German and Spanish Versions Crashing with New Index Page Text

[Tony Awards]

I have been trying to set up osc with the German and Spanish versions. The data that I plug into the new product fields works fine, but when I attempt to insert copy into the home page, or shipping, privacy, or conditions pages, it crashes the site and nothing will show at all.

 

Has anyone else had this issue? I have been very careful to insert the text into the correct spot, and everything looks right, so why could this be happening?

[♥geoffreywalton]

Try putting xxxin the german privacy.php and see if it still crashes.

 

If it does overwrite the german privacy.php with the english.php.

 

Now you know if it is the text you are trying to use, the file being corrupt or the code.

[Tony Awards]

I placed xxx in the German index.php page as you suggested, and no problem. It displays fine as xxx. So then I inserted the English version of the text in the German page file, and once again, no problem. English text on the German page. But when I use the German text (translated by Google, but it's all I've got) it crashed.

 

I looked at the code in the text and all there is are <br/> and <strong></strong> tags. I even replaced those with plain old <br> and <b></b> tags, but it made no difference. Still crashes. And the text I am inserting is just plain text, coming from a Notepad++ file. Other translated text that I have in the same Notepad++ file and have used for product descriptions causes no trouble, so I don't think it's a corrupted text file, but... who knows?.

 

The error message I keep getting is:

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/mysite/public_html/catalog/includes/languages/german/index.php on line 13

 

BTW, it's also doing it to the Spanish files, I've discovered. Index, privacy, shipping, conditions, as well as the German ones. All with the same error.

 

Any ideas?

[germ]

define('TEXT_MAIN', 'can\'t won\'t don\'t isn\'t');

Check your text for apostrophes and be sure they have a \ preceding them as shown above.

 

Alternately, if you want the PHP parser to be oblivious of the apostrophes, this code is equivilant to the same code above:

 

define('TEXT_MAIN', <<<END
can't won't don't isn't
END
);

Just more "user friendly".

;)

[Tony Awards]

I don't know why that was causing problems with the German and Spanish files, and not affecting the English pages, but I guess it was...

 

That did it - all index and site data pages now work perfectly well.

 

Thank you, germ - great fix.