Changable text strings.

[kat]

I'm just kinda thinking out-loud, with this...

As we quite often get requests along the lines of "How do I change the text of the welcome mail" and such things, how easy (Or not) would it be, to make these things easily user-configurable?

Say, have an Admin section, where these things appear, much like the theme files do, in Themes>ThemeName>Browse the templates and files in this theme does, where they can be edited.

Would the "effort for gain" be too much, to achieve this?

[Matthew K.]

It'd be fairly easy, actually.

[Illori]

in 2.0 you can edit the language strings in the admin panel by default. i think the only one you can not edit in the admin panel is the email template.

[kat]

Really?

I've never come-across that.

* K@ goes moochin'...

[Illori]

admin -> languages click language name and go from there

[Matthew K.]

Oh wow, I've never seen that before. It's hidden pretty well.

[kat]

I tried that and didn't see owt.

* K@ mooches further...

[Illori]

owt? what is that??

[kat]

"Owt" is Northern English for "Anything".

I finally found those strings.

I think cracking the DaVinci code was easier.

OK. New observation: That should be made a LOT more obvious.

[Illori]

in what way would you want it more obvious?

[kat]

"To change the text for some of the forum's text strings, click on the name of the language file and..." might go some way.

[Norv]

I have to agree it's kind of ... easy to miss, as it is, for some reason.

* Norv wonders if it's documented in the wiki, too.

[Illori]

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Languages_-_How_do_I_add_a_new_language is the closest page to this request, but it is not really on that page. nor do we have a page on the languages page in admin panel on the wiki that i can see.

[kat]

I've already made a suggestion to Angel, about that.

[Robert.]

I'm sorry to use your topic K@ but I'd like to see an option to create a new language based on the default language (like that option in the themes page). I know you can do it manually too, but it's a horrible job to copy and rename every file.

[kat]

Actually, it IS there...

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Languages#Edit_Language_Entries

What I'm gonna do, unless somebody squeaks, is add something about this to the FAQ.

[Illori]

that page just got edited today

[kat]

Ah. The wonders of teknoligy, huh?

[Antechinus]

Oh wow, I've never seen that before. It's hidden pretty well.

I tried that and didn't see owt.

* K@ mooches further...

There seems to be quite a bit of this sort of thing in our templates. A tad more rethunking is necessary methinkses.

[kat]

One agreeziz, oh Antechinical one.