$confirmation['title'] ?? Where is it set?

[senortim]

My client wants me to change the text on the Check/Money Order section of the confirmation page (Step 3). However, while I've found where it's set, I cannot find where the variable that prints the message is set -- not in Dev Tools, searching the Zencart files on my computer, or looking in the database.

From "tpl_checkout_confirmation_default.php" (lines 38-45):
<?php
if (is_array($payment_modules->modules)) {
if ($confirmation = $payment_modules->confirmation()) {
?>
<div class="important"><?php echo $confirmation['title']; ?></div>
<?php
}
?>

$confirmation['title'] prints a big block of info, but all I want to change is the last line. Here is the text I want to wrap with a style:
Your order will not ship until we receive payment.

They have to be set somewhere. Anyone know where?

Thanks!
Tim

[senortim]

The solution to my problem I found in http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=103706

The text to edit is in includes/languages/english/modules/payment

You can set both the text that shows on the web page and in the confirmation email sent to the customer.

STILL... I would appreciate someone telling me how this info got into the $confirmation['title'] array. This is certainly not the first time I've tried to trace something back through the PHP pages only to come to a dead end.

Thanks,
Tim

[DrByte]

It happens thus:

The language file defines text into a constant.
That constant is loaded by the payment module.
The customer chooses the payment module.
The payment module displays the information on the appropriate page.


To change the text, you would simply look up (developers toolkit or other methods you mentioned) a few words (not usually the entire string) of the text already being displayed. That will show you the various locations where the text is found ... general human brainpower can often help determine which file of a few might be the most appropriate file to edit, usually using the whole string as a narrowing factor ... and then the full text can be reviewed and edited as necessary, thus effecting the change desired.

[senortim]

Thanks, Dr Byte. But I still don't get it. It seems to me like the defines are magical.

I have searched for MODULE_PAYMENT_MONEYORDER_TEXT_DESCRIPTION and confirmation in ALL of the ZenCart files.
MODULE_PAYMENT_MONEYORDER_TEXT_DESCRIPTION occurs in only one file -- the language define. "confirmation" occurs in two files -- meta_tags.php and english.php. Something is clearly wrong with my search tools since I know there is a "$confirmation" in one of the payment modules. I'll have to take that up with Bare Bones Software.

Still, what I'm expecting is that somewhere there is a statement like this:
$confirmation['title'] = MODULE_PAYMENT_MONEYORDER_TEXT_DESCRIPTION;

Or any place that the $confirmation array is initialized.

I don't seem to be able to find that place. Any help is appreciated. In the meantime your "general human brainpower" advice seems the only option. Well, that and the forums.

[DrByte]

I'm not sure why you're referring to DESCRIPTION when you're looking for things related to 'title'.


language file:

  define('MODULE_PAYMENT_MONEYORDER_TEXT_TITLE', 'Check/Money Order');

payment module:

      $this->title = MODULE_PAYMENT_MONEYORDER_TEXT_TITLE;

Then your template calls that data from the payment_modules object in the code, which puts the title into a $confirmation variable as you quoted.