Per-Group Overrides
gcassie - January 23, 2009 - 15:10
| Project: | String Overrides |
| Version: | 6.x-1.7 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | needs review |
Description
I had a project (now abandoned) where string overrides were to be managed on a per-group basis. The idea was to use the nid in place of the language code. Here is about as far as I got; its just proof of concept at this stage, but it works.
<?php
function og_stringoverride_nodeapi(&$node, $op, $a3 = NULL, $a4 = NULL) {
// okay the concept works. next steps would be:
// add a UI on a per-node level
// figure out how to propagate parent overrides to children in a sub-group setup
// create a new table to store this in. it could get out of hand if the
// variables is used. load in those values here.
// what impact does this have on multi-lingual sites?
global $language;
global $conf;
if ($op == 'load' && $language->language == 'en') {
$language->language = $node->nid;
$conf['locale_custom_strings_1'] = array('My Unread' => 'Unread that is mine');
}
}
?>I wanted to do this for a site where there were dozens of system strings that were generally the same from group to group, but would sometimes need to be tweaked on just one. I thought this would be a nice way to handle it instead of adding dozens of CCK fields or the like.
Hope someone finds this concept useful.