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How to change default directory of language overrides

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I want to overwrite some language strings locally. These overrides should be documented in git and stored as a submodule in e.g. lang/de_local. For this I set at moodle:

$CFG->langlocalroot = $CFG->dirroot . '/lang';

There you can find the folders with the language strings you want to overwrite. (e.g. de_local/hvp.php)

This has always worked great in moodle. Now I wanted to do the same in Totara and unfortunately it just doesn't work. Is there any special feature that I have to consider with Totara?

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Hi Peter

Are you using Totara 13 or later - there were some changes to folder structure which may affect the location of the lang folder .

It looks like the lang folder is under the server folder

Regards

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Hi Craig,

thanks for your quick response.

I'm on totara 15 and in another instance on totara 16.

I also had $CFG->langlocalroot = $CFG->dirroot . '/server/lang';

unfortunately also without success.

Many greetings

Peter

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Hmm, did you purge caches after making the change?

The setting works for me locally -- or at least, I could break some custom translations by changing $CFG->langlocalroot to a non-existent directory. But I had to purge caches for the change to take effect.

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Hy Chris,

I have since found the problem and was able to fix it.

The problem is that $CFG->dirroot is not yet available in config.php.

If I set $CFG->langlocalroot = __DIR__ . '/server/lang';

the logic works as expected.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Yours

Peter

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Ah, tricky one! Glad you figured it out and thanks for the followup.

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