The following tips apply for Joomfish 1.7 stable & joomla 1.0.7. Not tested with other configuration

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TIP 1  - HOW TO LOAD A CSS DEPENDING OF THE LANGUAGE FRONT-END SWITCH ?
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1. Add the following tag in your template index.php file:



This will write CSS files, depending of the selected language: english.css, spanish.css, german.css, italian.css, portuguese.css, etc...

2. If your defaut joomla language is set to english, then leave english.css empty & place it in the /templates/YOUR TEMPLATE NAME/css/ directory. Customize the other css files according to your needs. The most natural use is to change the path to an image file:

#whatever
{
background-image: url("../images/header_german.gif"); for the german.css file
}

#whatever
{
background-image: url("../images/header_spanish.gif"); for the spanish.css file
}

Place the produced CSS files into the /templates/YOUR TEMPLATE NAME/css/ directory

THAT's IT

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TIP 2 - HOW TO LOAD AN IMAGE IN YOUR TEMPLATE DEPENDING OF THE LANGUAGE FRONT-END SWITCH ?
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Use the same  method lo load images placed in the template (please note that images placed in text are correctly managed with joomfish 1.7 stable):



Produce the different images with text, and name them

image1_english.gif
image1_german.gif
image1_spanish.gif
etc...

THAT's IT


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TIP 3 - HOW TO LOAD SITE WIDE TITLE, META KEYWORDS & DESCRIPTION DEPENDING OF THE LANGUAGE FRONT-END SWITCH ?
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This one is a bit more tricky. We will need a core hack

1. Open includes/joomla.php file

Go to line 470 & 471 replace

$this->_head['title'] = $title ? $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'] . ' - '. $title : $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'];

by

// $this->_head['title'] = $title ? $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'] . ' - '. $
//title : $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'];
$this->_head['title'] = $title ? _SITENAME . ' - '. $title : $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'];

2. Open includes/frontend.php file

Go to line 166/167 and replace

$mainframe->appendMetaTag( 'description', $mosConfig_MetaDesc );
$mainframe->appendMetaTag( 'keywords', $mosConfig_MetaKeys );


by

//$mainframe->appendMetaTag( 'description', $mosConfig_MetaDesc );
//$mainframe->appendMetaTag( 'keywords', $mosConfig_MetaKeys );
$mainframe->appendMetaTag( 'description', _METADESC );
$mainframe->appendMetaTag( 'keywords', _METAKEYS );

3. Add the following variables in your different language files (/languages/)

define( '_SITENAME', 'whatever here' );
define( '_METADESC', 'whatever here' );
define( '_METAKEYS', 'whatever here' );


THAT's IT This should work, and not erase dynamic titling & meta keywords&description per page appending

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TIP 4 - HOW TO LOAD A MODULE DEPENDING OF THE LANGUAGE
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MODULE - http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... #msg329684


http://www.designguru.org to load language-specific modules -->

if ($mosConfig_lang== english )
{mosLoadModules ( 'inside_r', -2 );}
?>

if ($mosConfig_lang== french )
{mosLoadModules ( 'inside_rfr', -2 );}
?>




Feel free to add your own tips in the thread below!!!

NEXT PENDING ISSUE FOR ME IS NOW A FULL COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN JOOMFISH & OPEN-SEF

Very well done 55,

just one side note.

In some circumstances the $mosConfig_lang variable isn't directly accessable in the template.

In that case you need to make sure the template script knows it by using a:

global $mosConfig_lang;

prior the first use.

I require a bit of help here, I do not fully understand what it is I need to do exactly...

I need to use the $mosConfig_lang variable, but it I need to call it in a place that is out of reach, or "not directly accessable in the template", I need to call it on VirtueMart template (browse_1.php template), it's simply not returning anything if I do a

Can you help me, Alex? I have a bit of an urgency here 

Regarding TIP 4 - HOW TO LOAD A MODULE DEPENDING OF THE LANGUAGE...

Imagine I wanted 2 "Random Image" modules.  One picking random English images and one picking random Spanish Images, I could use this tip to do this but how can I install 2 random image modules.  Surely they cannot co exist as they will be called the same thing.

Any thoughts?

I'm still not 100% sure where to place those dialogs. They are supossed to be related to the language configuration. But I do not want to blow up this table with those information as I think they do not really belong there.

I don't have a clear idea in mind yet. Suggestions welcome