Help please! Language problem.

Can someone explain me this...

I created a new language in the language settings, a copy of the English language file and called it fr. So the file lang-fr.php was created. I opened it and spent hours translating the whole file to French. I changed the default language to French and even erased the lang-eng.php file. But every single time I compile the file language, English is back on my site. Then I must upload the lang-fr.php once more and not compile to get my site back to French.

Where does my site get that English from I compile?

How to have French once and for all on my site? Have I lost hours translating the file???

I am discouraged. Anyone can answer this question? How to get rifd of the English that is I don't know where since I had erased the file!

TY....

Hi, i also have the same problem when modifying my site. Whenever you edit blocks or Language strings from Admin, it overwrite your previous lang-en.php with new one. In fact editing in notepad is easy, but if i changed 99% in notepad and one single change from Admin - language string, hours of hard work was lost.

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I edit, modify and save a copy via ftp, and do not edit from Admin -- Builder -- Field Builder or Language Strings. You can edit almost every menu, msg, commends error statement directly in lang-en.php from notepad. But do not forget to take a immediate backup of lang-en.php via ftp.

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Have a look. www.oshoebooks.com

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I am also waiting if you get any answer here.

When you made new from admin it made  anew entry in the DB `LocalizationLanguages`

The site read the file in languages yes, but as soon as you hit compile it gets and makes a new file from the DB. In the DB all you have is English keys and strings.

I know you worked hard on this but you should have edited the LocalizationStrings` from an import.

If you email kitevox at expertzz he has the best French out there. He even gives you files that translate the admin panel and other parts to French. Just make sure you always see a n online demo and make sure you backup everything before you begin.

If you want to do it from the admin yourself, just keep your file for ctrl-c ctrl-v to copy and paste 3000 times. lol

then make the new language, in search for strings type links, you should now have 2 boxes to insert your french translation and save.

Dang it.  You beat me here on this one, I was about to ask them why they're editing the DB via FTP & Notepad. 

I run 4 languages on my sites, you need to create a table for each in the DB and all the keys that go with it.  Strongly suggest Notepad++ at least while your writing it.  This will get you started:

INSERT INTO `LocalizationLanguages` VALUES(2, 'de', 'de', 'German');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationLanguages` VALUES(3, 'es', 'es', 'Espana');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationLanguages` VALUES(4, 'fr', 'fr', 'French');

Note, that english is already ...VALUES(1, 'en', 'en', 'English');  so we don't need to create that as it exists with the base dolphin install.

Next, after you've inserted the base of each language in, you'll need to have this in addition:

INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('1', '2', '');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('2', '2', 'Copyright © {0} domain.de');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('3', '2', 'Möchtest du Nachrichten zu <br> News und Tipps erhalten?');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('4', '2', '<p><b>Hallo <YourRealName></b>,</p><p>Du hast eine Nachricht von <a href="<Domain?>profile.php?ID=<ID>"><NickName>(<Domain>profile.php?ID=<ID>)</a>!</p><p>Um diese Nachricht lesen zu können, musst du deine E-Mail prüfen!!!</p><p>---</p>Respekt an,  <SiteName>');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('5', '2', 'Gästebuch');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('32', '2', 'Heute noch Anmelden!');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('33', '2', 'Plaudere mit anderen Mitgliedern oder chatte mit ihnen.');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('34', '2', 'Hier bekommst du einfach alles Audio, Video, Mp3, LiveCam, IM Messenger, Radio');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('35', '2', 'Finde Singles die auf Dich warten!!!!');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('57', '2', 'AOL');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('58', '2', 'IM nicht erlaubt');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('59', '2', 'IM ist nicht verfügbar');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('60', '2', 'AOL');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('61', '2', 'ein Mann');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('62', '2', 'eine Frau');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('63', '2', 'ein Mann oder eine Frau');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('64', '2', 'F');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('65', '2', 'M');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('66', '2', 'P');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('67', '2', 'über mich');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('70', '2', 'Impressum');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('71', '2', 'über Dich');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('72', '2', 'Account aktivieren');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('73', '2', 'Aktive Geschichte');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES ('74', '2', 'Kommentar hinzufügen');

Notice, by the '2' that this is all German, for those who don't speak it, this would go on for the three languages being added for about 8300 lines or so and that is just a base install of this language, if you have new/unique keys since the base install it will take even more.

This is an example of the next section:

INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` (`IDKey`, `IDLanguage`, `String`) VALUES (1, 4, '2002-{0}. Product of <a class="bottom_text" href="http://www.boonex.com/">BoonEx Group</a>.'),
(2, 4, 'Copyright'),
(3, 4, 'Tenez moi informe des News'),
(4, 4, '<p><b>Bonjour <YourRealName></b>,</p><p>Vous avez recu un message de <a href="<Domain>profile.php?ID=<ID>"><NickName>(<Domain>profile.php?ID=<ID>)</a>!</p><p>Pour recevoir ce message, consulter votre boite Email</p><p>---</p>Cordialement,  <SiteName>'),
(5, 4, 'Livre d''or'),
(32, 4, 'S''inscrire!'),
(33, 4, 'Tchattez immediatement avec d''autres membres !'),
(34, 4, 'Voix, video, Messagerie instantanee, et jusqu''a 5 photos !'),
(35, 4, 'Annonce personnelle et flirt libre'),
(57, 4, 'AOL'),
(58, 4, 'IM maintenant (non permis)'),
(59, 4, 'IM n''est pas valide'),
(60, 4, 'AOL'),
(61, 4, 'un homme'),
(62, 4, 'une femme'),
(63, 4, 'une femme ou un homme'),
(64, 4, 'F'),
(65, 4, 'H'),
(66, 4, 'C'),
(67, 4, 'A propos de moi'),
(70, 4, 'A propos de nous'),
(71, 4, 'A propos de vous'),
(72, 4, 'Compte active'),
(73, 4, 'Recit Activee'),
(74, 4, 'Ajouter un commentaire'),
(75, 4, 'Ajouter a votre panier'),
(76, 4, 'Ajouter un nouveau profil'),
(77, 4, 'Ajouter un recit'),
(78, 4, 'Ajouter un nouvel objet'),
(79, 4, 'ajouter un recit'),
(80, 4, 'Ajouter a votre Top liste'),
(81, 4, 'Accepter l''invitation'),
(82, 4, 'Ajouter un membre...'),
(83, 4, 'Plus d''info sur ce contact...'),
(84, 4, 'Admin'),
(85, 4, 'Recherche avancee'),
(86, 4, 'Affiliation'),
(87, 4, 'Age de'),
(88, 4, 'age de'),
(89, 4, 'tout'),
(90, 4, 'Tout'),
(91, 4, 'Montant'),
(92, 4, 'Invite'),
(94, 4, 'Avril'),
(95, 4, 'Articles'),
(96, 4, 'ascendant'),
(97, 4, 'Attention'),

I hope your getting the point on this now.  Best to go see kitevox, his is going to be a much quicker and far more economical solution than this one is.

Oh...thank you guys. I did not know it was so complicated and that I'd have to go into the db to change this...

Guess I'll ask kitevox for his file..

I do not understand tho what is the lang-xxxx.php file for now...

Oh another question about this...

I added several fields. When I will put the translate file in the database, will it erase all the new strings I have made? Now I am worrying....

TY!

Thanks mrpowless and mydatery for the details.

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Lol Mrpowless... i already 'ctrl-c' n 'ctrl-v' more than 100 times.