that language files are not loaded by default for plugins.

[Jan]

Ok, thank you for the information, maybe we need to wait until this will be fixed in Joomla!, maybe there is some other problem

[TopCop]

Jan,

does this mean we can not change the language for the plugin at the moment?
I'd need a German version for my page ....

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[Jan]

Hi, just try it, try to upload the language files to:

administrator/language/de-DE/
language/de-DE/
maybe it will work

[TopCop]

OK, I'll have a try.
What file do I have to copy exactly?
The en-GB.plg_content_phocamaps.ini?


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[willson]

I retried the whole scenario to find out the minimum changes I had to do to add Spanish language:

• Copy en-GB.plg_content_phocamaps.ini to the /language/es-ES folder
• Rename the file to es-ES.plg_content_phocamaps.ini
• Edit the file to put in the language strings you need
• Add

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  // add language loading 
           JPlugin::loadLanguage( 'plg_content_phocamaps' );

  just before
  if (!JComponentHelper::isEnabled('com_phocamaps', true)) {
  of
  /plugins/content/phocamaps.php; someplace around line 55 in the current version of phocamaps (1.0.3).

This procedure is for modifying the plugin only. It does not change the component; which would require a different procedure.
If you reinstall/upgrade the phocamaps plugin you would have to redo the code modification.

That's it.
Short version of the instructions: create the new language file; add a call to the language file to the phocamaps plugin code.

The code modification appears to be needed because of Joomla!'s default handling of languages for plugins.

Note: This change was made on a site that does not use Joom!Fish or any other multiple-language component. It is one language only; Spanish.

Edit: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p ... 2#p1386982 says

You need to manually load the translations for plugins using

$this->loadLanguage( );

in the plugins constructor.

So that might be an even better code modification - which I've not tried yet.

[TopCop]

Thank you very much for your instructions.
Anyway, I'm running my page in GErman and English. Therefore I have JoomFish installed.
Tried to do it the way you described, but I still get everything in English.

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[willson]

Ah, I see, a different setup. I'm running one language (Spanish) only.

Just an idea, since my Joom!Fish based site doesn't yet have Phocamaps on it so I can't check/test, is that in JF Control Panel you might need a "Content Element" for the Phocamaps component (see http://www.joomfish.net/en/documentatio ... t-elements ). Phocagallery has one and Phocamaps probably needs one to work with Joom!Fish.