[LOCKED] Definitive guide to Mambelfish in Joomla 1.07

paolus · **Joined:** Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:02 pm **Posts:** 28

Geraint wrote:

If you say you published the search mambot then there may be a problem to investigate. Can you tell me your setup (first few lines from system/info from the adminitrator.

System Information
PHP built On: Linux server4.sity.nl 2.6.14 #1 Wed Nov 9 09:22:19 CET 2005 i686
Database Version: 4.1.10a-standard-log
PHP Version: 4.4.0
Web Server: Apache
WebServer to PHP interface: apache
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.0.7 Stable [ Sunburst ] 15-Jan-2006 20:00 UTC
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Relevant PHP Settings:
Safe Mode: OFF
Open basedir: none
Display Errors: ON
Short Open Tags: ON
File Uploads: ON
Magic Quotes: ON
Register Globals: ON
Output Buffering: OFF
Session save path: /tmp
Session auto start: 0
XML enabled: Yes
Zlib enabled: Yes
Disabled Functions: none
WYSIWYG Editor: No WYSIWYG Editor

SILSYS · **Joined:** Fri Jan 20, 2006 1:30 pm **Posts:** 1

Hi Geraint and Walb,

your guide works perfectly to my Joomla-Site (V. 1.0.7).
No errors, no problems!

Thanks!
Ingo

josoroma · **Joined:** Sun Sep 11, 2005 12:59 am **Posts:** 81

Hi!
Im trying to use com_bookmarks translated with mambelfish. Sometimes in the front-end the translation works when a switch from language. But when i display the complete deatil of a bookmark the language doesnt change.

I need to know the code to call before the translation of a field or table i dont know.

Thanks in advavnced.

cferd · **Joined:** Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:33 am **Posts:** 17

Hello, I got Mambelfish working for my Spanish translations pretty much ok with a lot of help from this thread, thank you all. However I cannot seem to get it to affect the "Archives" mod , nor the date on my template (247Portal).

I also have Joomla bridged with SMF and it's kind of weird to me, but when I change the language in SMF, the "Archive" months and the date on the template also change. Can anyone point me in the right direction to get Mambelfish and not SMF to change the dates? Would greatly appreciate it.

cjcraven · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:46 am

Hmm, I can see Mamble Fish on the front and it will switch between English and Japanese (language pack items) but when I try to translate content the in the backend I cannot see the original text and the translation cannot be saved.

Joomla! 1.0.3

MarkV · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:56 am

I would advise you to upgrade to 1.0.7. Did u use the files provided by Geraint?

Geraint · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:31 am

@paolus: Does you "multi lingual content searchbot" config look something like the attached image?

cjcraven · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:22 pm

Upgraded to 1.0.7, downloaded files provided by Geraint and poof, works fine. Thank you everybody, now on to translating!

BenDov · **Joined:** Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:49 am **Posts:** 36

Sorry if I am joining the wrong forum but I am not quite sure where to ask. Is it possible to automatically change the template when you change language?

Thanks for your help

Jeremy

Geraint · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:42 pm

BenDov wrote:

Sorry if I am joining the wrong forum but I am not quite sure where to ask. Is it possible to automatically change the template when you change language?

Correct forum - wrong thread

http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,29975.0.html may help

mtk · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:36 pm

Hi,
I know how to translate a menu, bu can I change the ICON?
I have a menu with a written ICON in English but the ICON should change when I change the language...

mtk · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:57 pm

I'm not getting anywhere when changing language...

the link is:

Code:

index.php&lang=he

walb · **Joined:** Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:46 am **Posts:** 823

@mtk
Your last posting first.
If you pump up your PHP reporting level to maximum you might find a notice
Notice: Undefined variable: hrefVars
If so, the solution can be found here http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... #msg168082

About that image.
You mean a small image in front or at the end of the menu item?
If so at can be done, but not very much recommended by me. That image is specified by a parameter in the menu item.
If you extend the contentelement menu.xml with a field params you have control over all of its parameters.
However you will increase the effort of maintenance of your menu items sincerely since you need to keep them in sync with the original and might lead to confusing siuations.
It works though, but I would recommend to use another image e.g. exclamation mark or at least some sort of symbol that is not language dependent.

mtk · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:24 pm

walb wrote:

@mtk
Your last posting first.
If you pump up your PHP reporting level to maximum you might find a notice
Notice: Undefined variable: hrefVars
If so, the solution can be found here http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... #msg168082

Thanks, I tried the error, and did found it.
but I have also:

Code:

Notice: Undefined variable: mbf_dir in .../components/com_mambelfish/mambelfish.html.php on line 71

mtk · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:27 pm

I changed line 71 to this:

Code:

      if( isset($GLOBALS['mbf_dir']) && ($GLOBALS['mbf_dir'] == 'vertical' || $mambelFishManager->getCfg( 'frontendMode' ) == 'vlist' || $mambelFishManager->getCfg( 'frontendMode' ) == 'vimage' )){

now there is no NOTICE but the same problem still occurs...

Geraint · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:31 pm

Can you use a horizontal or vertical list for the time being. I'll get this fixed in the next few days and modify the version attached to the start of this topic.

