I'm not trying to say that you are stupid, nor am I trying to say that you do not know what you are doing. What I am trying to tell you is that what you are wanting to do is not going to be possible with vShare in its current design. Maybe you need an example to understand what I am trying to tell you.

You want to translate the word pending. So, you use your software to search all of the files for the word "Pending" to "Geewillickers." With an open source script, this would work just fine. You would be able to search all of the references for the word and if you change every single reference, everything would work fine and use the word "Geewillickers." So, if there are 6 SQL files, 12 DB files, and 50 PHP files and you change the code in all 68 of them, you good to go.

However, here is your problem with vShare. You want to change the reference of the word "Pending" to "Geewillickers." So, you use your software to search all of the files to replace what you want. vShare is composed of over 100 different files (between templates, images, and php scripts). 60% of vShare's files are encrypted and cannot be edited. Thus, when you change the reference of the word "Pending" using your software, you are only changing it in the 40% of the files that are not encrypted. Thus, you are only going to end up with a script in which 60% of the files are using one term and 40% are using another. And, if one of the encrypted files is doing the writing and the encrypted file is doing the reading, if you change the code in the one that is not encrypted, you will break the functionality.

Here is another real example for you. You talked about the word "Confirmed" earlier. You stated above that if you knew WHERE the word was, your "professional" software could change it, encoded or not. Well, what if I told you that you can find the word "Confirmed" in the file friend_accept.php in the main folder of your script. Now, open up that file. What do you notice? You have about 3-4 lines of readable text talking about Zend Guard. Then, you have a bunch of lines that look like garbage. Do you know that the "garbage" that you see in that file is actually the code for that file? Did you also know that the code for that file has a SQL statement in it that is writing the word "Confirmed" in plain English? But, here is the problem, there is nothing you can do to change it! Why? Because the code is encrypted. This is the point I'm trying to get across to you. This is why I stated that you should learn a little bit about PHP. I'm not asking you become a programmer. I'm not even asking you to learn anything more than just how PHP statements should look. If you knew at least this, then you would also know that PHP is NOT a binary language. It is a "pre-processor" language (similar to HTML, Perl, JavaScript, etc). This means that PHP code is written using normal language and is executed as normal language and not as compiled binary files (an example of a post-processor language would be C#. After writing a file in C#, the only way to get it to run is to compile the code which turns it into a binary file that is no longer editable. You can then distribute the file [as a .exe] to people for them to use). So, if you are seeing PHP code which is binary (such as vShare), then that means that the code itself has been compiled (or encrypted) using another piece of software (in our case, Zend Guard). Because of this, if there is anything that needs to be changed within the compiled code, unfortunately, it cannot be done from a user point of view. And this is where we are with you. You are needing to change all English language printable (and writable) text. Unfortunately, part of the text that you need to change exists in code that is encrypted and not changeable. [b]This is why you are having such a difficult time finding what you are needing![b] It's not that your software isn't good or that you are incompetent. It's all due to the fact that you are struggling to find language to change in a piece of software that is mostly encrypted and not editable.

Check your PM, I'm going to send you something.