Your comment forms in French or any other languages Print
By Patrick LEFÈVRE published on 2011 12 24

The comment system included in Textpattern seems to divide the community: some refuse it on the grounds that TXP is primarily a CMS (without this necessity) on the other hand it seems that other wants to enhance it (Stef Dawson is working on a specific plugin). Nevertheless, the use of comments in a multilingual site is hampered by the inability to translate the labels of input fields.

Until a formal integration into Textpattern here is a solution by hacking the file /textpattern/publish/comment.php.

Open this file hopelessly monolingual ;) then see the line #55 to change it like this:

2. function commentForm($id, $atts=NULL)
3. {
4. global $prefs;
5. extract($prefs);
7. extract(lAtts(array(
8. 'isize' => '25',
9. 'msgrows' => '5',
10. 'msgcols' => '25',
11. 'msgstyle' => '',
12. 'form' => 'comment_form',
13. 'previewlabel' => gTxt('preview'),
14. 'submitlabel' => gTxt('submit'),
15. 'rememberlabel' => gTxt('remember'),
16. 'forgetlabel' => gTxt('forget')
17. ),$atts, 0));

This change begins at the line above numbered #13 by adding some few new attributes:

• previewlabel
• submitlabel
• rememberlabel
• forgetlabel

These attributes include by default the titles of the current language of your TXP administration interface. That are injected from the #160 into the same file:

2. // by default, the submit button is visible but disabled
3. $comment_submit_button = fInput('submit', 'submit', $submitlabel, 'button disabled', '', '', '', '', 'txpCommentSubmit', true);
5. // if all fields checkout, the submit button is active/clickable
6. if ($preview) {
7. $comment_submit_button = fInput('submit', 'submit', $submitlabel, 'button', '', '', '', '', 'txpCommentSubmit', false);
8. }
10. if ($checkbox_type = = 'forget')
11. {
12. // inhibit default remember
13. if ($forget == 1)
14. {
15. destroyCookies();
16. }
18. $checkbox = checkbox('forget', 1, $forget, '', 'forget').' '.tag($forgetlabel, 'label', ' for="forget"');
19. }
21. else
22. {
23. // inhibit default remember
24. if ($remember != 1)
25. {
26. destroyCookies();
27. }
29. $checkbox = checkbox('remember', 1, $remember, '', 'remember').' '.tag($rememberlabel, 'label', ' for="remember"');
30. }
32. $checkbox .= ' '.hInput('checkbox_type', $checkbox_type);
34. $vals = array(
35. 'comment_name_input' => fInput('text', 'name', htmlspecialchars($name), 'comment_name_input'.($namewarn ? ' comments_error' : ''), '', '', $isize, '', 'name'),
36. 'comment_email_input' => fInput('email', 'email', htmlspecialchars($email), 'comment_email_input'.($emailwarn ? ' comments_error' : ''), '', '', $isize, '', 'email'),
37. 'comment_web_input' => fInput('url', 'web', htmlspecialchars($web) , 'comment_web_input', '', '', $isize, '', 'web'),
38. 'comment_message_input' => $textarea.'<!-- plugin-place-holder -->',
39. 'comment_remember' => $checkbox,
40. 'comment_preview' => fInput('submit', 'preview', $previewlabel, 'button', '', '', '', '', 'txpCommentPreview', false),
41. 'comment_submit' => $comment_submit_button
42. );

Here is, as it should occur, the final file and the checksum code 1592bbd8618aa51745185f4fe9465fcf has changed into /textpattern/checksum.txt file in order to benefit of the security system features.

Now you are the masters of the world, since you can build your multilingual comment modules, i.e. a module named “comment_form” (“comment” type):

2. <txp:hide>
4. ** comment.php file hacked: previewlabel, submitlabel, rememberlabel, forgetlabel attributes added for multi-language translations support
6. </txp:hide>
7. <txp:comments_form previewlabel="Aperçu" submitlabel="Envoyer" rememberlabel="Mémoriser mes informations" forgetlabel="Supprimer mes informations" />

That is exactly what’s in use in this txp-fr.net website!

Now you have no excuse to integrate the French language into your websites, or any other language ;)

Note: This feature is added in TXP 4.5.0

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