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[vanillasky Friend vanillaskyJoin date: September 2010Posts: 24Downloads:0Uploads:16 Thanks: 5]

#154935

Hi there,

I got 2 questions regarding the contact form.
1.) Is it possible to place any text over the contact form (e.g. my own contact details like address etc.)?
2.) How do I change/edit the sentence below the contact form?
I have attached a screenshot.

Many thanks in advance!
Cheers…

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[gray Friend grayJoin date: October 2009Posts: 957Downloads:0Uploads:17 Thanks: 28 Thanked: 292 times in 230 posts]

#357709

In both cases you should have a respective (I think German lang package) installed

1) in the template folder, file /html/com_contact/contact/default_form.php find

<label for=”contact_name”>
<?php echo JText::_( ‘Enter your name’ ); ?>:</label>

insert BEFORE

<label for=”contact_name”>
<?php echo JText::_( ‘YOUR_TEXT_HERE’ ); ?>:</label>

More correct is to add this text in a constant in /language/de-DE/de-DE.com_contact.ini
YOUR_TEXT_HERE=Your text you’d like to add

Also instead of <label for=”contact_name”></label> you could put another tag.

2) It’s a constant in language file /language/en-GB or /language/de-DE/ (you should have /de-DE/)
EMAIL_A_COPY=E-mail a copy of this message to your own address.

If front-end language of your site is set to German (site back end -> Extensions – > Language Manager), it should be translated by Joomla in German

[vanillasky Friend vanillaskyJoin date: September 2010Posts: 24Downloads:0Uploads:16 Thanks: 5]

#357713

Thanks gray!
I’ll try it as you said… 🙂

[vanillasky Friend vanillaskyJoin date: September 2010Posts: 24Downloads:0Uploads:16 Thanks: 5]

#357987

Hi Gray,

all your suggestions worked, thanks for that. And I also successfully installed the German lang pack!
But I’m facing some other problems now.

All the English words in the K2 blog won’t change as there are no en-GB.mod_k2_content.ini, en-GB.mod_k2_comments.ini, en-GB.mod_k2_content.ini and many others in the languagede-DE folder.
Does it mean I have to manually translate and change the words directly in the respective languageen-GB ini files?
Or is there another way of handling this issue?

Generally I noticed that there are many other modules missing their translations as well. I guess it just does the job for the essential things like breadcrumbs, footer etc.

Many thanks!!!

[vanillasky Friend vanillaskyJoin date: September 2010Posts: 24Downloads:0Uploads:16 Thanks: 5]

#358056

Hi Gray,

I have also installed Joomfish, where I did manage translating the contact form, modules, articles etc.
But still couldn’t figure out where to change some of the words in the K2 blog. See screenshot!

Any ideas? :confused:
Thanks!

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[steinar Friend steinarJoin date: July 2007Posts: 319Downloads:0Uploads:7 Thanks: 11 Thanked: 98 times in 84 posts]

#358059

<em>@vanillasky 197228 wrote:</em><blockquote>… manually translate and change the words directly in the respective languageen-GB ini files?
Or is there another way of handling this issue?</blockquote>

There are extensions that help organize the translation, like the component Translation manager which I have installed and used:

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/languages/language-edition/1776

It finds the phrases for you and keeps track of what you have translated and what’s left.

[gray Friend grayJoin date: October 2009Posts: 957Downloads:0Uploads:17 Thanks: 28 Thanked: 292 times in 230 posts]

#358075

<em>@steinar 197327 wrote:</em><blockquote>There are extensions that help organize the translation, like the component Translation manager which I have installed and used:

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/languages/language-edition/1776

It finds the phrases for you and keeps track of what you have translated and what’s left.</blockquote>

It’s not necessary to translate ENG lang files from scratch. Look in the Internet for German files, especially in K2 forum.
For example, ready this thread.

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[vanillasky Friend vanillaskyJoin date: September 2010Posts: 24Downloads:0Uploads:16 Thanks: 5]

#358095

Cheers guys for your help,

I finally found this plugin: http://sourceforge.net/projects/k2deutsch/files/
Now it works!!! 🙂

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