Multilanguage Guide for Mosets Hot Property

[ivo.apostolov]

Here is what you should do, in order to make Hot Property and Joom!Fish to work together.
This guide is posted with the permit of Mosets Consulting as it contains parts of commercial code. Consider that the guide is related to Joom!Fish 1.7 and Hot Property 0.98, anyway it is expected to work in the same way with different versions.

How to make Hot Property to work with Joom!Fish?
One of the weaknesses of the great commercial component Hot Property provided by Mosets Consulting is that it doesn’t operate properly on Multilanguage sites.

What you could do is to make several hacks in order to make the component Multilanguage.

1. Open the file components/com_hotproperty/hotproperty.php and find on row 37 the following code:

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if ($hp_language=='') {
	$hp_language='english';
} else {
	$hp_language=$mosConfig_lang;
}

include_once('components/com_hotproperty/language/'.$hp_language.'.php');

and replace it with:

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if (file_exists($mosConfig_absolute_path . '/components/com_hotproperty/language/' . $mosConfig_lang . '.php')) {
include($mosConfig_absolute_path . '/components/com_hotproperty/language/' . $mosConfig_lang . '.php');
} else {
include($mosConfig_absolute_path . '/components/com_hotproperty/language/english.php');
}

2. Open the file components/com_hotproperty/pdf.php and find on row 25 the following code:

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if ($hp_language=='') {
$hp_language='english';
}
include_once($mosConfig_absolute_path.'/components/com_hotproperty/language/'.$hp_language.'.php');
if ( $mosConfig_lang == '' ) {
$mosConfig_lang = 'english';
}
include_once ( $mosConfig_absolute_path.'/language/'.$mosConfig_lang.'.php' );

and replace it with:

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if (file_exists($mosConfig_absolute_path . '/components/com_hotproperty/language/' . $mosConfig_lang . '.php')) {
include($mosConfig_absolute_path . '/components/com_hotproperty/language/' . $mosConfig_lang . '.php');
} else {
include($mosConfig_absolute_path . '/components/com_hotproperty/language/english.php');
}

3. Open all files of the modules and the search mambot, which you have installed and find the code:

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if ($hp_language=='') {
$hp_language='english';
}
include_once('components/com_hotproperty/language/'.$hp_language.'.php');

and replace it with:

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if (file_exists($mosConfig_absolute_path . '/components/com_hotproperty/language/' . $mosConfig_lang . '.php')) {
include($mosConfig_absolute_path . '/components/com_hotproperty/language/' . $mosConfig_lang . '.php');
} else {
include($mosConfig_absolute_path . '/components/com_hotproperty/language/english.php');
}

Now the component is ready to be Multilanguage, what else you must do is to add the necessary content elements, so the Joom!Fish will be able to translate the database.
The content elements can be downloaded from:
http://forge.joomla.org/sf/go/projects. ... t_property

Upload them to administrator/components/com_joomfish/contentelements/ and you are now able to translate the entries.
You can easy upload the content element files with the special component names Joom!Fish Content Element Installer. Download it from:

http://forge.joomla.org/sf/frs/do/downl ... s4992?dl=1

[Alex_semperfi]

Hi Ivo

Thanks for the guide 

I am considering Hot Property as well.
Mosets says multilanguage support for their product
would not be good yet in joomla / jfish.

Thats why I´d be interested to hear other
opinions, statements of people who successfully
implemented HP and Joomfish.

Thanks
ASF

[ivo.apostolov]

As I wrote you on PM, it is working really without problems with two languages, it is working in the same way with 3,4 etc, but I haven't tested this on a live site.

[Dj Tomak]

Hi to all
ivo.apostolov great work. This implementation is ok with hotpropetry. Tested and it works ok.
But the problem is in the extra fields. There you have to translate all the field values each time you insert a new property.

You understand that this is a serious problem especially when you have to insert 400 - 500 properties

Any solution for this issue?

Thanks in advance

[ivo.apostolov]

No solution. As you need to enter those values when you are adding the property in the usual way, you will need to enter those during the translation as well.

[sanka]

hi
i do that alll

i use sef advance+joomfish+hot property

than the property type can not be translateted

but i delete sef advance everything ok:(

[ivo.apostolov]

I have no experience with SEF Advance.

[Dj Tomak]

Hi again.
What should I change (maybe in the xml file) in order to sort hot properties in Joomfish  by id in a descending order?

[vuperda]

3. Open all files of the modules and the search mambot, which you have installed and find the code:

Can I get a little clarification on this step, what are these files, is it modules and files that are installed on extra features that comes with hot property or it means on some joomla core files?

[ivo.apostolov]

The extra extensions of Hot Property and not the core files of Joomla!

[Yatko]

Translating Hot Property extra fields Joomla! 1.5

Hi everyone! I am struggling with a strange problem here.

Joomla! 1.5, Mosets Hot Property 1.0b4, Joomfish 2.0.3

I am using over 20 extra fields (area, heating, facilities,....) most of them checkboxes and select boxes. All these fields are translated in HP -Extra Fields and I was expecting they will translate automatically on the website. They don't; instead I have 4200+ (and rising) records in HP -Extra Fields Values. All the same checkbox/dropdown-select values, but everything separated into a new record. Every property has 20+ different records in HP -Extra Fields Values, most of them empty and the others containing the selected values.

I've attached the used .xml files, the one I am talking about is hp_properties2.xml and maybe hp_properties.xml
What I figured out, that hp_properties2.xml refers to the database "id" when the values are linked to the property based on the second "property" field. They should be linked to the respective property using the property field instead of id. But not sure....

Is this a misconfiguration, known issue or an error? Any help would be appreciated!

Thank you!

[jmoises]

yatko_com, did you find a solution i also need HotProperty 1.0 and Joomfish to work