I've checked the language FAQ and found the Q and A to "How can I find where a language string is located?" I followed the instructions and checked the relevant checkbox in Debugging, returned to a course page, added ?strings=1 to the end of the URL and reloaded, as instructed. Nothing had changed and I couldn't see any information on the language string.
Have I missed something? (It's very likely as my skills are more in teaching than in the technical stuff!)
Thanks for any help
Keith
Which particular string are you looking for?
No particular string just now. I can find the strings I need to modify via the "Language Customisation" under "Site Admin". But when I saw there was maybe a way to find a particular string from a particular page I got excited about that.
Recently I wanted to modify the Swedish version. The button was "Next" in English, "Nästa" in Swedish, and in just that particular situation the Swedish word term "Fortsätta" was better.
I searched the whole language pack for "nästa" and as you can imagine I got a lot of hits. In most of them the use of "nästa" was correct and it took a while to search through them all and change just the ones I needed to change.
I thought the string=1 (or ?string=1) could speed up the process by allowing me to find the exact string directly. But so far I haven't got it to work.
(Thanks for a very quick response!)
Brilliant - Thanks David.
In the instructions in Moodle under - Site Admin, Development, Debugging - the ? mark is missing.
This option is designed to help translators. When this option is enabled, if you add the parameter strings=1 to a request URL, it will show the language file and string id beside each string that is output.
Well, it's not that easy. The question mark is not always there, you may need to add &strings=1 in certain situations, Pages like this provide more details.
Thanks David for the information which I've made a note of in the documentation Debugging. Anyone please feel free to add to or amend the information.
Thanks for updating the debugging documentation Helen.
Could you do the same for the Language FAQ, found here...
https://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Language_FAQ#How_can_I_find_where_a_language_string_is_located.3F
Regards
Keith
Thanks Keith, I have amended Language FAQ. Feel free to do so yourself next time. You can log in to Moodle Docs with your moodle.org username and password.
Thanks Helen, both for the amendment and the info that I can change these things myself. I didn't realise that!
I practiced by amending the Language FAQ in the 2.6 information, which is the one Mid Sweden University are using at the moment. Now I'll move on and amend the 2.6 debugging text in the same way! Learning by doing!!
Thanks a lot Keith for your contributions to the 2.6 documentation. Please feel free to do as I do and make a note in the docs of anything new that you learn about Moodle.
Ok, with that last bit of extra information (?strings=1 or &strings=1 ) I seem to have it working on every page I visit. Thanks for the link to the wikipedia page too.
Thanks again.
Keith
If you are using a server linux, you can find by terminal administrstion, editing directly on php application file.
First search the sentence using this command
Langdir of moodle application directory
Sebtence who you need to change
# find /langdir | xargs grep -s -a -i sentence | cut -d : -f 1 | uniq
The results are the files wich has the sentence, just edit then
!! Be careful!! Its for advanced users
