Multilanguage Guide for VirtueMart (Moved on 6 December 2007)

[senryoku]

Hi all,

I'm using Joomfish to translate a Vmart based store. Everything goes really fine with the bi-lingual
translation, but ONLY the product's details are always shown in the unique language that they're
entered (english)...

So, does anyway know how to have multiple product's descriptions for each language? I know
it is possible because some Vmart stores are doing it, example:

http://www.podfloor.it/joomla/index.php ... 26&lang=en

the italian and english options actually translates the description too!! How can i do it?

Thanks in advance!

[PRoCoN]

to senryoku

I had the same question myself today and eventhough the guide in this thread tells how this is done I had some difficulties in understanding it 100%. Now that I solved the problem, my solution might help you to. There is another guide and the funny thing is that I think its written by the same person but this one I understood: http://virtuemart.net/index.php?option= ... ic=18894.0

HOpe it helps 

[senryoku]

to senryoku

I had the same question myself today and eventhough the guide in this thread tells how this is done I had some difficulties in understanding it 100%. Now that I solved the problem, my solution might help you to. There is another guide and the funny thing is that I think its written by the same person but this one I understood: http://virtuemart.net/index.php?option= ... ic=18894.0

HOpe it helps 

Wow! Thanks for the help! I'll check it out for sure!
BR.

[jacopo3001]

Hi everyone.

First of all i should say sorry for asking something that probabilly has been said already in this topic, but 12 pages are really too many to understand at once!

I just installed for the really first time Joomla+!fish+virtue.
Folloing the installation instruction, i managed to do everything i needed, which was : create a product in english, and then have its translation in chinese.

NOW:
i am gonna have 1000 products, even if I didnt try it yet, i can read there is a CVS uploading tool for catalogue, which will let me manage large number of products easily.
BUT what about their translation ? after i am done uploading 1000 products using CVS, am i supposed to translate each description by hand?
isnt it any way to have the translation in the same CVS?
thanks

[ivo.apostolov]

So far there is no CSV upload option for the translated products

[zgeech]

Hello...I wanted to install virtue mart multilingual modul. and it works everything but I can't see the language selection in the online shop. do i have to activate it some where?
thanks in foreward for answer.
bye bye zgeech

[comeback]

KEEP UP YOUR GOOD WORK

It work first time for me. Your guide saved me hours!
Thx

[zgeech]

what???

[comeback]

Sorry - This thread starts with a guide. Andit just works for me -just wantet to let the author know.

[ivo.apostolov]

Experimental code.

Install the ZIP as a component, during the installation it will give error that one file could not be copied. This error is planned, so don't worry. By installing this component, now you should be able to translate VirtueMart with Joom!Fish.

Report any problems.

[zgeech]

thanks alot,  yuhuu that's good. now it works  i'm very glad

[ivo.apostolov]

Nice to hear

[setisfiction]

Hello Ivo!

Thanks a lot for your reply.
I already made website using Joomla 1.0.11.
Need to solve the problem urgently. For 3 weeks I'm trying to solve problem with search system.
Still no result
My website uses utf8_unicode_ci. And in the website I can search words with only latin letters.
and cannot search words with russian and chinese letters.
I tryed to activate mb_string in php, but no result.
What is the problem.

Joomla 1.5 makes searching very nice in any language, but unfortunately now I can't use this.
Please, any suggestions appreciated.
Best regards, setisfiction

[ivo.apostolov]

I have no idea about the UTF-8 issue

[vedig]

Hi Ivo,

I have installed joomfish at it works very good.

I have some questions:

1) How can I translate the shipping methods? I can not see them in the JOOM!FISH translation menu.
2) When i try to translate the Shop Information, I can not publish it. Is it a well known bug?

Thank for your help

vedig

[pabben]

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /joomla/administrator/components/com_joomfish/contentelements/translationVm_categoryFilter.php on line 54

This is in product category in Joomfish
What happens?

[ivo.apostolov]

Do you have categories in VM?

[pabben]

Yes, 6.

[ivo.apostolov]

So let me just confirm, you have six categories and the problem appears, when you try to translate them.

You can delete the file: translationVm_categoryFilter.php but in this way the category filter will not appear, when viewing products and categories

[pabben]

Yes, appears when the joomfish try to show de categories in administrator mode...

[ivo.apostolov]

Delete the file and it will be OK, it is some error, that I can not reperform.

Are you using PHP 5?

[pabben]

PHP built On:  Linux linhost106.mesa1.secureserver.net 2.4.21-27.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Dec 1 21:59:02 EST 2004 i686
Database Version: 4.0.27-max-log
PHP Version: 4.3.11
Web Server: Apache
WebServer to PHP interface: cgi-fcgi
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.0.10 Stable [ Sundown ] 26 June 2006 00:00 UTC
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-AR; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Relevant PHP Settings:
Safe Mode: OFF
Open basedir: none
Display Errors: ON
Short Open Tags: ON
File Uploads: ON
Magic Quotes: ON
Register Globals: OFF
Output Buffering: OFF
Session save path: /tmp
Session auto start: 0
XML enabled: Yes
Zlib enabled: Yes
Disabled Functions: none
WYSIWYG Editor: No WYSIWYG Edito

[ivo.apostolov]

Weird, I have the same system

[fredostro]

Hi,

I'm working on my future shop, and I've followed your tips to get a multilanguage shop.

The shop is perfect working in french (my admin and site language) et german, but it doesn't work in english...

Can somebody help me on this

Many thanks in advance

Fred

http://www.eoskates.com

[ivo.apostolov]

what the exact problem is?

[fredostro]

the "english" page of my shop point to a blank page

"http://localhost/eoskates/index.php?opt ... 34&lang=en"


Fred

[fredostro]

I think, i've found the problem :

there where no "english.php" file in the folder administrator/components/com_virtuemart/languages

I put the file from original virtuemart package and it works !!

Fred

[ivo.apostolov]

Sometimes the problems are really stupid.

[goodgest]

thanks a lot for this post! Very useful!

[streamike]

Do you know how to translate parametrs in prodfuct type?
I can translate a product type name in JoomFish, but i can't translate parametrs included in this product type.
Plz help