Override System not working the way I expected

Is it possible this article - Understanding the Override System - is outdated for this version?

I have a need to override certain values defined in english.php and meta_tags.php. Following the above stated article, I can not get it to work, even if I explicitly follow that example of 'Categories' to another value.

I have successfully set-up a custom template. Is it a different method or process when working with a custom template?

Cheers!

The override system is the custom template system. If you are having difficulties making it work, tell us the exact steps you took, and perhaps show us the website. The template system has not changed significantly in years.

If you look at the article mentioned and my post, I tried using the steps outlined under Language Files and did not see the expected result of Categories changed to Types (something I chose subjectively just to test the steps). I tried both on a site I am developing and one that is a generic, out of the box install of Zen-Cart. I can't share url's for either of these sites for they are only on my localhost development machine.

gjh42:

The override system is the custom template system. If you are having difficulties making it work, tell us the exact steps you took, and perhaps show us the website. The template system has not changed significantly in years.

You said that you've set up your custom template; is it possible that you've misspelled the name of the directory /includes/languages/english/custom when you created it? That's happened to me before ...

What's the name of your custom template?
Is it activated in your admin? Admin->Tools->Template Select
What is the foldername in which you stored it on your server?
Did you put your custom language content into a language subfolder of the same name?

ie: Template folder: /includes/templates/fred/
Language override folders: /includes/languages/fred/english.php and /includes/languages/english/fred/xxxxxxxx.php

Thanks for the input. You indirectly answered on of my questions: Does the new sub-directory have to match the name of a custom template? I have includes/languages/english/template_msv/ and ```
includes/templates/template_msv/

includes/languages/english/template_msv/
|-english.php
|-meta-tags.php

> **lat9:**
>
> You said that you've set up your custom template; is it possible that you've misspelled the name of the directory /includes/languages/english/**custom** when you created it?  That's happened to me before ...

dwlamb:

Thanks for the input. You indirectly answered on of my questions: Does the new sub-directory have to match the name of a custom template? I have includes/languages/english/template_msv/ and ```
includes/templates/template_msv/

> 
> ```
includes/languages/english/template_msv/
                                    |-english.php
                                    |-meta-tags.php

You made a small mistake, the english.php needs to be one level down

includes/languages/english/
                  /template_msv/
                            |-english.php

I tried using the steps outlined under Language Files and did not see the expected result
Changes within meta_tags.php are working all right. But changes within english.ph are not. This is the structure of includes/languages/english/template_msv/```
includes/languages/english/template_msv/
|-english.php
|-meta-tags.php

Design75:

You made a small mistake, the english.php needs to be one level down

includes/languages/english/
/template_msv/
|-english.php

Thanks for the input but I don't see a difference.  The end result interpretation of my attempt to represent the tree structure is no different from yours.
Within includes/languages/english/ is template_msv/ containing english.php and meta_tags.php

The mistake I made was not expressing it in a more universally respected format like yours.  The attached png will show the file tree structure  

changes to meta_tags.php are working but not english.php

1. The english.php override happens one level up. See my previous post.

2. What EXACTLY are you trying to override in english.php anyway? Maybe there's no need to touch that file if another method might work better. Need to know details in order to help though.

This other recent post may explain it better for you: http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?205855-Using-CUSTOM-language-file-but-defaulting-some-from-ORIGINAL-language-file&p=1185381#post1185381

Thanks for the help and patience. I finally got it all working.

DrByte:

1. The english.php override happens one level up. See my previous post.

2. What EXACTLY are you trying to override in english.php anyway? Maybe there's no need to touch that file if another method might work better. Need to know details in order to help though.