Geraint

mtk · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:33 pm

I could if i didn't get this:

Code:

Problems while saving the configuration!

mtk · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:40 pm

SOLVED: permission issue

mtk · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:43 pm

now that I'm testing the list options.
the Isreal flag is named iw.gif while the ISO used is he.
just a renaming...

mtk · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:56 pm

Is there any DIR tag inserted to FISH?
Hebrew uses a RTL direction, which need to be manually inserted...

DJesus · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:16 pm

josoroma wrote:

Are you saying you can translate other content types from the frontend and not bookmarks or non-at all? You are making sure the translation is published (which must be done the first time in the backend)?

Dear Community,

I'm sorry but currently Bookmarks is not using JoomlaFish... :'(

I will try in a later version to implement the support as it will be available (by the default) in Joomla v1.1...
So now I have no excuse to not add it to Bookmarks...

But some patience is required, I do not have a lot of time to work on new Bookmakrs version... :-[

walb · **Joined:** Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:46 am **Posts:** 823

@mtk
Hmm. This is wishful thinking!
J! 1.1. is being prepared for UTF-8 an RTL and it may give some problems. This is a big leap for J!.
I've seen already nice but no perfect examples. Just wait and see.

I've no idea how MBF keeps pace, but since Akede is belonging to the core team, it gives me hope. $:-\$

mtk · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:09 pm

@walb:
I didn't said there is any problem with it.
I can add the DIR tag manually.
just wondered if the FISH can do this for me...

MarkV · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2006 11:04 pm

So every finaly work... and then, the HTML validator...

WHAT, ERRORS howcome??

Well the mambelfish component you placed in your template file:

Code:

<?php echo mosLoadComponent( 'mambelfish' ); ?>

is realy nice... but is does not replace the & sign with &.

Luckely the boys and girl at Joomla! inc already wrote a function which replaces the & with the &
The function is called ampReplace (shokking).

So you open the mambelfish.html.php in the components directory.

Find this little bit of code

Code:

return sefRelToAbs( $href );

and replace it with this

Code:

$href = ampReplace($href);
return sefRelToAbs( $href );

This is the first part. If you use images (little flags) you also have to close the images in a XHTML fashion ().

Because all code ends with a border="0">
you can do a find and replace border="0"> with border="0"/>

Now try validating. That looks better doesn't it?

So thats it. I attached my mambelfish.html.php to this discription. Maybe we can incorperate it in the default files.

Geraint · **Posted:** Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:59 am

Thanks MarkV for the suggestions.

I have added / to the end of IMG tag and have fixed the index.php?lang=xx and warnings about $GLOBAL['mbf_dir']

Let me know of any problems (as if I needed to ask ;).

Geraint

p.s. MarkV I believe the "&" vs "amp;" problem is embedded in the sefRelToAbs function since it just adds the &lang=xx.

p.p.s.For the technically minded the langlist now contains the URL containing the URL to be switched to which means it goes through setRelToAbs properly:
Code:
      default:
         if ( count($langActive)>0 ) {
            foreach( $langActive as $language )
            {
               $langOptions[] = mosHTML::makeOption( HTML_mambelfish::_createHRef ($language->iso), $language->name );
            }
         }
         $langlist = mosHTML::selectList( $langOptions, 'lang', 'class="inputbox" size="1" onchange="document.location.replace(this.value);"', 'value', 'text', $iso_client_lang );
         $outString = $langlist;

trancedesigner · **Posted:** Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:34 am

hi all

i have problem with step 2; system say me :

Warning: copy(/home/usereri/public_html/mambots/system/mbf_language.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/usereri/public_html/administrator/components/com_installer/installer.class.php on line 356

and:

Copia file fallita: /home/usereri/public_html/media/install_43d761f8a7e20/mbf_language.php to /home/usereri/public_html/mambots/system/mbf_language.php

where i wrong?

thanks for help

achille

MarkV · **Posted:** Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:38 am

yeah i know, but if joomla upgrades that file, and we perform a upgrade our edited file will be overwritten.
Bij implementing it in Mambelfish the edit surfives a possible update. Futhermore i'm not sure what the consequences are of edditing sef.php because i'm not using sef (wamp def machine).

cferd · **Joined:** Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:33 am **Posts:** 17

I've been, and keep, getting the validation problem with "&lang=xx". No matter what I try and/or modify, it remains "&lang=xx". I'm looking to make it say "&lang=xx".

I did try the last changes provided above (the last one I assume

in mambelfish.html.php also), but nothing. Anyone know what I could change next? Thanks

trancedesigner · **Posted:** Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:46 am

sorry i'm stupid.......

walb · **Joined:** Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:46 am **Posts:** 823

Hmm.
I tried the last modification of Geraint with a combobox and it did not switch.
Checking the generated html and I found that no language was selected at all.
Maybe this statement should be changed from:

Code:

$langlist = mosHTML::selectList( $langOptions, 'lang', 'class="inputbox" size="1" onchange="document.location.replace(this.value);"', 'value', 'text', $iso_client_lang );

into

Code:

$langlist = mosHTML::selectList( $langOptions, 'lang', 'class="inputbox" size="1" onchange="document.location.replace(this.value);"', 'value', 'text', HTML_mambelfish::_createHRef ($iso_client_lang) );

The trick is at the end for selected.
It works also with standard SEF enabled.

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