Merged K 3.0 buttons display constant names

[strike]Hello, hoping someone can help with this. I've recently upgraded Kunena to v3.0.3, everything has gone fine except that now once I go into a category or topic the button labels are showing things like:

COM_KUNENA_BUTTON_TOPIC_REPLY
COM_KUNENA_BUTTON_TOPIC_SUBSCRIBE

and so on..

I've tried switching templates but that didn't seem to help, any ideas?

Thanks[/strike]


Very Sorry - search is a wonderful thing, found a thread covering this issue.

*** Topics merged ***

For everyone else, this is the topic that rooster790 was referring to.

Hello again,

the text on the reply etc., buttons has changed in an odd way after upgrade from K1.7.0 to K3.0.4

before:


after:


It is like it's using the tags for some labels instead of the text from those tags.

I am about to disable a couple of plugins from advice from another thread. Will report back if that fixes it.
EDIT: OK I just disabled those and its still same. I have updated the config below to reflect after the disable.

Here's config:

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Joomla! SEF: Disabled | Joomla! SEF rewrite: Enabled | FTP layer: Disabled |

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htaccess: Exists | PHP environment: Max execution time: 90 seconds | Max execution memory: 128M | Max file upload: 64M

Kunena menu details:

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ID	Name	Menutype	Link	Path
554	KForum	mainmenu	view=home&defaultmenu=571	explore/and-more/forum-entry
581	Forum	mainmenu	view=category&catid=0&layout=list	2011-10-08-00-16-00
600	FAQ	mainmenu	view=misc	faq
601	Search	mainmenu	view=search	search
602	Policies	mainmenu	view=misc	policies
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651	Index	kunenamenu	view=category&layout=list	forum/index
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653	New Topic	kunenamenu	view=topic&layout=create	forum/newtopic
654	No Replies	kunenamenu	view=topics&mode=noreplies	forum/noreplies
655	My Topics	kunenamenu	view=topics&layout=user&mode=default	forum/mylatest
656	Profile	kunenamenu	view=user	forum/profile
657	Help	kunenamenu	view=misc	forum/help
658	Search	kunenamenu	view=search	forum/search
659	Forum	mainmenu	Itemid=650	kunena-2013-12-28

Joomla default template details : ja_graphite | author: JoomlArt.com | version: 1.0.5 | creationdate: Unknown

Kunena default template details : Blue Eagle | author: Kunena Team | version: 3.0.4 | creationdate: 2013-12-22

Kunena version detailed: Kunena 3.0.4 | 2013-12-22 [ Ukko ]
| Kunena detailed configuration:

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Kunena config settings:
board_offline	0
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Kunena - AlphaUserPoints Disabled
Kunena - Community Builder Enabled: access=1 login=1 activity=0 avatar=1 profile=1 private=0
Kunena - Gravatar Disabled
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Kunena - Joomla Enabled: access=1 login=1
Kunena - Kunena Enabled: avatar=1 profile=1
Kunena - UddeIM Enabled: private=1

| Joomla! detailed language files installed:

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

Third-party components: CommunityBuilder 1.9.1 | UddeIM 3.2

Third-party SEF components: None

Plugins: None

Modules: Kunena Latest 3.0.1

When buttons have that issue it is likely due to languages not installing correctly. Those long pieces of text are keys used to identify where to put language translations.

Try to reinstall Kunena (do not remove Kunena first). Sometimes this fixes the issue for bad language installation. If you are using a different language you must look in the language pack given on our download page at kunena.org/download . Hope this helps.

Typically, what happens when symbolic names show instead of more "meaningful" button labels, is that there was a folder permission issue that resulted in Kunena not being properly installed (even if you might have seen the message during the installation procedure that says "Kunena was successfully installed" - not everything may be perfect :pinch: but sometimes some informative messages might easily be overlooked).

The button labels are contained in the language file . If one (or all) of the language files were not installed properly what happens is that button labels are left "untranslated". The way to resolve this problem is to review the Joomla folder and file permissions (see Securing Kunena ) and make sure that all folders and files are set according to the settings as recommended by Joomla. As a minimum, the release notes for K 3.0.4 have information that should assist.

After reviewing folder permissions and making any changes that may be needed, reinstalling K 3.0.4 should fix these kinds of problems. That's the theory, anyway. I hope this helps.

coder4life wrote: When buttons have that issue it is likely due to languages not installing correctly. Those long pieces of text are keys used to identify where to put language translations.

Try to reinstall Kunena (do not remove Kunena first). Sometimes this fixes the issue for bad language installation. If you are using a different language you must look in the language pack given on our download page at kunena.org/download . Hope this helps.

I dug into it a bit and could see the line where it gets the text inside

components/com_kunena/template/blue_eagle/template.php

put in some debug and could see it bringing back the wrong text. I thought it might have been a case issue so I used strtoupper() to make sure both $name and $scope were both uppercase as I could see in the browser inspector that they were lower case but that wasn't the issue. Oh well.

Next I made a copy of public_html on my test site and then reinstalled Kunena.
The reinstall fixed the problem.
Did a diff -rq between the two folders to see what changed and the most noticeable things was that several language folders that were in the old install were not in the new. That's back to front to what I expected.
So did the same thing on the live site with same result. here's the diff:
Hope that helps.