I have a dual language site using Joomfish. I wanted to translate the fields that are kept in the back end. I presume it will work for any of these fields that are stored in the backend / database.

In my case for example I wanted to translate “Position Type”

In order to do this I created an XML file (jgbobs_pos_type.xml) in: \administrator\components\com_joomfish\contentelements

The code inside the xml file is as follows:

Save it as: jbjobs_pos_type.xml

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<joomfish type="contentelement">
<name>JoomBah Jobs Position Type</name>
<author>JoomBah Team</author>
<version>1.0</version>
<description>Definition for JoomBah Jobs description</description>
<copyright>JoomBah.com(C) 2010 - 2011, All rights reserved.</copyright>
<reference type="content">
<table name="jbjobs_pos_type">
<field type="referenceid" name="id" translate="0">ID</field>
<field type="titletext" name="pos_type"  length="50" maxlength="100" translate="1">Position Type</field>
</table>
</reference>
</joomfish>

All you have to be concerned with from the above example is:

1. The table name you are trying to translate:
<table name=”[b]jbjobs_pos_type[/b]“>

2. The field name in the table you want to translate <field type=”titletext” [b]name=”pos_type”[/b]  length=”50″ maxlength=”100″ translate=”1″>Position Type</field>

Save / upload the file as I mentioned above.

Now. If you go to Joomfish > Translate > And choose the drop down on the right “Content Elements” you will see “JoomBah Jobs Position Type”.

Select it and make the translation and you are done.

Don’t make the mistake which I made and go to front end and think the text would have changed…You have to go to the job and edit it in your language. You will see that the field options have changed.

You can do this for all the variations

The Joombah team might have a better solution, but this worked for me.

Hope this helps.

If you want to add that to the images you can add it in: modules\mod_jflanguageselection\tmpl\namesplusimages.php

around line 121 add width and height as below.

$outString .='<img src="' .JURI::base(true). $langImg. '" alt="' .$language->name. '" title="' .$language->name. '" border="0" width="20" height="14" />'

Open modules/mod_mainmenu/helper.php and change:

Code:
$tmp->url = JURI::base();

to:
Code:
$tmp->url = str_replace(array($tmp->route.'/', $tmp->route), '', JRoute::_( $tmp->url ));

I fixed this by editing the sh404 sef urls:

Go to Components > SH404SEF > URL manager > New:

New SEF URL: en
non-SEF Url: index.php?lang=en

Save.

It should work now.

PS. If you don’t know what the non-SEF Url is, then disable sh404sef and set the joomla seo setting in the joomla control panel to No.

SEO Settings

Search Engine Friendly URLs	No Yes
Use Apache mod_rewrite	No Yes
Add suffix to URLs	No Yes

Go to front end and click on the homepage and click on the language links to go to another language and then back t english. You will see the url in the address bar.