CB

Ok - had a discussion with Beat and it looks like we need to address the following:

Joomla 1.6 lnaguage files no longer have the

<backwardLang>XXXXX </backwardLang>

Which most likely means there is no longer any Joomla 1.6 API call that returns the name of the default language in Joomla (for example CB on former Joomla 1.0/1.5 environments could identify that if the default language for Joomla was el-GR then then CB would need to look in 'greek' folders for greek cb language related files).

So for Joomla 1.6 (and maybe more future proof) CB 1.4 (?) language plugins would be better to be placed in iso code folder names - example en-GB for english, el-GR for greek, etc. This way CB could trigger off the Joomla language file (en-GB.xml):

<metadata>
   <tag>en-GB</tag>
</metadata>

value and not rely on former method.

I have performed 4 trials with variations of existing CB1.3.1 english language plugin to test current installer.

trial1
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changes to existing CB 1.3 English language plugin:

All filenames remain as is:
+ index.html
+ english.xml
+ english.php
+ cbteamplugins_language.php
+ calendar-locals.js
+ admin_language.php
+ images /

Changes made:

in file english.xml:

Changed:
<name>english</name>

To:
<name>en-GB</name>

Results:
-------
Installation is fine.
All files are placed in a folder named en-gb
Deletion is also fine.

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trial2
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changes to existing CB 1.3 English language plugin:

filename changes:
+ index.html
+ english.xml -> en-GB.xml
+ english.php
+ cbteamplugins_language.php
+ calendar-locals.js
+ admin_language.php
+ images /

Changes made:

in file en-GB.xml:

Changed:
<name>english</name>

To:
<name>en-GB</name>

Results:
-------

Installation filename `en-GB` (with .xml)
does not match main php file plugin
attribute `english` in the plugin xml file

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trial3
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changes to existing CB 1.3 English language plugin:

filename changes:
+ index.html
+ english.xml -> en-GB.xml
+ english.php
+ cbteamplugins_language.php
+ calendar-locals.js
+ admin_language.php
+ images /

Changes made:

in file en-GB.xml:

Changed:
<name>english</name>

To:
<name>en-GB</name>

and changed:
<filename plugin="english">english.php</filename>
to:
<filename plugin="en-GB">english.php</filename>

Results:
-------
Installation is fine.
All files are placed in a folder named en-gb
Deletion is also fine.

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trial4
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changes to existing CB 1.3 English language plugin:

filename changes:
+ index.html
+ english.xml -> en-GB.xml
+ english.php -> frontend_language.php
+ cbteamplugins_language.php
+ calendar-locals.js
+ admin_language.php
+ images /

Changes made:

in file en-GB.xml:

Changed:
<name>english</name>

To:
<name>en-GB</name>

and changed:
<filename plugin="english">english.php</filename>
to:
<filename plugin="en-GB">frontend_language.php</filename>

Results:
-------
Installation is fine.
All files are placed in a folder named en-gb
Deletion is also fine.

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trail5
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changes to existing CB 1.3 English language plugin:

filename changes:
+ index.html
+ english.xml -> language.xml
+ english.php -> languages10.php
+ cbteamplugins_language.php
+ calendar-locals.js
+ admin_language.php
+ images /

Changes made:

in file language.xml:

Changed:
<name>english</name>

To:
<name>en-GB</name>

and changed:
<filename plugin="english">english.php</filename>
to:
<filename plugin="language">language10.php</filename>

Results:
-------
Installation is fine.
All files are placed in a folder named en-gb
Deletion is also fine.

Looks like both Beat and I (nant) feel that trial5 for CB is the proposed solution.

Based on that the following changes are also proposed for next CBSubs language plugin (and I guess GJ can also follow?):

changes to existing CB 1.3 English language plugin:

filename changes:
+ index.html
+ admin_english.php -> admin_language.php
+ english.php -> language.php
+ admin_english.php -> admin_language.php
+ cbpaidsubscriptions_english.xml -> cbsubs_language.xml
+ images /

Changes made:

in file cbsubs_language.xml:

Changed:
<name>CB Paid Subscriptions English</name>

To:
<name>CBSubs en-GB</name>

and changed:
<filename plugin="cbpaidsubscriptions_english">english.php</filename>
to:
<filename plugin="cbsubs_language">language.php</filename>