Solved Variable name displayed instead of value

I have just updated from V5.1.10 to V5.1.10.1 on both my local test site and my live site.

Everything is fine on my local test site:
Joomla 3.9.3
CB 2.4.1
PHP 7.2.9

But on my live site:
Joomla 3.9.3
CB 2.4.1
PHP 7.0.33

variable names from the en-GB.com_kunena.templates.ini file are being displayed instead of the value when I display the list of topics in a category. E.g.

"COM_KUNENA_GEN_HITS" instead of "Views"
"COM_KUNENA_GEN_REPLIES" instead of "Replies"
"COM_KUNENA_GEN_LAST_POST" instead of "Last Post"
"COM_KUNENA_VIEW_COMMON_FOOTER_TIME " instead of "Time to create page: n seconds"

I have compared the local and live copies of en-GB.com_kunena.templates.ini and they are identical. I have copied the live file to my local test site and there are no problems.

Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? The only real difference between the two sites is the PHP version, but according to the Kunena Requirements both versions of PHP are within spec.

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Kunena menu details:

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ID	Name	Menutype	Link	Path	In trash
1029	Club Forum	commercial-usermenu	view=home&defaultmenu=913	menuitem-club-forum-commercial	No
1030	Club Forum	honorary-usermenu	view=home&defaultmenu=913	menuitem-club-forum-honorary	No
923	Kunena Forum	usermenu	view=home&defaultmenu=913	menuitem-club-forum-members	No
922	Forum	mainmenu	Itemid=912	kunena-2018-09-07	No
912	Forum	kunenamenu	view=home&defaultmenu=914	kunena	No
913	Index	kunenamenu	view=category&layout=list&catid=0	kunena/index	No
914	Recent Topics	kunenamenu	view=topics&mode=replies	kunena/recent	No
915	Unread	kunenamenu	view=topics&layout=unread	kunena/unread	No
916	New Topic	kunenamenu	view=topic&layout=create	kunena/newtopic	No
917	No Replies	kunenamenu	view=topics&mode=noreplies	kunena/noreplies	No
918	Your Topics	kunenamenu	view=topics&layout=user&mode=default	kunena/mylatest	No
919	Your Forum Profile	kunenamenu	view=user	kunena/profile	No
920	Help	kunenamenu	view=misc	kunena/help	No
921	Search	kunenamenu	view=search	kunena/search	No

Joomla default template details : abs2016 | author: Angie Radtke | version: 3.1.0 | creationdate: 25 November 2009

Kunena default template details : Crypsis | author: Kunena Team | version: 5.1.10.1 | creationdate: 2019-03-04

Kunena template params:

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DefaultCategoryicon
profileIconset	default
DefaultIconset	default
editorIconset	default
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templatebyText
templatebyName
templatebyLink

Kunena version detailed: Kunena 5.1.10.1 | 2019-03-04 [ Janus ]
| Kunena detailed configuration:

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Kunena config settings:
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threads_per_page	20
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| Joomla! detailed language files installed:

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Joomla! languages installed:
en-GB	English (en-GB)

Third-party components: CommunityBuilder 2.4.1

Third-party SEF components: None

Plugins: None

Modules: None

Please try to install the Kunena language package.
If you install Kunena, the path for the English language are:
/administrator/components/com_kunena/language/en-GB/
and
/components/com_kunena/language/en-GB/

But if you install the language package extra, the files will saved in the folders:
/administrator/language/en-GB/
and
/language/en-GB/

Maybe it help.

Thank you for your suggestion. We only have en-GB installed but I re-installed the language pack anyway, just in case. Unfortunatelt it made no difference, so my next step will be to see if moving to PHP 7.2 will sort it out.

Thanks for trying

It might help other people, if they encounter this problem, to know that I solved it by upgrading to PHP to 7.1.26. There are reason why we can't go to 7.2 yet, so this is a good interim solution that works

I am having the same problem but this solution hasn't worked for me. It started when I upgraded to the latest version. I posted on this forum with the report and a screen shot as the site suggests but my posting has been deleted after a couple of days for some reason with no explanation. I have only recently moved to this forum solution having previously used WebWiz for the last 13 years. It has taken some convincing to get my users to accept the change but this bug isn't helping my argument with them.
I attach a screen shot to hopefully confirm that I am talking about the same issue.

It certainly looks like the same problem as I had. The only other idea I had was that it could be a template incompatibility. Although we have a bespoke template for Joomla!, I've set Kunena up to open in a new window using the Protostar template for the Kunena Menu and the Kunena Crypsis Menu for the forums. Just an idea.

@andycoe1960

No one has deleted your post. I've the topic only moved in the correct category for Blue Eagle. www.kunena.org/forum/blue-eagle-5
Users who bought the template, get automatically access to this category. If does not work, then send a mail an jelle@*kunena.org please (address without star).

Hello,

If you enable debug language in Joomla! setting, do-you see that the file en-GB.com_kunena.templates.ini is right loaded ?

This bug is already fixed.