XOOPS uses variables instead of actual words. It then looks up the word it needs in an ACSII file (actually a .php file).
This way it is possible to tell XOOPS that it should "speak" French, Danish, Japanese or in your case Hebrew, as long as you provide XOOPS with the necessary language files.
Each module has a language directory in which will be directories of as a minimum english and in my case Danish and Japanese. In these directories you place your translated files.
Look these places to get an idea of what I talk about:
XOOPS-ROOT/language/english/This is for the English language-files for the system
XOOPS-ROOT/modules/newbb/language/This is for the English language-files for the newbb (or Forum) module.
A file might look like this:
// $Id: blocks.php,v 1.5 2003/02/12 11:37:27 okazu Exp $
// Blocks
define("_MB_NEWBB_FORUM","Forum");
define("_MB_NEWBB_TOPIC","Topic");
define("_MB_NEWBB_RPLS","Replies");
define("_MB_NEWBB_VIEWS","Views");
define("_MB_NEWBB_LPOST","Last Post");
define("_MB_NEWBB_VSTFRMS"," Visit Forums");
define("_MB_NEWBB_DISPLAY","Display %s posts");
define("_MB_NEWBB_DISPLAYF","Display in full size");
?>
Take the entire English direcory and copy it over, renaming it hebrew or what-ever (notice there is no capital letters in the name).
Now rename
Forum to what-ever it would be in Hebrew.
Do this for all language files used on your site.'
Go to
XOOPS-ROOT/language/hebrew/and find the file [b]global.php[/b} and go to bottom.
//%%%%% LANGUAGE SPECIFIC SETTINGS %%%%%
define('_CHARSET', 'ISO-8859-1');
define('_LANGCODE', 'en');
// change 0 to 1 if this language is a multi-bytes language
define("XOOPS_USE_MULTIBYTES", "0");
?>
Change the settings to what-ever is appropriate (I know nothing of Hebrew).
Finally, go to the XOOPS administration side and select the default language. Hebrew shoul show up if you did the above
.
But! Before you start this work, spend some time to see if others already did translate the XOOPS languagefiles into Hebrew.
But at least you should know the basics and the principle now.
Take a look at
DJVF to see a multilinguel site. Be forwarned, however, that XOOPS does not -yet - support multilinguality (switching between different languages on the run), så a site such as DJVF requires a lot of work and hacking, but it is possible.
Good Luck!
