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I want the "You are here" text to appear in Spanish and English.

It is wise to add a definition to the language files?  Or is there a better way to do this?

Usually, this is provided in the template index.php as:

Adding the Spanish text after (or before) the English one will do

Hi,

but there is one index.php used for both English and Spanish so I cannot have "you are here" hard coded in there.  Is there a better way?

Do you mean you are using Joomfish and switching languages?
Your original post is unclear.

I am using Joom!Fish and switching languages.  However please let me explain the problem further...

I have some static text on my site in the index.php, for example "You are here".  As this is not content stored in the database (and therefore would NOT be translated by Joom!Fish) it always shows as "You are here" regardless of the language.

I figured I could add a definition to each language file something along the lines of

define('_YOUAREHERE','You are here');

in the english.php and

define('_YOUAREHERE','Qui esta');

in the spanish.php

then in the index.php use "echo _YOUAREHERE"

That way the correct text would be shown.  However I'm told that editing the language files is not a good idea as they might change in the next Joomla release so wondering what a better way of doing this is.

I'll move this topic to the multilanguages forum.

But, in that case you have a very simple solution:

Add these lines where you want the pathway to show in your template:


Hope it helps.

That is certainly a possible solution but that mean I now have language specific stuff defined in my index.php which is not great is it?

I thought it might be better to have a completely separate set of language files (with all the static text in) and 'import' this somehow something like this...

Have a lang_custom_english.php containing...

DEFINE('CL_YOUAREHERE', 'You are here : ');
?>

and a similar one for spanish then in the index.php do this...



and then

 

But it doensn't seem to show the actual text defined.  Any thoughts?  I have a few static text and possibly several languages to support.  It just doesn't seem right to have hard coded strings in the index.php

And why that? 

It is a simple solution. What is simpler is better. Just modifying one non-core file.
If you know another solution, please try it and implement it, then let us know.

Many thanks!  I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR HELP.

NP 

I have hacked another solution for you (and for all  ).

I modified Stingrey Pathway Module in order to include a Text parameter (as well as css class suffix).

This needs a slight modification in the Joomfish following file (modif included in the archive attached, just replace the old one with the new manually).
administrator/components/com_joomfish/contentelements/module.xml

Then install the module (zip included in the archive) and display/publish it in a specific position in your template and translate that text field for each language through joomfish usual method.
As this is a db parameter, do not forget to separate the moduleclass sfx param and the text param by a return.
The "You are here" or whatever you like will be placed before the pathway.

To get the module.xml file and the module zip package, first unzip the archive and the module.xml

That should avoid adding quite a few language "ifs" in the template when many languages are at stake.

I'll now change the Title of this thread to reflect the issue.