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Joomla multi language problem when trying to change menu item from ‘All’ to a specific language

November 15, 2013/2 Comments/in Joomla/by Stefan Helander

When setting up a Joomla site for multilanguage you need to set a default menu item for each language. However, sometimes it is not possible to change a default menu item currently set to language "All". The error message displayed is:

"Warning Save failed with the following error: The Language parameter for this menu item must be set to 'All'. At least one Default menu item must have Language set to All, even if the site is multilingual."

A solution is to do the following:

Select the menu item by checking the checkbox for it to the left in the menu items list.
Then scroll down to the batch change item (found under the list of menu items).
In the drop down list "Select language" you select the language you wish to set the menu item to.
In the drop down list "Select Menu or parent for Move/Copy", select the menu where item currently is located in.
Select the Move radio button
Click Proceed.

Problem solved!

Multi language slogan or logo in Joomla!

October 26, 2011/0 Comments/in Joomla, Linux/FreeBSD, Web design/by Stefan Helander

When setting up a site in Joomla 1.5 for multiple languages JoomFish is the tool for you (Joomla 2.5 has native multi language support). But there are some things in Joomla that JoomFish can’t handle, like the slogan for example. This is one way of making a language dependent slogan.

Create a file called en-GB.tpl_your_template_name_here.ini in language/en-GB (replace "your_template_name_here" with the actual name of your template).
Insert a line like this in the file you just created:
SLOGAN=Your slogan in english here
Repeat the above steps for all languages you are supporting in your site, replacing en-GB in the directory and file name with the language codes for each language and the slogan in the corresponding language, for example sv-SE/sv-SE.tpl_your_template_name_here.ini for Swedish.
Edit your template’s index.php file and find the line that outputs the slogan. It will look something like this:
<?php echo $slogan;?>
or
<?php echo $this->params->get('siteSlogan'); ?>
Replace the line with this:
<?php echo JText::_('Slogan'); ?>

This will give you slogans displayed in different languages but to change the slogan, the above ini-files must be edited (the template slogan parameter will no longer have effect).

The same method can be used if you want to have different logos displayed for different languages.

Getting “An error occurred while updating object. lang ()” in PrestaShop

June 3, 2011/4 Comments/in Linux/FreeBSD, PrestaShop/by Stefan Helander

If you get the error message "An error occurred while updating object. lang ()" when updating a language in PrestaShop, this is caused when the system doesn’t have permissions to write in the .htaccess-file in your root directory.

If the file does not exist, just create an empty .htaccess-file and make sure it is writeable by the user running the webserver process, for example by issuing:

chmod 666 .htaccess

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