Buttons for Other Languages

[quasar]

I've downloaded the German language pack, and want to install it alongside the English sections of my forum.

So far I've got things working as I need. What I am puzzled over is how to get the German buttons working.

So far I've tried installing them in the root vb install folder as images_german and also inside the images folder.

But, nothing I do is showing them up. I'd heard that this might be a problem.

Is there a way of setting it up so that I can use the buttons simultaneously without having to install a new theme dedicated to the language?

[Steve Machol]

You need to set this to the appropriate directory:

Admin CP -> Languages & Phrases -> Language Manager -> Edit Settings -> Image Folder Override

[quasar]

What format does the image folder need to be? i.e.

/imagefolder/
or
imagefolder/

?

[Steve Machol]

I believe this will work, assuming it is a subdirectory of your main forum directory:

imagefolder/

[quasar]

Nope. The forum is setup in a subdirectory, so I've tried several variations:

image_german/
/image_german/
/image_german (like in the Styles setting)

As well as adding the 'forums' subdomain in at the front in similar ways to above.

[Steve Machol]

Then you will neeed to use the full and exact path to that directory on the server. On Unix/Linux systems you can find the complete path name by telnetting or sshing into your server, going to that directory and typing:

pwd

[quasar]

That didn't work either, so I had the idea to check what the actual HTML was reading as.

From that I noticed that it was trying to find the 'buttons' folder. So I created both the direct path, and the relative path and both picked up the buttons folder and the appropriate images.

So...


/forums/images_german/buttons/

That connected me to the new buttons.

What I am confused about is the instructions on the inline help:


Image Folder Override Use this to override the images folder associated with the style being used. You may use <#> to represent the style ID the user is currently using


Serveral vBulletin images have language-specific text in them. This option lets you use images made for a different language.

You may use <#> to represent the style ID the user is currently using. This allows you to support different styles for this language. For example, you can name the images folder something like images_name of language_style ID of style and then set this setting to images_name of language_<#>

It might be worth in the next up date (perhaps) adding in that it relates to the buttons folder only.

Thanks for the help. Glad it's sorted now... :)

[msolano]

Thanks quasar: i had this same problems since some days ago 'cause I thought that the Image Folder Override was about override ALL the image folder.

Now it works in my spanish forum.
Thanks again!

[quasar]

Glad you got it sorted. Nice to be able to help in some way.

[Alexey Titievsky]

Glad you got it sorted. Nice to be able to help in some way.

Thanks from my site too! Your way worked out!