Need Help in Installing Italian Language URGENT PLZZZ.....

[ammu_omni]

Hi,

 

I have oscommerce websites for past 4-5 years. It has only english language. I need to create a new italian website with italian language.

 

I have all the modules installed in english language in both admin and includes directory. Say for example 15 -17 extra modules other than already given what we have in osCommerce 2.2 Rc2a.

 

I don't know how proceed with installing the new italian site, whether I can copy my whole site and just install italian languages or I need to install all the modules what I have in my older osCommerce websites.

 

The important thing is I need to use the old data because we have huge amount of data and also I have lot of pages designed in my old website.

 

Please help me it is VERY VERY URGENT...

 

 

Thanks in advance..

[♥toyicebear]

If you have a very customized shop then the easiest way is to copy the english.php file and the /english/ folder and then rename them to italian.php and /italian/.

Then you go over all the files and translate all to Italian.

[ammu_omni]

If you have a very customized shop then the easiest way is to copy the english.php file and the /english/ folder and then rename them to italian.php and /italian/.

Then you go over all the files and translate all to Italian.

 

Hi Nick,

 

Thank you for your reply.

 

Sorry I din't get it clearly. Because I'm new to osCommerce but the company has the site for 4-5 years which is developed by some other developer and it is a highly customized osCommerce website.

 

I have a lot of file like extra modules (like you said customized).

 

If I just change those files and directory names to italian how the content in that are gonna change.

 

For example,

 

The text in the english file and english folder are in english, how those things are gonna covert automatically by just changing the file and folder name.

 

Can you please explain ina more clear way.

 

Thanks i advance.

[♥toyicebear]

Baby steps.

 

1. You need to have a complete language set for admin and shop side. You can download a language pack from the add-ons section for this, but if you have alot of custom changes it will be "incomplete".

 

You can use copies of the existing english files/folders instead. (As mentioned before.)

 

Example of changing a text define:

 

English version:

define('HEADER_TITLE_CREATE_ACCOUNT', 'Create an Account');

 

Italian version:

define('HEADER_TITLE_CREATE_ACCOUNT', 'Crea il tuo profilo');

 

2. When you have added in the new files/folders for Italian , you also have to add the language in admin under Localization >> Languages

 

3. Go over all categories / products / product attributes / order statuses and add in italian names/descriptions.

[BertilPalmqvist]

Hi Bala,

 

I have worked on 24 language packs the last months and one of them is italian ( admin and catalog ). You can look at the customer interface at my webshop:

http://shopwebshop.eu/osc_shop/catalog/index.php?language=it

I will soon put some of the 24 language packs there for free download. Swedish and italian will be first. What you get with this language pack is that it works fine with a standard 2.3.3 osCommerce installation. If the installation is highly customised or another version, I agree with Nick that its best to copy the /catalog/includes/languages/english.php to /catalog/includes/languages/italian.php and /catalog/includes/languages/english/ directory to /catalog/includes/languages/italian/ new italian directory and edit every file and translate the english definitions to italian. The same goes for the admin part in /catalog/admin/includes/languages/ where you will have to do the same copying and editing. I think you will have to be skilled to do this editing as a typo error can make some pages blank. Please let me know if you want to try some of my language packs.

 

/Bertil

[BertilPalmqvist]

Hi Bala,

 

Excuse me for the TEXT_MAIN and product descriptions, I have translated using google translate, so excuse language and sentence structure in these texts, they are not part of the language packs. I am only sure in english, swedish and norwegian, the other languages can contain words translated with google translate.

 

/Bertil