Why do you think the current solution is not nice? Please let us know and we may either improve it or use the Joomla ini.
G'day, Max.
This is my first post on this forum. I have been trialling
Chronoforum for a couple of says and I am quite impressed with its relative easy of use.
Some people may know a little about me as one of the guys who was involved with
Kunena over the past 8 years or so. With some regrets I feel that it's time now for me to part ways with that forum software, bite the bullet, and get back to doing something I actually enjoy. My main enjoyment is helping people.
Although there is nothing seriously wrong with the date format being "D M j, Y, g:i a", I agree with some
other comments I've read on this forum that it may not suit everyone's tastes. Further, it's not entirely clear from the answers offered in this forum exactly where the language file is located. (For those who are wondering, the language file is
../components/com_chronoforums/locales/<locale-name>/lang.php)
I have a simple question, when it will be ready ini-based language strings in frontend, because the current solution is not really nice.
It's not just that the current method is not particularly "nice", it means that when you make changes to these files and implement them on your website, the changes will be lost when a new version of
Chronoforums is installed. Further, as the original poster implies, the .INI-based language approach is consistent with Joomla standards since J! 1.6 (that's nearly five years ago) and most of us are accustomed to using language overrides in Joomla in order to adapt those string constants we're not entirely "happy" with.
This is not a trivial change, of course, and I don't expect the developers of
Chronoforum to accomplish the change overnight. However, in my opinion, this kind of change—"separating" the language translation out of the component and letting Joomla do most of the work—would make a big difference to the product.
Undoubtedly I will have more questions to ask but I appreciate the opportunity you have given me to introduce myself in this manner and I hope this will be the beginning of a warm and constructive collaboration.
