Override Magento Success Message in Contact Us Form

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In Magento 1.7 the message “Your inquiry was submitted and will be responded to as soon as possible. Thank you for contacting us.” that we get when the default contact us is successfully submitted is used by 

app/code/core/Mage/Contacts/controllers/IndexController.php

The translate (.csv) file used by the module is:

app/locale/en_US/Mage_Contacts.csv

I'm trying to override it in: app/design/frontend/MyTheme/default/locale/en_US/translate.csv

But thus far have been unsuccessful... Do I really need to override the controller action using a custom module just to translate this message? Thanks.

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magentomagento-1.7

1 Answers

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If your system hasn't been core altered, or there's no code pool override, or existing rewrite that changes the message, then this is the line of code that adds that message

Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')
->addSuccess(
    Mage::helper('contacts')->__('Your inquiry was submitted and will be responded to as soon as possible. Thank you for contacting us.')
);

The string 

'Your inquiry was submitted and will be responded to as soon as possible. Thank you for contacting us.'

is passed through the __ translate/localize function, which means that text is alterable through both Magento's CSV and inline translation feature.

This Magento Stack Exchange question about the translation feature may help you debug your current system and explain why the translation isn't work the way you think it should. (since your question didn't mention it, my guess is cache)