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Setting default language in config - JackWhite - 09-06-2016
Hello!
I'm using the latest CI version.
Currently, I'm trying to set up multi language support for my website.
In application/config/config.php the default $config['language'] is set to 'english'.
It's working as it should, and loads the application/language/english/english_lang.php file.
But when I change the $config['language'] to something else, for example, polish, it gives me an error:
Unable to load the requested language file: language/polish/english_lang.php
Why is it trying to load english_lang.php and not polish_lang.php from the application/language/polish folder?
Hope to get some input on this.
Best regards.
RE: Setting default language in config - ciadmin - 09-06-2016
Have you copied the appropriate language folders from https://github.com/bcit-ci/codeigniter3-translations into your application/language folder?
Code:
$this->lang->load('error_messages', 'english');
echo $this->lang->line('error1'); // looks in system/language/english/error_messages_lang.php
$this->lang->load('error_messages', 'polish');
echo $this->lang->line('error1'); // looks in application/language/polish/error_messages_lang.phpRE: Setting default language in config - JackWhite - 09-06-2016
(09-06-2016, 06:32 AM)ciadmin Wrote: Have you copied the appropriate language folders from https://github.com/bcit-ci/codeigniter3-translations into your application/language folder?
Code:$this->lang->load('error_messages', 'english');
echo $this->lang->line('error1'); // looks in system/language/english/error_messages_lang.php
$this->lang->load('error_messages', 'polish');
echo $this->lang->line('error1'); // looks in application/language/polish/error_messages_lang.php
When I'm loading the language with your example, everything works fine.
The problem is when I set different language than english in the config.php file to use as the default language.
When I set $config['language'] = 'polish';
It gives error: Unable to load the requested language file: language/polish/english_lang.php
Shouldn't it be loading language/polish/polish_lang.php instead of language/polish/english_lang.php?
Sure, I can set my messages for polish language in the language/polish/english_lang.php file, but that doesn't make much sense to me at the moment.
RE: Setting default language in config - ciadmin - 09-06-2016
Hmm. something sounds funny, because there is no "english_lang.php" language settings file in CI.
If using language "x", CI looks inside system/language/x/ for specific language files, and then inside application/language/x/
RE: Setting default language in config - InsiteFX - 09-06-2016
ciadmin is correct there is no english_lang.php file in CodeIgniter.
The only specification is directory english.
RE: Setting default language in config - JackWhite - 09-07-2016
Ok, I seem to have figured it out.
In autoload.php I had set $autoload['language'] = array('english');
That's why it was trying to load english_lang.php.
Thanks for your input guys!