the location of language files - trying to understand logic

**WinterSolstice** · 9 Jul 2020, 11:38 PM

Dear Zencart Team,
During "Le Pandemique de 2020" one of my goals is to understand the inner workings of ZenCart v1.5.7 I feel comfortable with web technologies, so my intention is to figure it out piece by piece.

Looking at the /includes/languages/english folder structure, I can see that the modules folder partially mirrors the /includes/modules folder. However here is what I don't get:
- why do /includes/languages/english/modules folders have a "classic" folder?
- why is there a "classic" folder by itself in /includes/languages/english/ ?
- why is there a "responsive_classic" folder by itself in /includes/languages/english/?
- why no "responsive_classic" folder under the various /includes/languages/english/modules folders?
- however /includes/languages/english/html_includes and /includes/languages/english/extra_definitions do have a "responsive_classic" folder?

Clearly there is some guiding principle here, but I'm failing to see it.
Is this to support modularity? Is there a document I can read? Can someone help?
Thank you all in advance for any reply,
WS

**carlwhat** · 10 Jul 2020, 12:43 AM

https://docs.zen-cart.com/user/first_steps/overrides/

**swguy** · 10 Jul 2020, 07:54 AM

Also https://docs.zen-cart.com/user/templ...ate_overrides/

**mc12345678** · 10 Jul 2020, 09:45 AM

It is interesting to bring up the presence of template override directories in some cases and identifying their absence in other cases...

The why? Either someone didn't think to add them or in removing unnecessary/undesirable code more than just the override code was removed... Being open source software, there's always someone somewhere that does/does not like something that proposes a change and (as it seems) providing that it is not directly insecure code, that it seems to follow the overall desired formatting, and doesn't immediately appear problematic then after some level of further review with possible discussion the change is incorporated... For some the change doesn't matter, for others it introduces an issue leading to further discussion (may seem heated, intense or deep, but don't let that stop you from professionally/politely joining in).