tip for changing infobox titles without touching english/core.php

[blackhawk]

Here is a little trick I did. I wanted to change the title "Categories" on my infobox header to "Website Template Categories". Initially I would go into catalog/include/language/english/core.php to make that change, but since oscmax is in a fast pace development sequence right now, you can simply go to catalog/templates/yourcustomtemplate/boxes/box.tpl.php and write something like this in there...

...
<td class="infoBoxHeading" width="100%" ><?php 
                             if($boxHeading == "Categories"){
                                 echo "Website Template Categores";
                                 }else 
                                 {
                                 echo 
                                 $boxHeading;
                                 } 
                                 ?></td>
...

A quick and dirty version of system override, but at least you didn't touch the core files! Read more on box editing when you download your oscmax site and set the template in your admin to "help-text".

[pgmarshall]

Don't forget that BTS has per box templating capabilities ... just copy and change box.tpl.php in templates/<your template>/boxes/<boxname>.tpl.php

Regards,

[ridexbuilder]

...but at least you didn't touch the core files! ...

Yes you did! NEVER, never, never (is that enough emphasis?) touch files in fallback.
Jeez!

[blackhawk]

its the idea behind it, assuming people are creating there template folders based on fallback I should of addressed that!! Thanks R

[blackhawk]

Here's another method I'm experimenting with. Replace any text in your infobox columns by modifying your box.tpl.php. For example, I wanted to modify my log off text in my sign-in infobox. So I created a new box page called loginbox.tpl.php and replaced the echo $boxContent code with...

$pattern = '/Log off/';
$replacement = tep_image_submit('button_logout.gif', 'Log Out');
echo preg_replace($pattern,$replacement,$boxContent);

The above code shows that I replaced the 'Log off' text with a button called button_logout.gif (which I created and placed inside my includes/language/image/buttons folder). Then finally echo the modified $boxContent string Now when you reload your page, you'll see your text change.

[ridexbuilder]

Now then, how does that work in a multilingual environment?

[blackhawk]

not sure, but someone can try using arrays...

$patterns = array();
$patterns[0] = '/Log off/';
$patterns[1] = '/Yo get out before I bust a cap/';
$patterns[2] = '/Please Depart/';
$replacements = array();
$replacements[2] = 'language string A';
$replacements[1] = 'language string B';
$replacements[0] = 'language string C';
echo preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $boxContent);