JomSocial field type 'Country' values don't translate correctly

quasiman

The JomSocial country field isn't translating the values correctly, and viewing the language file itself the constants are not correct either.
1. Screenshot of creating the field: https://snipboard.io/aP7TLf.jpg
2. Screenshot of the created field on frontend: https://snipboard.io/AKfDV1.jpg
3. Screenshot of the browser console for the field: https://snipboard.io/6YsjBv.jpg
4. Screenshot of the loaded language file: https://snipboard.io/f82qko.jpg
5. Screenshot of the language file, showing the correct values for the country select: https://snipboard.io/bipof8.jpg

Ninja

quasiman
Hi
Kindly edit fields in first post and submit a temp super user login and FTP details for staff.

Regards

quasiman

Ninja
Edited the first post with details of a new site with no modifications other than the country field added.

Ninja

quasiman
Hi
Kindly apply the changes in this file https://quasitown.com/joomlatest/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_community.country.ini
The country names are same here.

quasiman

Ninja
The issue has not been resolved on the test site, and the language file has not been changed. What changes need to be applied?

Ninja

quasiman
Hi
The country name are in this file https://quasitown.com/joomlatest/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_community.country.ini if you want to translate them you need to change the country name to your language and same will show in the frontend .

quasiman

Ninja
I apologize if I'm not being clear on the issue, so let me try again...

I do not need to translate the file, as the site is defaulted to English ( en-GB ), and the language debug shows that the file loaded. The problem is that the select option values are not displaying the English file constants:

These option values are NOT correct; they should show the values for the language codes:
COM_COMMUNITY_LANG_CODE_AF="AF"

Ninja

quasiman
Hi
Its normal the select option load the html code and value is picked. its work like this.

quasiman

Ninja
It's normal that the code does not use its own language file information? I don't understand that....

Is there a way I can create my own field without hacking the code that correctly uses the two letter country codes?

Ninja

quasiman
Hi
what you mean the code not using own language?
The site default language is EN and same is used on your site, what you want to change?
the select option use the code constants and loads the values from language file.

quasiman

Ninja

The two letter country codes are not being used from the language file.

Currently it is like this:
<option value="COM_COMMUNITY_LANG_NAME_AFGHANISTAN">Afghanistan</option>
<option value="COM_COMMUNITY_LANG_NAME_ALANDISLANDS">Åland Islands</option>
<option value="COM_COMMUNITY_LANG_NAME_ALBANIA">Albania</option>

I want it to be like this:
<option value="COM_COMMUNITY_LANG_CODE_AF">Afghanistan</option>
<option value="COM_COMMUNITY_LANG_CODE_AX">Åland Islands</option>
<option value="COM_COMMUNITY_LANG_CODE_AL">Albania</option>

Ninja

quasiman
Hi

COM_COMMUNITY_LANG_NAME_AFGHANISTAN

this is the value used to get the country name it would not change.

quasiman

Ninja
Right, and that's my point. Why is the value in the language file not being used?
COM_COMMUNITY_LANG_CODE_AF

Ninja

quasiman
Hi
I do not understand what you mean why its not used, the selection code use the default code, this is how it works

quasiman

The language file has these two values... why isn't the select using both?

COM_COMMUNITY_LANG_NAME_AFGHANISTAN="Afghanistan"
COM_COMMUNITY_LANG_CODE_AF="AF"

quasiman

By the way, the change to use Country Code is very simple:
/components/com_community/libraries/fields/country.php
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Ninja

quasiman
Hi
Yes its in the core the used to pick the country values, however its not something issue even if you use the same default code.

quasiman

Ninja
My problem is that I need the two letter code for a plugin I'm writing.

The two letters codes are in the xml and the language file, why not use them?

Ninja

quasiman
Hi
because you can use One at a time and default is used as Main code.

quasiman

I don't understand

Ninja

quasiman
Hi
Your question is not idea as you asking why this is used? its normal you can use a language constant to pick the value. There is no deal like word why ? As you can changed the code to use shortcodes.
Let me know if there is any issue as this question is not something to fix.