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Max Milbers, 05/21/2011 09:31 PM

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The translation is quite simple. We now use the normal language file system of joomla (http://docs.joomla.org/Creating_a_language_definition_file).





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Just look in the backend and frontend language folders of joomla. The main backend VirtueMart language file "en-GB.com_virtuemart.ini" is located in ...administrator/language/en-GB. Open and translate this file with an Editor (i.e. Notepad++) configured to store the file encoded as UTF-8 without BOM! The VirtueMart frontend language files are located in .../language/en-GB.





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Rename the file(s) to the shortcut of your language, like de-DE or nl-NL and so on.





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Helpful tools for translating language files are:





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com_missingt_0.4-2-ByMaxMilbersValerieIsaksenForj16-5.zip, which can be downloaded frome here:





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(http://dev.virtuemart.net/issues/294)





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(Currently the installer doesn't copy it's own language file. After installing it, you have to unzip this extension and copy its' language file en_GB_com_missingt.ini manually into ...\administrator\language\en-GB in order to make it look nice)





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With this one you can translate directly from the frontend:





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(http://www.allforjoomla.com/xplugins/plg-translatehelper)





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h1. What you have to know and to consider





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Be aware that we use for the standard views in the backend a generic system to generate the titles and messages. So you won't find this translation keys by searching for them and missing_t wont help you.





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But the system is quite easy, when you know how it works. The system is build for the controllers, models, tables, and the title of a view. 





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Lets take the Controller as an exampel. The default call for storing a message is 





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JText::sprintf('COM_VIRTUEMART_STRING_SAVED',$this->mainLangKey);





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$this->mainLangKey is JText::_('COM_VIRTUEMART_CONTROLLER_'.strtoupper($this->_cname));





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So at the end we have something like JText::sprintf('COM_VIRTUEMART_STRING_SAVED','COM_VIRTUEMART_CONTROLLER_PRODUCT');





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COM_VIRTUEMART_STRING_SAVED="%s successfully saved" and 





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COM_VIRTUEMART_CONTROLLER_PRODUCT="Product(s)"





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the %s means that sprintf places the first parameter, translated here "Product(s)" to %s, so we get "Product(s) successfully saved"





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When you have questions, write to Valerie (http://dev.virtuemart.net/users/48).