How to safely edit English text?

I'm looking for a way to change text strings for the default English language, without having my changes overwritten if/when upgrading my OC installation to a later version. Anyone have any ideas about the best way to do this? I can't seem to find anything about it around the forums.

Thanks in advance

It's very smart thinking ahead like that. Give vQmod a try. It's the de facto method for making modifications to OpenCart portable. Many, many developers use it so you'll be able to find support on the forum should you have any trouble using it.

Thanks for the reply, Ryan. I had thought of this, but didn't want to reinvent the wheel in case there was already a 'standard' way of doing this. Seems like vQmod is being used for pretty much everything these days.

In any case, I managed to write a quick vQmod to allow me to override language variables. Works a treat

Hopefully OC devs will implement this kind of functionality in the future. Until then, vQmod will have to do.