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September 9, 2016 at 5:44 am

Hi Harry,

As the site we’re building is mainly UK based, we’d like to change the wording ‘Cart’ to ‘Basket’.

The easiest method to do this is to ‘translate’ the text to whatever you prefer. However you can’t globally change all instances of ‘cart’ in one go, any strings that use ‘cart’ as part of a string need to individually translated.

For example, translating ‘cart’ to basket will not change ‘Event Cart’ to Event Basket as it’s a different string.

Generally within EE we use ‘Event Cart’ so you could translate that to ‘Basket’ and that actually should cover most areas.

To do that you can use a function like the one shown here:

https://eventespresso.com/wiki/how-to-change-wording-with-poedit/#custom-function

Like this: https://gist.github.com/Pebblo/cde9d94c944bd6fc1a1d34d6dccd35c0

You can add that to your themes functions.php file or a Custom Functions Plugin.

It depends which feature you are using if that covers all areas you need, can you link me to the page you want to change so can see?

September 9, 2016 at 9:32 am

You’ve given me a few options, is there a ‘best’ method?

They actually both do almost exactly the same thing.

The code that outputs the cart name is this:

EED_Multi_Event_Registration::$event_cart_name = apply_filters(
			'FHEE__EED_Multi_Event_Registration__set_definitions__event_cart_name',
			__( 'Event Cart', 'event_espresso' )
		);

Josh’s example uses the filter, mine uses the translation function that the name is wrapped around – __()

Josh’s example would likely run a little quicker than mine so out of the 2 I’d go with that one an you can still add that to either functions.php or a Custom Functions Plugin.

Any problems just let us know.

September 12, 2016 at 1:07 pm

Hi Harry,

Is this due to what you were describing before about it being part of the string rather than a whole string so it won’t translate?

Yes it is. You will need to translate the entire string.

September 13, 2016 at 5:49 am

The problem here is firstly the number changes so I can’t change the whole string and also the plural of items may change.

We account for both of those situations within the translations 🙂

So this time you will need to use the translation although slightly different than the other.

Take a look at this:

https://gist.github.com/Pebblo/40b0ee35ac6841f0153498305ad4888c

Note that filter is separate from the other, you can not just add the strings to the other function.

%1$s is a place holder that dynamically adds the ticket quantity into the string.

September 13, 2016 at 9:56 am

Great 🙂

Any further questions just let us know.