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Ok, I'll attach my latest version.
If you move it to your first posting that would be fine. After that I will remove my file from this post to avoid any confusion.
The xml holds version 1.0.2

I added the isset test but changed it to
if (isset($database)) $database = null;

Reason:
It kills also any references to it.
The & reference is used by J!1.1 and is a more certain way to get rid of $database and any reference. Just tested it on J!1.1 too and works better. (unset did not work properly)
And yes, I have Mambelfish up and running in full under J!1.1 latest svn too with the same bot.
This bot works for 1.0.x and 1.1 ;)

EDIT> removed the attachment, since it is now attached at the first posting of Geraint

Thanks walb - done the update of the first message.

I too have J1.1 working fine (with a bot I wrote myself before I saw yours  ).

Out of interest - how have you dealt with the inheritance of mlDatabase in J1.1?  I've created an artificial class in between mlDatabase and JDatabaseMySQL or JDatabaseMySQLi which I conditionally include so that mlDatabase can have JDatabaseMySQL or JDatabaseMySQLi as a parent class determined at runtime.

Geraint

THX very much for this guide. for me it works perfect. But now i have to translate all that stuff

THX
snow

Hi walb,

thanks very much for your update.

But there is till the problem, that in the debug mode no sql query are shown.

For me I can live with this.

John

@Geraint

Removed my attachment from my post as said.

I did nothing of that sort.
I played a trick on J!1.1 and put this in the bot you have now:
          if (defined( '_JEXEC' )) { // Joomla! 1.1 dirty trick to get the language switched by brute force
      $mainframe->_lang = $mosConfig_lang;
      }
I don't think that it is a valid way of doing that, but for now it works
And I prefer to use Joomfish when it is released.

The only thing I changed in the MBF component was to make it work with register globals off emulation, because on does not seem to work properly in the current SVN.
That caused the language configuration not being saved properly (table only).
Next 'mosinstallation' is changed to 'installation' tag in the english.xml file, so I trained MBF to check for both.

I do this mainly to test the backward compatibility of 1.1.
Currently most multi lingual packages will fail in svn because no one has a eng_GB.php or nld_NL.php
I brought that to the attention of the dev team. They are still thinking of a solution.

@walb

I used $mainframe->setUserState('lang', language goes here); to the same effect.  I think Joomfish will probably need to move from 2 character ISO codes to the 6 character approach in J1.1 but a mapping is easy enough to deal with.

What I was getting at with mlDatabase issue was that the mlDatabase class can no longer inherit from a simple database class (e.g. JDatabase) since the inheritance is driver dependent (mySQL or mySQLi - and more to follow).

Geraint

Let's try a multiple clent answer! :)Yes, you have to that yourself and it is a tedious job! I did it myself. Grumpf  :oDon't worry Joomfish will be released in due time.Geraint,
could it be possible to clean up this from our dev talk (Alex has the authority) and only to stick to the subject.
Plse open up a new thread and I'm willing to help.

Hi,

I'm having exactly the same problem as mtk - so I'll try to answer a few of this:



Webserver: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/4.4.1
OS: Windows XP Prof
Browser: Firefox 1.0.7
DB:  4.0.23-Max-log
PHP:  4.4.1
Register Globals: OFF

I have to add that I don't even understand what this means - without the System Info tab I wouldn't even know how to find out...

Cheers,
Ben.

Maybe a link to this guide should be placed in the FAQ section of the forum. It took me ages to find it 

Btw, it al works now so i realy reaaaly love it 

MTK's problem was caused by his dbPrefix being blank (as opposed to "jos_" or something similar) .  Check that in your global config - if it is blank then either reinstall with a non-blank prefix or make the following change to

function _getTableName()  in administrator/components/com_mambelfish/mambelfish.class.php:

if ($mosConfig_dbprefix!="") $table = ereg_replace( $mosConfig_dbprefix, '', $table);

Hope this helps

Geraint

Excellent - it did help!

Thank you so much!

Ben.

If anyone is having problems getting it working with ComboBox as "Frontpage Appearance" of the module read here

http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,29403.0.html

Geraint's guide worked perfectly for me, thanks god! I just wondered how I would survive without having the fish on my site  . Thanks to you, this community is amazing!

