Renaming Item in Main menu

[Krimm]

SMF Version -- 2.0 RC3
Theme -- Impulse 2

Alright, so I've yet another question for the amazing SMF Support forum! Essentially I've searched on how to rename certain items throughout the forum and for the most part, its served its purpose. I renamed Sub-Forums to Sub-Boards and I found out I could edit any Menu Item I wanted...except My Messages. I've recently attained Filezilla (lolfinally) and am now able to access of the pages and whatnot. Essentially, I'd just like to know how I can rename "My Messages" to "Inbox".

Any and all help is appreciated!

[Joker™]

Sources/Subs.php

change txt string here

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'title' => $txt['pm_short'],


Replace that string with your own string and define a new one in
themes\default\languages\Modifications.english.php

[Krimm]

Well that's a start but would you be a bit more specific on what I should input? @ @ I'm clueless when it comes to php unfortunately and I'm only beginning to learn Java. Sorry XD

[Joker™]

Like for example, change things like this,

Source\Subs.php
Find:

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'title' => $txt['pm_short'],


Replace it with:

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'title' => $txt['pm_inbox'],


Now open
themes\default\languages\Modifications.english.php

Find:

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?>


Add before:

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$txt['pm_inbox'] = 'Inbox';


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[Matthew K.]

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            'title' => $txt['pm_short'],

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            'title' => 'Your Text',

[Krimm]

Thanks you guys o:

I did it slightly differently though, which explains why I couldn't get it to work initially. I went to Languages > ThemeStrings.english.php and renamed pm_short to Inbox and it worked XD

I didn't know My Messages was defined as pm_short though e-e

Well that wraps it up, thanks again.

[Matthew K.]

I'll go ahead and mark topic as resolved then Krimm

Glad to see you got it figured out.

[Joker™]

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            'title' => $txt['pm_short'],

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            'title' => 'Your Text',

I think your method will put a hard text in the file which is not recommended.

I did it slightly differently though, which explains why I couldn't get it to work initially. I went to Languages > ThemeStrings.english.php and renamed pm_short to Inbox and it worked XD

That string "pm_short" maybe used at some other places, so i won't recommend you to change predefined strings at all.

[Krimm]

hm but isn't it just sort of the same thing as what you're going? pm_short remains the same, however it now displays the string "Inbox".

Basically what I have in ThemeStrings.english.php is:

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$txt['pm_short'] = '@Postal';

Won't the variable name, pm_short still be accessible to other codes?

[Joker™]

hm but isn't it just sort of the same thing as what you're going? pm_short remains the same, however it now displays the string "Inbox".

Basically what I have in ThemeStrings.english.php is:

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$txt['pm_short'] = '@Postal';

Won't the variable name, pm_short still be accessible to other codes?

See what i have learnt so far is that use should create a new string instead of changing original one, as the original string might be used at various places. So sometime it make changes at such places also which you might not like .

[Matthew K.]

Yes it does, but why you put strings into language files is so they can be translated. This is mainly a mod standard. And for custom coding, it's not a huge deal to put text in a non-language file.

But yes, the best way is to put it in a language file.

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            'title' => $txt['pm_short'],

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            'title' => 'Your Text',

I think your method will put a hard text in the file which is not recommended.