Adding fields to Template (additional question) Solved

[uhanke]

I have an own Template which is based on Template 12.

Now i want to make it multilangual - german and english.

For this i need at least 2 more textfields. i checked TNG-Wiki, but didnt find any what can help me. Maybe my english is not good enough or i dont use the right words to search.

Can someone tell me which procedure handles the setup?  - Adding fields, type, size and position for Templatemanager. Also i like to change the naming of fields for Templatemanager, but this is not mandantory.

[Bill Herndon]

If all you need is an additional two text fields, you can add them directly to the _templateconfig.php file for your version Template 12.  The Template Manager mod will insert these into the database when you use the <Load> function for your version of Template 12:

A new template parameter and its German variant would look something like (assuming English is the default):

$tmp['12_mytextfield'] = "fridge";
$tmp['12_mytextfield_German-UTF8'] = "Kühlschrank";

The limitation here is that all parameters not known to TNG are treated as simple text input fields for purposes of display/input in the Admin screen.  There is an array in TNG (I don't remember the variable name) that contains all the 'known' TNG template parameters.  For this reason, I recommend *NOT* changing template parameter names from the base template unless you absolutely have to.  In fact in the templates I've published to the Wiki, I often choose parameters from many templates so that I have a selection names/types known to TNG.

Hope this helps and happy to answer any other questions.

Bill Herndon

Lindell-Herndon Genealogy

 

 

[uhanke]

Thank you Bill. I will do that tomorrow. It is midnight here in Germany.

Uli

 

[uhanke]

Thank you Bill,

Your advice helped me. Now i have what i wanted.

Now one more question. is it easy to change or insert text for the naming? See my red arrows in picture.

Uli

 

[Bill Herndon]

Uli... Field labels in administration screens need to have values in the appropriate TNG language files.  It's been a while since I did this for a Mod or template, but i think the array is 'admtext'.  A field label declaration must match the field name you used in the _templateconfig.php file when you loaded the database.  For example, if your field name is identified by 'myinputfield', then the declaration for the German UTF8 language file (languages/German-UTF8/cust_text.php) is:

$admtext['myinputfield'] = "Meine Label ";

My own templates use a Mod just for loading the language strings, but you can do these manually as well.

k/r

Bill

 

[Ken Roy]

Uli

you may want to take a look at Creating a new template - TNG v12 on what is needed to allow you to update the fields using the Template Settings in a multi-language environment