How to write my component for joomla with another language ?

Question

I writed a component for joomla I want use more than once language.Ex english & Itatly But i don't know how to do it. Use component joomfish but only effect with component exsist on this joomla version, not effect with my component ? How to config my component ?

Answer 1

You don't need Jomfish, Joomla has this capability inside.

You need to use JText and language files.

Step 1: Instead of echo 'Hello' use echo JText::_('COM_EXAMPLE_HELLO')

Step 2: Create a file language/en-GB/en-GB.com_example.ini

Step 3: In the ini file, enter COM_EXAMPLE_HELLO=Hello

Step 4: In the installer XML, don't forget the language ini file: http://docs.joomla.org/Components:xml_installfile