CB Language projects

Community Builder has its own CB Language plugin framework that supports front-end and back-end translations.
A single CB language plugin handles both ends of the translation.
A complete CB Language plugin will also support (front-end) translations of CB Team released add-ons (the ones shown on this page:
http://www.joomlapolis.com/cb-solutions/add-ons

Creating a CB Language Plugin (updated for CB 1.9)

The following steps should be followed:

  1. Get the latest CB English Language template plugin from here
  2. Unzip it and open its language.xml file with your text editor
  3. Find the 
    <name>en-GB</name>
    line and change it to match your language (e.g., el-GR for Greek).
    WARNING - You should only have 5 characters here (including the dash)
  4. Find the 
    <description>Provides the English language for Community Builder 1.7 core functions.</description>
    line and change it as you wish.
  5. Save the modified language.xml file
  6. Using your text editor edit each one of the admin_language.php, calendar-locals.js, cbteamplugins_language.php and language.php files to prepare your translation. In the admin_language.php and cbteamplugins_language.php files just edit the second part of the line to translate (keep the first part intact). Also in the calendar-locals.js translate the relevant strings in double quotes. Do not rename the actual filenames!
  7. Save these files utf-8 encoded without BOM.
  8. Repackage as a zip and you have your CB 1.8 language package.
    WARNING - If you are on a MACOS environment you need to make sure that your zip file does not contain the _MACOX folder as is may cause problems with plugin installation

A properly prepared language package will install using the CB Plugin Manager in CB 1.8 and will work with your Joomla 1.5.x, 1.6.x, 1.7.x and Joomla 2.5.x language environments.


WARNING: The above instructions do not include filename renaming! The filenames should continue to keep the string 'language' in them!