Language File Not Loading for System Plugin

[tomfuller]

I have upgraded several of my plugins to Joomla 1.6. The module and search plugin translate fine, but my system plugin jbspodcast does not.

The system strings do translate, but not the user strings contained in the xml file.

Example in xml:

    <field name="recipients" type="text" default="" size="80" label="PLG_JBSPODCAST_TO_EMAIL" description="PLG_JBSPODCAST_TO_EMAIL_DESC" />

In en-GB.plg_system_jbspodcast.ini:

PLG_JBSPODCAST_TO_EMAIL="To Email address(s)"

How I load the language in the jbspodcast.php:

 public function __construct(& $subject, $config)
        {
 
                parent::__construct($subject, $config);
 
                $this->loadLanguage();
                $this->loadLanguage('com_biblestudy',JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR);
 
        }

Part of the plugin fires off a function in the Joomla Bible Study component that needs to translate strings from the component language files. Those strings do translate correctly.

With language debug on I get this in the user interface on the admin side for the plugin:

??PLG_JBSPODCAST_TO_EMAIL??

The language file is stored in the administrator/language/en_GB/en-GB.plg_system_jbspodcast.ini along with the sys.ini file (which is being loaded and translating the system strings)

Any help is appreciated.

Tom

[Sam Moffatt]

With debug and language debug on what language files does it show as
loading? Also the JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR is surplus to requirement as it
is the default for the second param in Joomla! 1.6.

Cheers,

Sam Moffatt
http://pasamio.id.au

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[tomfuller]

I didn't realize there was more language info below the debug:

Here are the first few lines:

**Language Files Loaded**

• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.ini 1
• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_jbspodcast.ini
• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\plugins\system\jbspodcast/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_jbspodcast.ini

Later on the list:

C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_jbspodcast.sys.ini 1

The folder in my .zip file that holds the languages are /administrator/language/en_GB

I notice it is trying to load some folder off of the plugins/system/jbspodcast folder - but there is no language folder in there. Perhaps I am creating my xml incorrectly.

<languages folder="administrator/language/en-GB">
        <language tag="en-GB">en-GB.plg_system_jbspodcast.ini</language>
        <language tag="en-GB">en-GB.plg_system_jbspodcast.sys.ini</language>
    </languages>

[tomfuller]

I moved the language files to the root but no change. Here is the language debug:

• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.ini 1

• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.lib_joomla.ini 1
• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.tpl_bluestork.ini 1
• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_plugins.ini 1
• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_cache.sys.ini 1
• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_captcha.sys.ini
• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\plugins/system/captcha/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_captcha.sys.ini
• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_debug.sys.ini 1
• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_dump.sys.ini
• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\plugins/system/dump/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_dump.sys.ini

• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_jbspodcast.sys.ini 1

• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_languagefilter.sys.ini 1
• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_log.sys.ini 1
• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_logout.sys.ini 1
• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_p3p.sys.ini 1
• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_redirect.sys.ini 1
• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_remember.sys.ini 1
• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_sef.sys.ini 1

• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_jbspodcast.ini

• C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\plugins/system/jbspodcast/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_jbspodcast.ini

[Sam Moffatt]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:03 PM, tomfuller <tomfu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\plugins/system/jbspodcast/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_jbspodcast.ini

So to clarify this path exists on the file system? With 1.6 we started
a shift for third party extensions to contain language files within
their own packages. This is primarily to ensure that third party
language files are not mutilated through operations on core language
packs (e.g. you support French but French isn't installed when your
extension is installed thus isn't copied however later on a French
language pack is installed however your extension is unavailable in
French because it wasn't there at install time; alternatively it was,
French is uninstalled and reinstalled with similar unavailability).

As noted in the plgSystemAlpha install file the <languages> tag is
deprecated in preference for including the language files within the
package itself. Check out the following link for an example:
https://svn.joomlacode.org/svn/joomla/development/trunk/tests/_data/installer_packages/plg_system_alpha/

Cheers,

Sam

[JM Simonet]

Concerning the xml, please look at the example content plugin.

<files>
        <filename plugin="example">example.php</filename>
               <filename>index.html</filename>
        <!--
                    if you want to install the language files in the plugin folder.
                Create a "language" folder at the root of the pack i.e
                  language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_content_example.ini
                    language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_content_example.sys.ini
                -->
             <folder>language</folder>
       </files>
        <languages folder="language">
           <!--
                    these files will be installed in the administrator/language folder.
             -->
             <language tag="en-GB">en-GB/en-GB.plg_content_example.ini</language>
            <language tag="en-GB">en-GB/en-GB.plg_content_example.sys.ini</language>
        </languages>

JM

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[tomfuller]

I followed the example you provided Jean-Marie and changed the file structure this way:

<files>
        <filename plugin="jbspodcast">jbspodcast.php</filename>
        <folder>language</folder>
    </files>

In the language folder there is another folder called en-GB and in that folder are two files:

en-GB.plg_system_jbspodcast.ini
en-GB.plg_system_jbspodcast.sys.ini

On install the two files and the folders are added to the /plugins/system/jbspodcast folder.

One change: The description of the plugin upon install now translates correctly, however, the strings in the form still do not translate. When editing the plugn parameters, the system areas do translate as before so the sys.ini file is being loaded and used.

In the language files loaded is this line:

l/jbs7/plugins/system/jbspodcast/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_jbspodcast.ini

There is no 1 at the end - is this significant?

At the bottom it also shows the strings in the form are untranslated.

I have verified that the files exist and the path in the language files loaded list is correct (I removed part of it for security reasons).

Is this still the correct way to call the language?

[JM Simonet]

As Sam rightfully said
$this->loadLanguage();
is enough.

If there is no 1, it means the file is not loaded.
Can you delete the ini and sys.ini in the core
administrator/language/en-GB/ and see what happens.
I guess it would also not work because of your former post;

"C:\xampp\htdocs\j16-1\plugins/system/jbspodcast/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_jbspodcast.ini"

// without 1

If I guessed OK, please send me the plugin. I will have a look.

JM

[tomfuller]

The files did not exist in the administrator/language/en-GB folder.

Here is the plugin. You won't want to enable it as it will error because there is no instance of the Joomla Bible Study component installed but left disabled you should still be able to see the translations working or not.

Thanks so much!

Tom

[Ian MacLennan]

**Parsing errors in language files**

• C:\xampp\htdocs\trunk\plugins/system/jbspodcast/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_system_jbspodcast.ini : error(s) in line(s) 50

Line 50 is:

PLG_JBSPODCAST_USE_OFFSET"Use Offset"

I added an = sign and it worked fine.

Ian

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[tomfuller]

And of course, once again - Ian, you are the man! (I'm sure you don't remember but in 2007 you were instrumental in helping me create the original version of my component).

Was that parsing error there in the language debug all along and I just didn't see it?

I also appreciate the explanation of how the languages work - it wasn't clear to me looking at the examples.

All good now.