using language files of other modules

[jeroendelau]

I'm having a problem with the languages.

I'm developing two modules, one is the foundation it contains a lot of classes I want to reuse. These classes also handle some output so I include some $module->Lang(_) statements. Where $module is the current active module.

This works fine when testing in the foundation module. The en_US contains all the translations for this module. However once I start using the classes from the foundation modules from other modules the lang() function will no longer see the translation from the foundation module file.

I don't want to copy the foundation translations into every module I want to use it in. Is there a way to reference the translations from the foundation class in a absolute way?

Rephrase: Can you access the language array from module B from module A

Much appreciated,
Jeroen

[Dee]

From your second module you can use either

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$modA =& $this->cms->modules['ModuleA']['object'];

or

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$modA =& $this->getModuleInstance('ModuleA');

to get a reference to the other module object.
You should then be able to call $modA->Lang('langstr');

Regards,
D

[jeroendelau]

thnx, that did the trick!

Jeroen