I have started working on building my first addon. I am looking at the code for this and wondering how I go about making the installation text that goes on the addon install page multi-lingual. When I try to use a $lang entry, I get:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_GLOBAL, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/worldofw/public_html/roster200/addons/guildstats/inc/install.def.php on line 30

If I put in a line that says:

global $lang;

With it not there, I get:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/worldofw/public_html/roster200/addons/guildstats/inc/install.def.php on line 39

which says:

var $fullname = $lang['guildstats_fullname']; // 'Guild Statistics';


Is it not doable? Is there a different way I need to do it? Thanks for any help in this.

These values are entered into the db and are meant to be static
You cannot use a variable to set a declared class variable

However, you can set this in the class constructor

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$this->fullname = $roster->locale->act['guildstats_fullname'];

But this is entered in the db and will be set to whatever locale Roster is in when the addon is installed


We could probably enable you to use locale keys there, like we do with the button names
So you could use

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$this->fullname = 'guildstats_fullname';

Which would try to use this locale key

I think most of us would like to be able to use the locale keys for this information so that the screen will change based on the current local. It is possible the person running the system does not know English and would have trouble setting up the addon because of it. I would not even mind if you put something in the string that identifies it as a locale key.

If you use the $roster->locale->act['localized_string'] object method it will return the localized string for the currently selected language.

I think of "act" as "Active Language".

Well, I tried out your suggestion and it seems the locale files for the addon are not accessed when displaying the list of addon's available. It does not load them if they are on or off.

I tested this by putting an echo into the files showing the area of the code I am working in. The one from the constructor is showing, but not the one from the locale file.

I have made a change in the svn so you can use locale keys for the fullname and description variables

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var $fullname = 'guildstats_fullname';

Will be converted to

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$roster->locale->act['guildstats_fullname']

If the locale key isn't found, then it outputs it directly

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var $fullname = 'Guild Stats';

Will display 'Guild Stats'

All the addons in roster are already converted to use this.

Cool, thanks for the help.

No, thank you
I didn't even think of enabling this to be localized

beta testing 4tw