Translating string in Drupal

Question

I've developed a site in english (admin & front end) but the site needs to be in a Dutch. Locale and i18n modules have been installed.

Dutch has been added to the list of languages and set as default in admin/settings/language.

I'm now wondering how I can translate strings like the date output? For ex, when I print out a date from a view, it still outputs the days and months in English.

In admin/settings/language/configure I've selected "path prefix only" but I don't get the language code in the url's and links. How is this achieved?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can translate month names, days and much more using Translation interface. Navigate to:

Administer -> Site Building -> Translate interface (admin/build/translate) -> Search (admin/build/translate/search)

and use the search form to locate the string you wish to translate.

Since you've already added Dutch to your site, you can download entire Dutch translation on http://localize.drupal.org. Site is currently in beta, so you will have to login using your Drupal.org credentials.

Use this link to export Dutch translation of Drupal. Just make sure you choose All in one file format so you can easily import it in your site using Translate interface -> Import

To get the language code in the URLs you will have to enable Multilingual support for each content type you need translated (admin/content/types) by opening edit and selecting desired option under Workflow settings -> Multilingual support.

After that make sure that you specify Dutch/English language while adding or editing nodes.