Translation Management

So you want to create your own Translation. The good news is that it’s easy. Just follow these instructions to get started:

• Go to your web2project installation and locate the locales folder.
• Copy the /path/to/web2project/locales/en folder and it’s contents to, e.g. /path/to/web2project/locales/sr
  • In this example, we’re translating from English - en, to Serbian - sr, so where ever you see sr you should change that to the short code of the language you’re translating to.
  • Specific dialects of a language should be noted. For example, Portuguese is pt while Brazilian Portuguese is pt_br.
• Change recursively the permissions starting from the locales folder.
  • If you’re doing this on a Unix like system this can come in handy:

    • The first one sets the permissions correctly on folders:

      user@machine$ find /path/to/web2project/locales -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;

    • And the second one on files:

      user@machine$ find /path/to/web2project/locales -type f -exec chmod 666 {} \;

  • If you’re on a Windows system, you have to make the directories/files writable to the web user.
• Open up in your favourite editor the /path/to/web2project/locales/sr/lang.php file and edit it according to the instructions in that file. When you’re done, save and close.
• Login to your web2project installation, go to System Admin and then to Translation Management
• On the right side you should see 2 select boxes, the first for the part of the system you’re translating, the second for the language.
• Choose the part of the system you want to translate and the new language you are translating to.
• Translate, hit submit. That’s about it.
• We’d appreciate if you’d contribute your translation to web2project. Simply follow the directions in our README and your contribution will be shared with thousands. Thank you! :)

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