Missing translation string

HotEcommerce with Joomla 1.7.3 and Virtuemart 2.0
Core Multilanguage enabled

On the product detail page there are two tabs. They are named "Description" and "Image Gallery". I need them to be translated into german language in my multilanguage envirement of joomla.

Therefore, i guess there has to be added some code in templates/hot_ecommerce/html/com_virtuemart/productdetails/default.php in order to be able to add some language strings. But i don't know how to do this in detail.

Can you please help me with this?

You have joomla language system using ini files in language folder. Default are en-GB , you need to have ones having "virtuemart" in their name in German folder having translations for that phrases.

Yes, that is clear. What i mean is, that especially these two words are not "prepared" for translation, because they come out of the default.php. There ist no string defined so that i could add it in language file. So this is template-based. Normally, one can use the existing string in language. But it is not ready to use in this case.

Sorry you are right , there are totally hard coded in

templates\hot_ecommerce\html\com_virtuemart\productdetails\default.php


also instead of simple text change you can replace them with:


so you could use ini files system :
COM_VIRTUEMART_IMAGE_GALLERY="..."
COM_VIRTUEMART_DESCRIPTION="..."

YES! That is exactly what i need. Thank your for the example of right coding. That did it! I did not know how to use in J17. Learning Cycles lasts forever

Thank you!