(SOLVED) Translation Problems

[aa1joe]

When I click on the different flags at the top right of the website it doesn't translate the website properly.

Example I see the template logo and not the proper logo.

If I click the french flag, the text is not translated to french.

Under the top features the thumbnails are there but there is not description.

What do I have to do to fix this.

If this cannot be fix how do I remove the other two flags from the website.

Thanks.

[rocky]

You must edit must sure you have provided translations for those languages on the Tools > Translations tab and on the product editor page. If you don't want your website in multiple languages, you can go to the Modules tab and uninstall the "Language block" in the "Blocks" section.

[aa1joe]

Rocky what you are saying is that the website does not translate automatically?

So I mean to translate in french we have to insert french text?

[rocky]

That's right. PrestaShop comes with translations by default, but if you use third-party modules or modify any of the text in your TPL files, they will not be translated automatically. You must manually translate them. PrestaShop v1.4 has the option to automatically translate using Google Translate.

[aa1joe]

So is this version is using a third party module?

I dint modify any text in the tpl either.

So I guess then I just remove the translation flags.
I don't think the client will go into spending more money to translate text.

[rocky]

If you haven't modified any of your TPL files, then your theme and PrestaShop modules should already be translated into French and Spanish. Most third-party modules don't provide translations, so they will be missing translations. I don't provide translations with my modules, since I don't know French or Spanish.

[aa1joe]

I'm English and French and I do see the links are in French but the home page text is not translated to French and the description text for the items does not come across at all, not even the English version. Weird!

Ok Thanks Rocky, I'll suggest to the client that she just goes English.

Joe

[rocky]

That's right. Content you enter into the editorial module isn't automatically translated. You must manually translate it too.

That's weird that the product descriptions aren't coming across even if in English. I'm not sure what would cause that.

[aa1joe]

yeah, weird and I don't know enough about prestashop to even try to figure that out.

I just sent the client and email. It would be a big expense to manually do the translation so I don't think she will do that.

Thanks again.


Joe

[aa1joe]

Rocky I just uninstalled the language block and that also removed the other icons.

You know the rss, twitter, facebook icon.

Is there a way to keep those in place and just remove the translation flags.

Thanks

[rocky]

That's weird. The language block doesn't include facebook or twitter icons, only flags. Was the module modified in the theme you are using?

[aa1joe]

All I did is go to module and clicked on uninstalled > Language block v0.1

I never modified it in the theme.

[rocky]

It make it more difficult to help since you are using a highly customised theme, so I can't assume things work the same way as in the default PrestaShop theme. It looks like the theme creator has modified the language block to include those extra icons. You need to modify themes/Candy-Art3/modules/blocklanguages/blocklanguages.tpl and change lines 24-30 from:

{foreach from=$languages key=k item=language name="languages"}

               {if $language.iso_code != $lang_iso}<a href="{$link->getLanguageLink($language.id_lang, $language.name)}" class="tooltipheader">{$language.name}{/if}
                   <img src="{$img_dir}{$language.id_lang}.jpg" />
               {if $language.iso_code != $lang_iso}{/if}

       {/foreach}

to:

{*{foreach from=$languages key=k item=language name="languages"}

               {if $language.iso_code != $lang_iso}<a href="{$link->getLanguageLink($language.id_lang, $language.name)}" class="tooltipheader">{$language.name}{/if}
                   <img src="{$img_dir}{$language.id_lang}.jpg" />
               {if $language.iso_code != $lang_iso}{/if}

       {/foreach}*}

[aa1joe]

Got it. That just removed the translation flags

Thanks again Rocky, much appreciated.

Joe