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Dolibarr languages files are developed in French and English by default. | Dolibarr languages files are developed in French and English by default. | ||
There are | There are 4 methods for translating Dolibarr (1 automatic: autotranslator, 3 manual: phpLangEditor, iniTranslation and the completely manual method). They are in order of preference: | ||
=== Translation | === Automatic Translation with autotranslator.php tool === | ||
* OS transltor: All | |||
* Tool: autotranslator.php provided with Dolibarr 2.5.1 and higher in dev/translation directory. | |||
To make or update all files of a language code, just run the script: | |||
autotranslator.php lang_code_source lang_code_target | |||
For example : | |||
autotranslator.php en_US pt_PT to translate into portugues (pt_PT) using english (en_US) files. | |||
All non existing files will be created, all existing files will be update. | |||
The tool use Google translation service to find the translation value of a string. | |||
Your PHP must have permission to write into htdocs/langs directory and must have curl functions availables. | |||
=== Manual Translation with the Firefox plugin phpLangEditor === | |||
* OS translator: All | * OS translator: All | ||
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# Edit the file with a text editor to remove or correct the first comment line. Indeed, with phpLangEditor, it is not possible to translate the lines Discussed (starting with #), the file contains translated once recorded the comment line of the source file. A small manual editing is needed to correct or delete this line, although this does not adversely affect the proper functioning of the new file. Lang. | # Edit the file with a text editor to remove or correct the first comment line. Indeed, with phpLangEditor, it is not possible to translate the lines Discussed (starting with #), the file contains translated once recorded the comment line of the source file. A small manual editing is needed to correct or delete this line, although this does not adversely affect the proper functioning of the new file. Lang. | ||
=== Translation | === Manual Translation with iniTranslator === | ||
* Translator OS: Windows | * Translator OS: Windows | ||