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[questbg Friend questbgJoin date: May 2008Posts: 1912Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 146 Thanked: 339 times in 197 posts]

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Hi Everyone

I’m using a combination of Teline II, Joomla 1.5.3 and JoomFish 2.0 beta.

I need to know how to translate a banner in JoomFish.

I’ve got a banner in English and Russian. Each needs to point at different URL’s (obviously!).

Both graphics have been uploaded into the ‘banners’ directory.

The English language banner is working fine.

Now I need to make it so that when the site is in Russian, the Russian banner shows.

In JoomFish I go to Translate and select content as “Banners” .

Here I can change the banner title, and the URL:

However, nowhere am I able to select a new graphic for the banner?

Does anyone know how to do this? Has anyone actually done this?

Any assistance would be greatly received.

Thanks
Chris

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#265430

Update:

The advice I was given on the JoomFish forum was this:

Open:
administrator/components/com_joomfish/contentelements/banner.xml

and edit:

Code: Select all
<field type="titletext" name="name" translate="1">Banner Name</field>
<field type="text" name="clickurl" translate="1">Click URL</field>

to become:

Code: Select all
<field type="titletext" name="name" translate="1">Banner Name</field>
<field type="text" name="imageurl" translate="1">Image URL</field>
<field type="text" name="clickurl" translate="1">Click URL</field>

Then open the banners in translation mode and just correct the url of the image used.

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However, my problem is, I tried this today, but I don’t have any “administrator/components/com_joomfish/contentelements/banner.xml”

I only have this:

Does anybody know where to find this code please? :((

Many thanks
Chris

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#265441

For me it seems that you are looking in components/com_joomfish and not administrator/components/com_joomfish?

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#265442

Thanks Menalto … got it. Now to see if the code works!! 😉

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#265444

Indeed it works. Thanks again Menalto. Please mark ‘solved’!

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#265446

Ooops. Spoke too soon! It changed the actual ‘graphic’ OK. English language = English banner. Russian language = Russian banner.

However, even though I typed in a new URL in JoomFish Translate, this is being ignored and the Russian banner still points to the original English URL?

Any ideas on that one!

Thanks
Chris

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#265447

Found the problem, but I don’t have any ideas how to fix it!

It seems that the URL field has a limit of 60 characters. The URL supplied by my Russian client has more characters?

Is there any code I can hack around to increase maximum characters in the translated URL field?

Thanks

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