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 for CB 2.0¶

The following steps should be followed:

1. Get the latest CB English Language template plugin from here
2. Unzip it and then rename its en-GB.xml file to your language locale code (e.g., el-GR.xml for Greek)
3. Edit your new locale.xml (e.g., el-GR.xml) file with your text editor
4. 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)
5. Find the

   <description>....</description>

   line and change it as you wish.
6. Find the

   <filename plugin="en-GB">language.php</filename>

   line and change it to match your language (e.g., el-GR for Greek).
7. Save the modified language.xml file
8. Using your text editor edit each one of the admin_language.php and language.php files to prepare your translation. In the admin_language.php and language.php files just edit the second part of the line to translate (keep the first part intact). Do not rename the actual filenames!
9. Follow the same process for all files in the cbplugin folder.
10. Save these files utf-8 encoded without BOM.
11. Repackage as a zip and you have your CB 2.0 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 2.0+ and will work with your Joomla 2.5+ and Joomla 3.3+ language environments.

Creating a CB Language Plugin 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!