Hi guys,

About a month ago, when I installed Mambelfish on Joomla, I encountered problems with search. In particular, the search didn't work with umlaut characters. That is, words like 'käydä' were not found by search.

I managed to fix this problem on my site at the time (see link below). But I am wondering if the Mambelfish files provided by Geraint have fixed that problem as well (so that in my next installation of Joomla/Mambelfish I don't have to redo the same thing again).

Also, multlingual search only searches content, but not other things like the Contact details. Has anything happened to fix this?

Best regards,

Zoltan
http://www.avoima-consulting.com

Hi guys,
Im not sure if this is the same problem that you were having above with the ereg_replace() error, but I was getting a similar error message.
I checked the code, and it was attempting to get the table name minus the db prefix (eg jos_, or mos_) using the ereg function.
The incorrect assumption was that the db was using any prefix at all, and in the case that there was none, an empty prefix string was being passed to the regexp function causing the error.
Just simply add a check one line before to rid yourself of the problem,
eg

if( $mosConfig_dbprefix )
$table = ereg_replace( $mosConfig_dbprefix, '', $table);

edit:  ha, I didnt notice a second page to this. I see the error has been corrected already.

Hi,

I currently installing the files you provided and I'm at step 3 (mbf_module.zip)  but I see it's in german.
Is there an english version somewhere ?

Thanks for this great guide

Alex - the author of Mambelfish is a German speaker hence the German content.  This doesn't affect the display. 

You could try experimenting with some the different values or check a german dictionary online.  Most people seem to get by ok.

I'll make sure all the instructions are at least bilingual in the next release

Geraint

I guess it's a good excuse to learn my first few words in german

Btw, the installation went flawlessly.
Thanks a lot

hi

I installed Joomla 1.05 with Mambelfish as explained in this great guide. Everything works fine.

My question:
can I upgrade to Joomla 1.07 (1.0.5 to 1.0.7 Patch Package) or are there any known problems? 

Thanks for your help!
g0nz0

I upgraded from 1.0.5 to 1.0.7 without a problem and also mambelfish survived fine.
But I make allways a backup. Just in case...

Thanks walb - I've just updated the message accordingly.

May be I have done something not right...
I dont see the module on my site, and I don't see it on the Module Manager to activate it...
Any ideas how to handle that? Sorry if it is something stupid, but as a newbie you can imagine how much time I spent looking for the keyy to this mystery! 

If you installed the module as described in step 3
3.Install language switching module (mbf_module.zip - remember to publish the module)

If no error was displayed at installation it should be available in the module manager. But it could be possible that you did oversee that you had an additional page in the module list and that it is displayed there?

Hi !

I also have everything installed, without NO error. I have both english & spanish languanges...

However, althougt components show correctly, I never have any document to translate. I meant, on the
Components => Mambel Fish => Translation , everything is empty, althought I have contest that I should modify/translate.

Any hint ?

@agorosti

1. What versions of PHP and MySQL are you running?
2. What languages do you have installed in Joomla?
3. What languages do you have setup for Mambelfish?

Geraint

Hello all,

I am unable to install the bot_mbf_language_system. The others worked fine, but this bot gives me the following error:

Warning: copy(/www/XXXXX/www.foerderportal.com/mambots/system/mbf_language.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /www/XXXXX/www.foerderportal.com/administrator/components/com_installer/installer.class.php on line 356



ks

/www/XXXXX/www.foerderportal.com/mambots/system needs to be writeable by Apache/php - otherwise permission is denied.

Silly.  Thanks!

Hi,

When I try to translate contents it displays "Translation incomplete or original changed" icon in state. But example menu translating works fine.
And when I try to edit contents in site (not in admin panel) and save it will replace translated content with default language's content.

Any ideas how to fix this?

I'm testing more thorough with 1.0.7. There might be a problem.
Added new content and I don't seem to be able make a translation anymore, but it overrides the original content. At least in the front end.
Back end seems normal. Can make translations. But frontend seems to override the origianal.

It needs some investigation.