I'm new to Joomla and K2 but am familiar with PHP sites

 

I'm trying to use K2 for my product catalog.

 

I want the comments form at the bottom of each item page to be used for "reviews".

 

So where it says "Leave a comment", I need it to say, "Leave a review".

 

How do I accomplish this?

Look at YourSiteRoot/Components/com_k2/templates/default/Item_comments_form.php line 14 in k2 2.4.1

Thanks a bunch, William, but I tried that already and it doesn't seem to have any affect on the page.

 

I just realized that the comments system isn't even working - when I try to submit a comment, the spinning graphic just shows up and nothing else happens. So I may have bigger issues that just changing the text. I'm running this on a local WAMP server, but I don't see how that would change anything.

 

What would help me is to understand what this line of code is doing, and others like it:

 

JText::_('K2_LEAVE_A_COMMENT')"

 

Is the text "K2_LEAVE_A_COMMENT" some sort of variable or object? Is there a 'variables.ini' file somewhere that defines what the output actually will be? If that text produces "Leave a Comment" on the page, then some additional processing is happening.

 

I see a lot of these "JText::" echoes, what is that doing? Is it some sort of augmented string output?

 

Thanks for taking the time to try and help me with this issue. I really do appreciate it.

 

Randy

 

 

 


William White said:

Look at YourSiteRoot/Components/com_k2/templates/default/Item_comments_form.php line 14 in k2 2.4.1

Just try changing the text inside the single quotes

for info on jtext see here

Well, I think I'm losing my mind.

 

No changes I make to the /Components/com_k2/templates/default/Item_comments_form.php file make any difference on my product pages. 

 

In fact, I can delete the entire /templates/ folder from the /com_k2/ folder without any affect on my product page item  display. Serious. 

 

When I delete the /views/ folder, I'll get a fatal error on the product page so I know I'm not in the wrong site root.

 

I'm using the beta SVN version on my Joomla 1.6.3 installation. Could this be the cause? 

 

Do you know of any discussion boards for the SVN beta?

 

Thanks again for your help - i really do appreciate it.

 

I am working on the K2 v2.5 (SVN) and i changed the default value to  <?php echo JText::_('SING TO ME PLEASE') ?> and it works fine.

Ok - thanks for confirming this. I do think I have bigger issues going on though.. This is my 2nd installation of Joomla and K2 v2.5 on my local WAMP server. After I installed the 2nd site in a new folder, the first installation's template totally disappeared. I don't understand how the two installations could be conflicting with each other, because each is in it's own separate folder and each uses it's own database in MyPHPAdmin.

I think there is a conflict though. If I can completely delete the /templates/ folder from the /siteroot/components/com_K2/ directory and it doesn't make any difference when I reload my item page, it obviously must be getting that template structure from somewhere else.

 

I appreciate all the help. If, after solving my bigger issues, I still can't change that text, I'll post back.

Are you using the MVC templating ? Is there a folder in root/templates/html/com_k2/templates/[folders] , could it be that your category is using a different layout template ?

Holy smokes, you're right!

The k2 templates are embedded in my JSN Dome template...

So my folder structure is, /root/templates/jsn_dome/html/com_k2/templates/default/

 

It works! - Thank You!

 

Now I just need to figure out why the comments form does not work...

 

When I hit the submit button, the spinner graphic appears but nothing else happens. I wonder if maybe because the templates are running out of a separate directory than the controller files, no data is actually being processed and written to the database.

 

Any thoughts?

The Form Action in the correct item_comments_form.php file is this: "echo JURI::root(); ?>index2.php"

 

JURI::root() prints out the URL of the root directory. then tacks index2.php on the end, so it's posting the data to, http://localhost/root/index2.php, a page that does not exist.

 

Thanks again for all the help!

The form action code should be :

 

<form action="<?php echo JRoute::_('index.php'); ?>" method="post" id="comment-form" class="form-validate">

 

Not sure why yours is different, try changing it..

Kannan, you are my hero.

 

Oddly though, the K2 test site has the exact same form action code that I did, "<form action="demo.getk2.org/index2.php" method="post" id="comment-form" class="form-validate">"

 

That's from this page: demo.getk2.org/en/blog-entry?start=30

 

Anyway, thank you for helping me out with this, or really solving it for me. I really do appreciate your time and brain-power.

No prob, today it's me, maybe some other day you might solve my problem too :D. Glad it worked out.