strange language problem with phpbb (?)

Nuke Cadet Joined: Jun 20, 2003 Posts: 6

Hi!

I have two questions (haven't we all) Very Happy

I use the swedish language on my site, and it all works good.
I downloaded the swedish language for phpbb, wich also works neat _exept_ this:

Warning: Failed opening 'modules/Forums/language/lang-swedish.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php/PEAR') in /xxx/html/mainfile.php on line 183

The problem is understandable, because the file doesn't exist at that path, only the lang-english.php does. _however_ i checked that file, and it seems that the file is related to splatt forum (?), wich i don't use at all.
Anyway mainfile.php seems to want to include it anyways. (bug) ??

I used the admin interface for phpbb in nuke to change default language from english, to swedish. (i have also done this in phpnuke itself)
Any ideas? perhaps there is a way to fix this by editing mainfile.php?

Another thing, when i log in with a user, my language in the forum seems to be english, but not if i'm not logged in?
like i said, default is swedish for both phpbb and phpnuke itself.
(i'm using phpnuke 6.5)

Yours
/Northsea

Sergeant Joined: Jun 03, 2003 Posts: 88

my suggestion to your second question is that you as an admin still have in your phpbb profile the english lang as default.
go to forum admin and look up your username and check it out.

the first question requires some thinking...

this file is as you said related to the splatt forums that been used long ago but it is not being used now, the forum is looking for a directory named lang-xxxx in this spesific location and takes the language file from there (at least that is what happens in my site and it is too translated)

do you have in

'modules/Forums/language/

a lang-swedish directory?

Nuke Cadet Joined: Jun 20, 2003 Posts: 6

DeVision wrote:

my suggestion to your second question is that you as an admin still have in your phpbb profile the english lang as default.
go to forum admin and look up your username and check it out.

the first question requires some thinking...

this file is as you said related to the splatt forums that been used long ago but it is not being used now, the forum is looking for a directory named lang-xxxx in this spesific location and takes the language file from there (at least that is what happens in my site and it is too translated)

do you have in

'modules/Forums/language/

a lang-swedish directory?

No, but i have a lang_swedish directory, (the swedish language for phpbb downloaded from www.phpbb.com).
However.. there is no lang-swedish.php file, but there is a lang-english.php file.. wich it seems belongs to the splatt forum (is splatt forum even included in the phpnuke 6.5 release?)
If not, it seems that the lang-english.php file shouldn't be there at all, and mainfile.php needs editing...(bug)
_or_ is phpbb forum using lang-english.php, even tough if you edit that file, you can see that it belongs to splatt forum (?).

Thanks for the reply by the way!

/Northsea

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 10:43 pm

Hi Northsea,

Did you say you downloaded the Swedish Language file from www.phpbb.com? I don't think that will work with PHP-Nuke. There already is a Swedish Language file in PHP-Nuke. Sorry, I guess I'm a little confused, Very Happy

Sergeant Joined: Jun 03, 2003 Posts: 88

No, Linzilla, you can use the language pack from phpbb it works just fine with nuke.
You just put it in /modules/Forums/language and then you have a option in the forum to switch language.

For your question Northsea - Splatt forums were once used with phpnuke, before using phpbb.

AS I said the language directory should be

Code:

/modules/Forums/language/lang-swedish

and then you should have an option to change the lang in you phpbb profile and forum configuration.

this is the get lang function:

Code:

unction get_lang($module) {
global $currentlang, $language;
if (file_exists("modules/$module/language/lang-$currentlang.php")) {
if ($module == admin) {
   include_once("admin/language/lang-$currentlang.php");
} else {
   include_once("modules/$module/language/lang-$currentlang.php");
}
} else {
if ($module == admin) {
   include_once("admin/language/lang-$currentlang.php");
} else {
   include_once("modules/$module/language/lang-$language.php");
}
}
}

now the function goes to

modules/$module/language/lang-$language.php

only if it will not find the $currentlang.php

so please check all defintions are set to swedish ->preferances in your admin control panel, forum configuration and in the admin profile.

Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 7:05 am

He DeVision, that's great, I did not know that, thanks for the info, I just learned something new today, Wink

Linzilla

Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 7:25 am

Usually a quick and dirty fix for this is to grab the desired language file from Nuke 6.0's forum and placing it in the Forum's language folder, else make a copy of lang-english.php rename to lang-yourlang.php and upload, it won't get used but at least the currentlang file will be found.