Make my website bilingual

Hello,

Now that my website is well and growing, I'd like to make it bilingual (English/French). Big good project, isn't it?
Has any of you already experimented this?

I've found one or two Joomla tutorials for that, and I'm going to follow them.

However, I certainly will have Flexi questions on the topic.
For instance, this one:
How can I translate the labels of my fields, as well as the Opening text for Field?

Thanks for your help and advice.
HervE

For the Flexi Fields (Label) you can easy write a uniq name (like NAME_LABEL) and then go to
Extensions > Language(s) >Overrides
select the Site language you want, and make a new overrite. for the "Language Constant" you now can use the NAME_LABEL... that works very well (you also should make the override for the admin - then it shows the label nice when you editing the site throu the backend)

for the categories you can use Falang, thats very easy -

or, i'm not 100% sure if it works, but you also should be able to use an override in the flexi templates and also use the joomla translations

use native multilangue (joomla)
flexicontent is compatible

Hello,

bytekulturmaya wrote: For the Flexi Fields (Label) you can easy write a uniq name (like NAME_LABEL) and then go to
Extensions > Language(s) >Overrides
select the Site language you want, and make a new overrite. for the "Language Constant" you now can use the NAME_LABEL... that works very well (you also should make the override for the admin - then it shows the label nice when you editing the site throu the backend)

Thanks. Looks fine.

or, i'm not 100% sure if it works, but you also should be able to use an override in the flexi templates and also use the joomla translations

Code:

<?php $cattitle=$this->escape($this->category->title); echo JText::_($cattitle); ?>

Haven't checked yet with JText and this kind of code, but I'll have to. (For Opening text for instance, it may be the only way.)

Also, what about tags? I can't see a language property in the tags! Do I have to duplicate them in both languages? Or is there a "magical plug-in" to add the language property to the tags?

Good night.
HervE

Hello

Also, what about tags? I can't see a language property in the tags!

we will transition flexicontent TAGs to Joomla tags in near future, currently language properyty is not supported in FLEXIcontent tags

Hello,

Just to inform you of what I did - if anybody's interested.

a) Field > Viewing > Thumbnails > Opening text for Field =
b) Extensions > Language(s) > Overrides
MY_FIELD=Label of my field
INFO_MY_FIELD=Description of my field that I want to appear on my mouse over

c) In a PHP file (index.php of my template for instance):
In the <?php part of the beginning:
And at the end just before the </body> tag:

You can see an example of my result here: japprecie.raidghost.com/en/kaleo-a-b

Good night.
HervE