Can't find 3 instances of Friends to change: Your Friends Online Friends Add as friend in English GB language
By Randall McCallum on Friday, 21 March 2014
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Anyone have any suggestions as to how to locate some language strings in EasySocial - so I can change the last three strings. It's four instances, as I can also see Friends within the popup when hovering over an Avatar still shows that it has the text friends.

I have been busy the past two days in my efforts to change all instances of Friend, Friends, friend, and friends to Connection, Connections. connection, connections on my site and I am stuck with a bit of an oddity in that I can't seem to locate the following sidebar instances of the word friends

1. Left sidebar EasySocial - EasySocial ยป Dashboard These three items I can't find with searching in the language override for:



Popup of Avatar still shows that it has the text friends in it and I need to change this instance also.
Screencast: http://screencast.com/t/BBh6tPee5Hm

I spent almost two days changing every instance of friend, friends, Friend and Friends in the language Override section of Joomla. I do a Search for each of the three text strings I want to change, and I have changed all the results I can locate with my searches in the language search area (both value and Constant, and I have changed and saved them all, and still the following three (actually four) items do not change on my site: ????? No sure why, or where else I can look to change them.

Left Sidebar: Your Friends Only one instance of Your Friends comes up in search - COM_EASYSOCIAL_TOOLBAR_YOUR_FRIENDS Your Friends <----- I have changed Your Friends to Your Connections but this does not seem to make any change on the sidebar. I do a Browser refresh and everything. No change. I can't find any other instance of this string at all.

I have changed all of the searched results to change friend or friends to connection or connections. So I changed them all and still no change to the sidebar for Your Friends.
Search Results
COM_EASYSOCIAL_TOOLBAR_YOUR_FRIENDS
Your Friends
COM_EASYSOCIAL_FRIENDS_LIST_FORM_USERS_NOTE
Select one or more of your friends to be included in this list.
COM_EASYSOCIAL_FRIENDS_LIST_FORM_USERS_PLACEHOLDER
Start typing your friends name ...
COM_EASYSOCIAL_FRIENDS_LIST_FORM_SET_AS_DEFAULT_LIST
Set this as the default list for all your friends.
COM_EASYSOCIAL_FRIENDS_PLEASE_ENTER_NAMES
Please enter your friends name in the textbox provided.
COM_EASYSOCIAL_FRIENDS_NOT_FRIEND_YET
Sorry, the user is not one of your friends.
COM_EASYSOCIAL_FRIENDS_EXCEEDED_LIMIT
You have exceeded your friends limit.
COM_EASYSOCIAL_FRIENDS_EXCEEDED_DIALOG_DESC
Sorry, but you have already exceeded your friends limit. Please contact the site administrator to upgrade your account.
COM_EASYSOCIAL_LISTS_CREATE_HEADING_DESC
Group your friends in your lists.
COM_EASYSOCIAL_LISTS_ADD_FRIENDS_DESC
Add your friends by typing their names here.

Left Sidebar: Online Friends I have searched for Online Friends and there are no instances of it as a value or Constant. The text string is nowhere to be found.

Search Results
No matching texts found

Left Sidebar: Suggestions - Add as friend button

I have changed all instances of friend to connection, and the left Sidebar button in Suggestions does not change. It remains as: Add as friend
Search Results
COM_EASYBLOG_ADD_FRIEND
Add as friend
COM_EASYSOCIAL_FRIENDS_ADD_AS_FRIEND
Add as friend
COM_EASYSOCIAL_ADD_FRIEND_BUTTON
Add As Friend
COM_EASYSOCIAL_PROFILE_POPOVER_ADD_AS_FRIEND
Add As Friend

Anyone have any suggestions it would be appreciated to find these three instances so I can change them on my site.

Thanks,

Randall
Thanks Randall.
Mark
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Monday, 24 March 2014 01:20
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Hello Randall,

The "Friends" in the popbox is actually from the theme file /components/com_easysocial/themes/wireframe/profile/popbox.php and it's located at line 38,



		<li>

			<div class="popbox-item-info">

				<a href="<?php echo FRoute::friends( array( 'userid' => $user->getAlias() ) );?>">

					<div class="popbox-item-text">

						<?php echo JText::_( 'COM_EASYSOCIAL_FRIENDS' );?>

					</div>

					<div class="popbox-item-total"><?php echo $user->getTotalFriends();?></div>

				</a>

			</div>

		</li>


It's actually using COM_EASYSOCIAL_FRIENDS
Mark
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Friday, 21 March 2014 12:32
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I found the Friend in the Popup box and changed it to Connections. Must have missed that one last night.

Thanks Mark.

As for the other items:

Your friends

Online friends

Add as friend button.

Are they in the this location: Administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_app_user_friends.ini

If found the instances of what I have been looking for in this file: en-GB.plg_app_user_friends.ini

APP_FRIENDS_YOUR_FRIENDS="Your Friends"
APP_FRIENDS_NO_FRIENDS_CURRENTLY="No friends currently."
APP_FRIENDS_ONLINE_FRIENDS="Online Friends"
APP_FRIENDS_NO_ONLINE_FRIENDS_CURRENTLY="No friends online currently"
APP_FRIENDS_SUGGEST_FRIENDS="Suggestions"
APP_FRIENDS_SUGGEST_FRIENDS_NO_FRIENDS_SUGGESTION="No suggestions available"
APP_FRIENDS_SUGGEST_FRIENDS_VIEW_ALL="View All"
APP_FRIENDS_SUGGEST_FRIENDS_ADD_FRIEND="Add as friend"
APP_FRIENDS_SUGGEST_FRIENDS_MUTUAL_COUNT_SINGULAR="%1s mutual friend"
APP_FRIENDS_SUGGEST_FRIENDS_MUTUAL_COUNT_PLURAL="%1s mutual friends"

If so, how do I crate the language override? Clarification please.

Do I create a new file in the Overrides folder in area and name it to: en-GB.plg_app_user_friends.ini

Then copy all the contents of the original file en-GB.plg_app_user_friends.ini into the file in the override folder file: en-GB.plg_app_user_friends.ini

Then change all instances of friend or Friend to connection and Connections

Is this how it is done?

Thanks for any assistance to override these last remaining items.

Randall
Randall McCallum
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Saturday, 22 March 2014 10:51
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Hello Randall,

Here's a simple guide http://stackideas.com/blog/how-to-override-joomla-language-strings
Mark
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Saturday, 22 March 2014 14:42
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Thanks Mark,

I'll be referencing this Guide to make another guide Lesson Tutorial.
Randall McCallum
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Monday, 24 March 2014 00:18
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Thanks Randall You are awesome!
Mark
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Sunday, 27 April 2014 03:37
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