“COM_CONTENT_created_DATE” does not show translation

Question

I am using the FJRelated plugin. There is a menu item for fjrelated to display a page almost the same as Joomla's default Category List.

I have this line:

<?php echo JHtml::_('grid.sort', 'COM_FJRELATED_'.$date.'_DATE', $dateOrder, $listDirn, $listOrder); ?>

which I change to:

<?php echo JHtml::_('grid.sort', 'COM_CONTENT_'.$date.'_DATE', $dateOrder, $listDirn, $listOrder); ?>

but in the front end I see the string COM_CONTENT_CREATED_DATE instead of the actual translation.

In Joomla's default_articles.php there is the same line:

<?php echo JHtml::_('grid.sort', 'COM_CONTENT_' . $date . '_DATE', 'a.created', $listDirn, $listOrder); ?>

which works perfectly fine in the front end.

I do not remember anything else to be needed in order to use Joomla's language strings in any custom php page. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You need to load com_content language file.

JFactory::getLanguage()->load('com_content');