Translations

BlooKing is translatable to any language for both site and administrator.

You can find already available translations provided by other users here.

If a translation is not listed you can easily create your own translation.

Example

Download from your site the following files:

BlooKing front-end translation: /siteroot/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_blooking.ini

BlooKing back-end translation: /siteroot/administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_blooking.ini

In order not to overwrite the two files save them into different folders since they have the same name but different content

Open these files with an editor such as notepad++.

You will find several variables which you will need to translate in your language.

Example: 

COM_BOOKIT_SEARCH_AVAILABILITY="Search Availability"

Must be changed as below for a Slovak translation

COM_BOOKIT_SEARCH_AVAILABILITY="Hľadať dostupnosť"

After finishing with all the variables you have to save the files as follows:

BlooKing front-end translation: Save en-GB.com_bookit.ini as [language code]-[country code].com_bookit.ini

BlooKing back-end translation: Save en-GB.com_bookit.ini as [language code]-[country code].com_bookit.ini

Replace [language code] and [country code] as needed:

Example

Greek: el-GR.com_blooking.ini

French: fr-FR.com_blooking.ini

Language tags can be found here: [1] (use the ISO 639-1 column) and here: [2]

It is recommended to use the corresponding HTML code for UTF-8 characters (accents, etc). If you choose not to use HTML codes for your UTF-8 characters, please make sure that you save the file with UTF-8 no BOM encoding.

Upload your translations on your server:

BlooKing front-end translation: /siteroot/language/xx-XX/xx-XX.com_blooking.ini

BlooKing back-end translation: /siteroot/administrator/language/xx-XX/xx-XX.com_blooking.ini

Remember to install the language pack of any translation you wish to provide. If, for example, you wish to install the Spanish translation for BlooKing you will have to install Joomla Spanish language packs ( front-end and back-end ) first.

How to install a Joomla language pack:

1. Download the language packs from here
2. Go to Extensions > Install/Uninstall
3. Browse the previous downloaded files and click "Upload File and Install".

As background reading checkout these resources:

http://docs.joomla.org/How_to_create_a_language_pack

http://docs.joomla.org/Making_a_Language_Pack_for_Joomla_1.6