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Hello.

I am looking for the best way to set the language in CiviEvent registration within Joomla.  This is a single-language CiviCRM install with 2-language Joomla using Joomfish. 

Currently I am doing this by: setting lcMessages in "com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Core/BAO/Setting.php" using the JFactory::getLanguage() function.  I have also modified Register.tpl, etc with {ts}..{/ts} tags.

This works, but I don't think it is the most stable way of doing it.  Is there a better way, for example by:

1) modifying one of the files in "/com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Event" such as CRM/Event/Form/Registration.php to set lcMessages?

2) modifying com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Utils/System/Joomla.php to set lcMessages?

Thanks.

I have also modified Register.tpl, etc with {ts}..{/ts} tags.

Is this a modification that could be useful to others? If so, can you share it with us, so we can put it in the next version?

This works, but I don't think it is the most stable way of doing it.  Is there a better way, for example by:

1) modifying one of the files in "/com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Event" such as CRM/Event/Form/Registration.php to set lcMessages?

2) modifying com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Utils/System/Joomla.php to set lcMessages?

I think either of these can be modified; I’m not 100% sure, but I guess both would be run before the strings are translated.

One thing you could try doing is making the Joomla! drop-down language switcher (if that’s what you’re using) trigger a CiviCRM-related page reload with the proper lcMessages set. Another approach would be to make the user go to the the CiviEvent forms through clicking a button; if that button would submit a minimal form with just the lcMessages set properly, CiviCRM should pickup the lcMessages setting from the POST variables (rather than from an explicit GET in the page’s URL).