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Hi. I'm still very new at this...so please bare with me here.

I have made a site for my new translation services. On some sites (not Joomla sites) they have those little country flags that you can click to change the language.

Again, I'm very new at this. Is there an easy way to split the site or to add a flag-option that changes the site. I don't mind having to translate it myself, but I don't know how to do it technically.

Also, I have this main menu with items and was thinking on adding a second seperated menu in the other language. Can't seem to figure that out...

Any tips for lil ol' me?

try Joom!Fish

http://extensions.joomla.org/component/ ... Itemid,35/

I want two languages also.

Is it possible to use different Menu and Content structure for two languages?

If it is, where do I find online documentation on how to work with two languages?

Regards

Hi,

try Joom!Fish with club extensions http://www.joomfish.net/en/the-club

or multilang M17n http://extensions.joomla.org/component/ ... Itemid,35/

Regards, Carolien

Hi.

I have now tried M17n module, as well as Joomfish.

After testing Joomfish for a while I found it to be very awkward to use.

Then I installed M17n, and woohaaa.... so easy to use.

Dear colleages! I am trying to create 3-languages site and later forum with English, Japanese and Russian. Are there any diffiiculties and what can you recommend me to download. It is important from the step of the promotion and registration. To make it easily be recognized in Japan and Russia from the very beginning. Happy New Year and much happiness in 2009! Thank you!

Hey guys i got the solution

This is for language nl_NL but you can do this for languages you want

Goto this link

http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/nederlands/frs/

download

nl-NL_Joomla1.5.8-backend.zip

nl-NL_Joomla1.5.8-frontend.zip

and
dutch language pack from the joom!fish site.

upload all 3 .zip files in your joomla.

now go to administrator of your joomla >> components >> joomfish >> languages

and then activate it and also in joomla >> extensions >> languages.

That will help you...


Happy New Year

Shishir singh

It's posible to switch between two language with different content using jomfish?
What i can use to switch between two language (i try m17n but was working only on pc )?

Thanks

Hi Max,
Yes it is possible switch between two languages with the help of joomfish in admin content, for other content you have to maintain a database for the content in a language required by you.
Regards,
Shishir

Hi ,
I install jomfish but i just want to switch betwen two languages with same or different content or menu.
Can you suggest an addon for jomfish?
How i can put two buttons to switch from articles in two languages?

vila:

I can recommend you to try this M17n extension:

http://extensions.joomla.org/component/ ... Itemid,35/

It is easy to use and easy to install. I use it myself.

Good luck.

M17n it's good only if don't need friendly urls .
I think we can create articles in two language only with jomfish or something like that or if we create subdomains for all languages or we can make some code to chose articles in desire language .

hi, do you have a Chinese version if your website? i can help

My website it's not in Chinese.

oh, i see, but if it has a Chinese version, isn't it great?

i did not like the joomfish,

the best option is to translate the site in different languages and have different folders for the EN version and the other language

But you need to install 2 times joomla .
A combination between jomfish and m17n it's work .

Hi All,

Just a quick post to explain what does M17n do:
It adds multilingual parameters to each menu (backend or admin) and allows the user to select the current language (front-end). Then, only the menu in the selected languages are shown. You can then implement association keys for menu items available in all or some languages (e.g. go from "Company" in english to "Empresa" in spanish or to "Société" in french) or you can also setup DIFFERENT structures (menus and contents are different for each languages).

I hope this helps any of you.

Maxx+ : What problem are you facing with friendly URLs? They are handled since Joomla 1.5.3 using the native SEF plugin from Joomla, as visible here:
http://www.sdic.ch

Best regards,

Jason Johnston
SDIC - Joomla

When I enable M17n and Seo friendly urls it's activate I recevie broken links (in a good case) or a blank page .
Sometimes i don't have the switch buttons on pages even the m17n it's active and i install jomfish to put the switch buttons on the pages.
Now with jomfish and latest version of m17n the switch languages work but i don't know why the buttons don't appear on pages without jomfish installed.

Joomfish is a really best solution

i understand that most of you like joom fish, but noone explains how to use it! the documentation is not well written and it is very hard to figure our the right direction.

did you try M17n its quite good, if you havent tried yet i recommend it to you and i have i quest wat do you think abt Joomfish ?

Use Joom Fish with your design. May be try some other templates which are specially designed for geographical data.

well, I canno understand how JoomFish works, if some one gives me just short description on what to do, maybe I will like the extension as well. For now JoomFish is not good as it is extremely hard to start with

I've just installed M17N and found that most of Google's index urls now broken. I will temporarily unistall this Com and wait and see if some gentlement will fix this error.

we tried using joomfish the other time for one particular website. ucartel.com. It was successful.

sometimes the only solution is to make two seperate copies of joomla with seperate database using subdomain e.g:
http://mysite.com/ --- the default page English ...
http://mysite.com/AR ------ the second language Arabic
this is the ideal way to with different language especially when one of the languages need to change the layout of the template e.g : rtl .. ltr

It is easy to change template depending on language.

What if you only want the menu to change languages? I am also building a bilingual site, although it's already formatted to the translation they want, and since it's bilingual I need to have an option to switch only the navigation from English to Spanish and visa versa.

I was thinking of just putting a button right on the menu saying "English" (in the Spanish menu) and "Español" (in the English menu) so that people could get around. At first I figured I would just make another menu, add a button and call it good, but as far as I know, I don't have the option to link to menus, only articles. If this is in the wrong section, I can re-post elswhere, but if anyone can direct me to an answer that would be wonderful.
Thank you!

The point is that this menu (or module with links) would have to load a page for which you have assigned different menu modules in the language desired, all thereafter displayed menus linking to contents using the same language (+ another menu/module linking to the former language).

Without using a component like Joomfish, you would not be able to load a content equivalent to the one already displayed before switching, but to an arbitrary one as the frontpage for example.