Hi,

You can actually directly do language override with Joomla's Language manager.

Thanks

Hi,

You're welcome.

Thanks but where would I go to find out the exact string I want to override ... there are a lot of EasySocial language files and I cant seem to find the one that allows me to change

Your Friends
Online Friends

in the side menu ..

Thanks

Hello Damian,

Other language strings can be found within apps / custom fields. In this case, you should be editing the friend app's language file, /administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_app_user_friends.ini

Good post for my question. I'm considering changing the FRIENDS value to something like ASSOCIATES. Problem is, you have about 175 different language constants that use the word friend. That's a LOT of overrides:)

I'm guessing from a quick glance at the code, there's no global feature for the "friend" value. THAT would be a great constant (friend, friends) instead of 175 different strings. Am I wrong, or do you have any suggestions of an easier way to change the word/concept of "friend"?

Hello Marco,

I don't think that it makes sense to have the "friends" word be a constant. It should be overriden via the language file

Well yah the overrides should be done via the language file. But what I mean is, right now you have about 175 constants like this: COM_EASYSOCIAL_TOOLBAR_YOUR_FRIENDS using the word friend. So if I wanted to change this from a Facebook type app to a professional network (associates instead of friends) then I have to make 175 overrides. Whereas, if there was some way to have a constant for FRIEND and FRIENDS, then I'd only have to make 2 overrides.

This is probably wrong because I dont really know much about .ini files, but I think you could do something like:

PHP here: echo JText::sprintf('COM_EASYSOCIAL_TOOLBAR_YOUR_FRIENDS', $Friend, $Dudes);

COM_EASYSOCIAL_TOOLBAR_YOUR_FRIENDS="Variables are: %s and %s";

...something like that. I dont know about code. But there's gotta be a way to do something like that? Anyway, this is super low priority as Im sure its probably 1/1000 people who dont want to use the word friend.

Hello Marco,

I think this would only complicate things even further because the idea of a language file is to maintain the ability to have multiple languages on a site. If you are going to store this term "friend" as a variable, there's no way to translate this again.

Can you not use PHP in the file? Like declare some variables

$friend = friend
$friend_plural = friends

COM_EASYSOCIAL_TOOLBAR_YOUR_FRIENDS = Your $friend_plural

Something like that, or some sort of mixin type principle in language files would make translations and modifications easier. Anyway, like I said this isn't a big issue, I was just curious.

Yes, that makes sense but all the language string is going to be extremely complicated. For instance,

JText::sprintf( 'SOME_TRANSLATION_FOR_FRIENDS' , JText::_( 'COM_EASYSOCIAL_FRIENDS' ) , $user->getName() );

And within SOME_TRANSLATION_FOR_FRIENDS , you have to define it as "You are now %1s with %2s . It makes translating much more difficult. Again, since this request is probably a very uncommon one, it can still be solved by overriding your translations