Facing problem to locate language file I created

Facing problem to locate language file I created

by Sandeep Gupta -
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I am developing a new feature, named Data Importer.

For this; I created a menu folder (data_importer), insider folder admin.

Inside data_importer folder, I created language folder(lang); and inside lang, we have en_utf8 folder.

Inside en_utf8, I created a language file, where all the names is stored in the used for the Data Importer feature.

 

The problem I am facing with it, is that, these functions get_string() or print_string() could not able to locate the string with the file name(I created).

It doesn’t work; so my question is, what should I do so that the get_string() or print_string() functions recognize the language file I created.

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Re: Facing problem to locate language file I created

by Tim Hunt -
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You cannot just put a folder of code anywhere. You have to put it in one of the recognised places.

For example, you could put the feature in local/data_importer, and so the lang strings are in local/data_importer/lang/en/data_importer.php, then you can access them as get_string('whatever', 'local_data_importer');

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Re: Facing problem to locate language file I created

by Sandeep Gupta -

I have modified my code and follow your instruction by moving the whole bunch of code to local and created the language file as you said; still I couldn't able to access the language file by get_string() located at local/data_importer/lang/en/data_importer.php

 

Is still I am missing any bit?

Thanks for your help.

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Re: Facing problem to locate language file I created

by Tim Hunt -
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Ah, what I said will only work in Moodle 2.0. Is that the problem?

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Re: Facing problem to locate language file I created

by Sandeep Gupta -

Sorry but currenty, I m using, Moodle 1.9.10

Do I have to mention the language file name somewhere else to use the function get_string()?

Thanks for looking into this matter.

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Re: Facing problem to locate language file I created

by David Mudrák -
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I would recommend to implement your plugin as admin report called dataimporter (note there is no underscore). Put it into /admin/report/dataimporter folder (see other /admin/report for examples).

The English strings for your report should then go into the file /lang/en_utf8/report_dataimporter.php (again see other report_* files as a template).

Your get_string() calls will then look like

get_string('helloworld', 'report_dataimporter');

Have fun!

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