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Batch1211
 Post subject: Main Menu Translation
PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:00 pm 
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Hi everyone,

the Multi-Language support in Joomla 1.5 is really great.
However, I am wondering how I could translate the main menu, without using an extension like JoomFish.

Is there a way of including the menu items to the en-GB.mod_mainmenu.ini language file?

Thanks for your replies.

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lemings
PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:30 pm 
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Maybe I have not got correct, but You can translate sample_data.sql where records for all menu items are located. So I do not se reason of including them anywhere else.

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Batch1211
PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:26 pm 
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Hi Lemmings,

what I'm trying to do is, that a user logs in to the site, and the menu items appear in the laguage specified in his profile.
When writing a component, I can call the translations for text by calling the JText::_ method.
Code:
JText::_('TEXT');


Somehow I can't see a way to do that with menu items.
Is there a Joomla-Way of translating menu-items, like there is to translate text in components?

Best wishes,
Alex
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lemings
PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:00 pm 
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Sorry, I can not help You in this case, I never had a need for that.

I believe this hack You propose will break up translation packages, ok it is possible to define some very common menu item names, but what if You have one not defined?

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infograf768
PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:13 pm 
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Menu items titles are not language strings. They are database entries. The JText code is not applicable in this case.
Only Joomfish can do that by saving a said-language menu item title separately in the db.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:20 pm 
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M17n is a simplier solution than Joom!Fish.

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