How to translate social text?

jone68

There is a social description text says

What's This?

Connect your profile to social networks to be notified of activity here and share your activity with your friends and followers.

How do i translate that? I found tow files from

1. /applications/dashboard/views/profile/connections.php and
2. /applications/dashboard/views/social/manage.php

But instead of translating those core files, how can i replace those on my local file?

Thanks,

whu606

See here for a basic explanation of the principle: https://wwww.vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/172545/#Comment_172545

jone68

Thank for the replay. I posted this question after i tried this way:

$Definition['Whats This?'] = 'my local text';
$Definition['Connect your profile to social networks to be notified of activity here and share your activity with your friends and followers.'] = 'my local text';

but didn't work

x00

where are these files? they are not in any stable version

vrijvlinder

Do not use a period in the stuff in the end inside the ['no period goes here']
['What's This'] not with ? , as far as I understand punctuation and exclamations do not need to be redefined or translated. Try it without them.

you must put the definitions in the locale file that is inside the conf/locale.php

also could try $Definition['connections']['Whats This']='my local text';

I am assuming what the name of that section is called so I used 'connections' but it could be called header or Facebook header or something else. it has to be the right name and the right words in order for this to work on the specific item.

x00

There is no point speculating unless you can see the contents of those files, you won't know what label to use.

those files are not in 2.0, so I'm guessing the latest version of 2.1

peregrine

$Definition["What's This?"] = "If I were smart I would look in the files and match punctuation exactly except I would stop at the comma like the statement below";

$Definition["Connect your profile to social networks."] = "I don't know why I don't mention versions of vanilla";

also when all else fails read the documentation for the concept of what is in the left and what is in the right side of equation:

http://vanillaforums.org/docs/localization

easiest way to add definitions is via conf/locale.php

jone68

@x00 it's on version 2.1a33

For example under conections.php

      <div class="Hero">
   <h3><?php echo T("What's This?"); ?></h3>
   <p>
      <?php
      echo Gdn_Format::Markdown(T('Connect your profile to social networks.', "Connect your profile to social networks to be notified of activity here and share your activity with your friends and followers."));
      ?>
   </p>
</div>

@vrijvlinder Thank you for the explanation. i did this way,

$Definition['Whats This']='my local text'; and $Definition['connections']['Whats This']='my local text'; even $Definition['social']['Whats This']='my local text'; but doesn't work

$Definition['Connect your profile to social networks to be notified of activity here and share your activity with your friends and followers'] = 'my local text'; same here

vrijvlinder

know what label to use

this is the key for sure

peregrine

never mind. I already answered the question.