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Hi folks

I'm a newbie at this (installed ChronoForms yesterday) and I can barely programme, but I noticed a LOT of people seem to be loosing their cool when it comes to making the Multi Language translation plug-in work, how it works, and whether it can work with JoomFish or not etc. So, I thought I'd write a quick guide, on how to get it working nicely.

STEP 1
I got mine working with JoomFish installed. The translation isn't done by JoomFish, it's done within the Multi Language plugin. In my case, my site only needs to support 2 languages - English and Japanese. In any case, make sure you have JoomFish installed (it'll be your "language switcher") and of course ChronoForms the component. I also have the module and mambot installed, but these aren't essential.

STEP 2
Read the forum post here http://www.chronoengine.com/forums.html?cont=posts&f=9&t=15768&hilit=chronoforms+joomfish. Install GreyHead's SECOND version of the plug-in (he's got 2 there, the second one has a fix if your site only has 2 languages). This version of the plug-in is MUCH better than the one from the official downloads page. It has a "help" section, which did as advertised, and "helped" me a lot.

STEP 3
Follow GreyHead's notes, they should make sense. Talking about the "key phrase", from your form HTML code, (here is what mine looks like):

<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_textbox">
    <label class="cf_label" style="width: 70px;">Name</label>
    <input class="cf_inputbox required" maxlength="50" size="20" title="Name" id="text_0" name="text_0" type="text" />
  
  </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_password">
    <label class="cf_label" style="width: 70px;">Email</label>
    <input class="cf_inputbox required" maxlength="50" size="20" title="Email" id="text_3" name="text_1" type="password" />
    
  </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_password">
    <label class="cf_label" style="width: 70px;">Password</label>
    <input class="cf_inputbox required" maxlength="50" size="20" title="Password" id="text_4" name="text_2" type="password" />
    
  </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_button">
    <input value="Register" name="button_6" type="submit" />
  </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

In my case the "key phrases" were:

"Name"
"Email"
"Password"
"Register"

So therefore, in the translation strings, for the base English text:

Name=Name
Email=Email
Password=Password
Register=Register

Then, for my Japanese translation:

Name=名前
Email=メール
Password=パスワード
Register=登録する

All that's left to do is ACTIVATE the Multi Language plug-in (each form must activate individually), and you are good to go.

Hi Sevenhelmets,

Thanks for this - it's always reassuring when someone else gets this stuff to work OK :-)

The lstest version of the plugin will also work with ChronoForms error messages (the messages you see when imagevalidation or serverside validation fail).

Bob

Trust me, after a few hours of dithering around with it, it was reassuring for me too! 🤣

Thanks for reminding me, now I'll go off and get those translated as well.