2 languages in my website how to?

[rodrigomtl]

Hello,

 

At this moment i have 1 language working fine on my website with WHMCS.

Now because the demand i need to add Second language i was trying to figure this out but is seem very complicated...

 

Any one have pass thrue this, i dont' know where to start?

Do i need to duplicate the folder TEMPLATE?

 

I will appreciate any tips, link or howto page.

 

Regards,

[rodrigomtl]

any one know if It will be possible that on header.tpl do a simple if statements to detect language?

 

Example:

 

if (language == french)

{

Show FRENCH MENU

}

else

{

Show SPANISH MENU

}

[Alistair]

Did you know that WHMCS has a built-in language selector?

[rodrigomtl]

Did you know that WHMCS has a built-in language selector?

 

Could you explain what you mean by language selector?

 

Thank you

[Alistair]

Look at the bottom of the demo here:

 

http://demo.whmcs.com/ - look just below where is says "Powered by WHMCS"

 

You can allow your users to change the language - lucky for you, the WHMCS have already translated it for French and Spanish.

 

Is this what you mean?

[rodrigomtl]

Yes Alistair, i know this but what if i want to customize the metatag description + chat now button and anything else that is on my header.tpl ?

 

 

thank you in advance

[Alistair]

Yes Alistair, i know this but what if i want to customize the metatag description + chat now button and anything else that is on my header.tpl ?

 

 

thank you in advance

 

I see.

 

You could try adding this information to your language file (look in the language folder) - although I am not 100% sure if it will work for everything in the section you want to edit. I might experiment with this myself later, if I get a chance.

[rodrigomtl]

Any one know if is possible to print the $LANG on header.tpl ?

i am asking because this will probably be a solution for my problem.

 

knowing the $LANG i will probably then just do a if statement to put the right content on the page.

 

or is there a way to pass the $LANG variable in the URL?

[WebsiteIntegrations]

you can set the language in the url.

 

see

http://wiki.whmcs.com/Linking_to_WHMCS#Setting_the_Language.2FTemplate_via_the_URL

[gr2]

depends really on what you want to do...

 

example.

 

for my terms and conditions page that is a long sheet of text i would rather use

 

{if $language == English }

text

{elseif $language == Greek }

text

{elseif $language == OtherLang }

{/if}

 

than deal with the language files.

 

this works well with multilingual images too.

 

for simple menu labels i would probably add variables in the lang files.

 

if your issue is adding active page states to menu items, try something to the nature of

 

{if $smarty.server.PHP_SELF|strpos:'index.php'}<div id="mmenu11">{$LANG.mmenu1}

{else}<div id="mmenu1"><a href="index.php">{$LANG.mmenu1}</a>{/if}</div>

[rodrigomtl]

depends really on what you want to do...

 

example.

 

for my terms and conditions page that is a long sheet of text i would rather use

 

{if $language == English }

text

{elseif $language == Greek }

text

{elseif $language == OtherLang }

{/if}

 

 

This work like charm.

You really help me.

 

Thank you

[gr2]

This work like charm.

You really help me.

 

Thank you

 

Cheers, glad I could help.

 

Your very welcome

[Payton Designs]

If you have two separate websites, you can link to the same WHMCS for both, but adding ?language={languagehere} at the end of any WHMCS URL will specify the appropriate language.

[Anders]

depends really on what you want to do...

 

example.

 

for my terms and conditions page that is a long sheet of text i would rather use

 

{if $language == English }

text

{elseif $language == Greek }

text

{elseif $language == OtherLang }

{/if}

 

than deal with the language files.

 

this works well with multilingual images too.

 

for simple menu labels i would probably add variables in the lang files.

 

if your issue is adding active page states to menu items, try something to the nature of

 

{if $smarty.server.PHP_SELF|strpos:'index.php'}<div id="mmenu11">{$LANG.mmenu1}

{else}<div id="mmenu1"><a href="index.php">{$LANG.mmenu1}</a>{/if}</div>

 

 

hi i am intressded about this too but i ma abit novice so could you show some full code how it looks like please?

 

as i want to do my html header in 2 languges.

 

Warm regards Anders

[kjmiami23]

Hi,

 

All I am having a bit of a issue, what is the fastest way to update all the laguage packs like, if i edit something in the english txt file how can i update the others in there own language the quickest way possible please?

 

Thanks

[denully]

depends really on what you want to do...

 

example.

 

for my terms and conditions page that is a long sheet of text i would rather use

 

{if $language == English }

text

{elseif $language == Greek }

text

{elseif $language == OtherLang }

{/if}

 

than deal with the language files.

 

this works well with multilingual images too.

 

for simple menu labels i would probably add variables in the lang files.

 

if your issue is adding active page states to menu items, try something to the nature of

 

{if $smarty.server.PHP_SELF|strpos:'index.php'}<div id="mmenu11">{$LANG.mmenu1}

{else}<div id="mmenu1"><a href="index.php">{$LANG.mmenu1}</a>{/if}</div>

 

also just wanted to thank you that just solved my problem as well