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Checking cust_text.php files

This page describes a mod which adds a new tab Check Custom Text Files to the Languages page of the Admin menu. The mod seeks to report errors in files in the languages folder, and reports its results in tables.

The first report is from Setup >> Configuration >> General Settings >> Language options, thus:

Default Language	English	I'm sure we will need to know this
Character Set	ISO-8859-1	Should check that database and all language files are consistent with this choice
Dynamic Language Change	Allow (or Disallow)	I'm sure we will need to know this

The second report checks files in the languages folder, like this example:

Folder	German	English	Spanish	French	Italian	Dutch	Norwegian
Display name	Deutsch	English	Español	Français	Italiano	Nederlands	Norsk
File admintext.php	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
File alltext.php	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
File cust_text.php	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Missing!	Missing!
File text.php	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
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The third report compiles a list of all definitions in all cust_text files, and then shows a table with a column for each language and a row for each definition, with "MIssing" in cells where the definition is missing.

Rules

• File cust_text.php must not be in the TNG root folder (see Custom text not being displayed)
• File cust_text.php should not be in the languages folder
• The first characters in cust_text.php must be "<?php"
• The last characters in cust_text.php must be "?>"
• The above two tests need repeating for cust_text.php (if found) in each language in use
• Each line beginning with "$" must terminate with ";"