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M0bius
PostPosted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:40 am 
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Hello! I am doing all I can to learn Joomla, and it turns out it really learn how to work Joomla properly I will have to learn PHP and the so forth, which I am currently studying.

However, at the point I am I still am unable to recognize what specific piece of code I'm looking for remove or modify.

I am trying to remove the standard search module's "box label". It is the label that always appears left to the actual search box. If I give it a blank label it automatically takes something from the standard language file (well thats what it said), and inputs it there. I want this space to be blank because it will ruin the custom template I am trying to build at the moment. But it won't be left blank and always inputs something else if I leave it blank.

I know that I have to copy the files in question to my template directory, but I dont actually know what specific file and lines of code govern this because as I said, I'm still learning PHP.

Will someone please show me how to override and disable this? Im interested in learning more about overrides in Joomla templates.
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vidurb
PostPosted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:00 am 
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Well... the text comes from either of the 2 places.
1) Language File. This will be in your Joomla Installation Directory > Language > en-gb > look for the relevant .ini file here (it will say search on it)
2) The php file. This will be in your Joomla Installtion Directory > Modules > Mod_Search > tmpl > default.php

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M0bius
PostPosted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:54 am 
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Okay I found it. The file is en-GB.mod_search.ini
It's line 32 which says "Search".. and when I changed it and refreshed it it came out as what I edited it.

I've tried putting it into my template but it looks I didn't do it right.

I am positive this will work now as an override but I'm not sure where to place it as it's part of a language folder and not a component folder.

Can anyone show me the proper place in my Template folder for me to put this en-Gb.mod_search.ini file for it to work right?
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vidurb
PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:45 am 
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I can't understand the part where you've said that you refreshed and it worked, but didn't put it in the right place?

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M0bius
PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:36 am 
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thats because I tried modifying the original core language file. I did it and it worked. I reverted it back to the original file again, but saved the edited file. I know the file works, but I don't know where to place this file in my template in order for it to override the module.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 2:55 pm 
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I've mentioned the path of the file in my previous post. Just go there, copy the original and rename this copy. Now edit the file in use.

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