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Hi all

Although being very happy about Shop Made Simple (in combination with Cart Made Simple), I am confused to not find the option of changing the language. Words like "categories" or "add to cart" should be possible to be translated. I do find the words "default language" but there is no dropdown or similar below (s. screenshot).

How can I change the language of the shop?

Thanks!

JTM

johnnytm,

I'm glad that you are happy about the modules!
The original idea of "default language" for the module was to have translations per product. As a result of that the module could be used in a multilinguale environment. It has not yet come that far (no requests entered and nothing heared of it). I should remove that non working preference.
I have checked the ShopMadeSimple translation table and "categories" is not in it. As a result your german translation table (at least that is the language that I see you are using), doesn't contain it. You might try and add it manually in de_DE.php. Remember that during an upgrade it will be lost again. Can you point out where you find the word "categories", so I can change it for next release?

"Add to cart" is obviously out of the CartMadeSimple module. I will try to locate it and prepare it in the translation table. So it will be in on the next release.

Duketown

When you want custom-labels (from the lang-file) and dont want to loose them in an upgrade, then you could use the custom_module logic...

When your lang-file is de_DE.php, then you could have a specific de_DE.php with ONLY the changed labels, located in:

module_custom\ShopMadeSimple\lang

and that file will be taken. In an upgrade, the \module\ShopMadeSimple\ will be overwritten AND NOT the module_custom logic. I would test with a single label If I were you, to test is ShopMadeSimple works like this as well....

Ronny

RonnyK,

Thanks for the additional info. That is a far better solution.
In the recent past I tried that, but didn't work. Do you have it up and running (in other words, I have to check what I have done wrong)?

@jonnytm: I made an error stating "add to cart" is part of CartMadeSimple. It is in ShopMadeSimple and it is in the translation table en_US.php available. So either you are using an old version or the translators have some work to do.

Duketown

Hi,
the module_custom method works, but sometimes people do a mistake and place lang file in module_custom\MODULENAME\lang\ext - It should be placed in module_custom\MODULENAME\lang

vilkis

Duketown,

I have it running currently at my dev-box with Availability... I can show you that settings...

Ronny

Works great, thanks!