How is this different from translation browser?

What are the benefits and drawbacks of each?

Is anyone aware of a plugin that allows a user to pick/change their preferred language rather than just letting elgg detect using the browser settings?

@Tim Stewart: Default Elgg doesn't detect the browser language. the user has to set the language under settings.

You could use Language selector to make it easier for users to switch langauge

Difference between this plugin and translation browser, is that this plugin only saves the changes to the language and saves them in dataroot (so no need the give write rights in the wwwroot).

How can you set who can edit?
in my site I have many people from over the world to help translate, your plugin have a way to set who can edit the translations?

@Kiwi_Chris: as an administrator go to the profile of the user you wish to make a translator and select 'make translator' in the admin actions section (red links)

hi 

i have just created my elgg site,and am thinking of translate it in arabic language,am not a developer nor have experience in programing ,howeveri can do the translation job,but need help on setting up the plugin to make available here in the community, is there any guid lines on how to start translating,is there any particular files to be donloaded ,translated ,and then uplaoded.

oh my site URL  http://www.updateme.info/appl/ 

just get a blank site when i try to launch it :-( 

@idiotter: when do you get the blank page?

- after enabling the plugin

- when visiting one of the pages of translation editor (check url for translation_editor)

- Which version of Elgg are you using

It's working great for me under Elgg 1.7.1. Thank you very much for providing this plugin, keep up the good work.

This plugin helped me solve the dilema of wanting to have people, to which I don't want to give root access to the site files, translating. Also it provides a user interface for translating which reduces mistakes.

I have Elgg 1.7.1 and I see the blank page when I try to launch the translation editor ...  what do you mean with " check url for translation_editor" ?

I reinstalled it ... with the same probelm the URL it launches is http://elgg.idotter.ch/pg/translation_editor/en

I've got the same problem - Elgg 1.7.1 , blank page after installing the plugin and changing the default English language.

@Genera: are you by any chance using the 'following' plugin by Cash? If so, try disabling it and try Translation Editor again.

just disabling the 'izap_videos' plugin can solve the blank page problem.

I need the translation editor to translate 'Izap_videos'

@bradock: then you should ask izap_videos to remove the function from the en.php language file. You can also move this function yourself to (for example) start.php

how i make this! is the first time i work with php :)

i resolved, i make this in //language/en.php

//function video_echo($key) {
  //return elgg_echo('izap_videos:' . $key);
//}
?>

@jerome -Regardin the crash with i-zap video Please have a look here: http://community.elgg.org/mod/groups/topicposts.php?topic=603418&group_guid=340718

@bradock, I see above that you found a second solution. very nice

I have no understanding in php. so I'd lov to read any recommandation :)

@sef: the sugested solution by iZAP (http://community.elgg.org/mod/groups/topicposts.php?topic=603418&group_guid=340718) will completely break the functionality of the Translation Editor. Please don't use it!!!!

The best solutions so far is to move

function video_echo($key) {
  return elgg_echo('izap_videos:' . $key);
}

from /languages/en.php to /start.php

People help me. My tools menu shows me the hash (#) at end o9f url and no drop down menu. Anyone help? Thanks

@Eyotu Kenya: does your problem only exists when the translation_editor plugin is enabled? If so, could you provide a little more information. What Elgg version are you using? What version of translation_editor are you using?

@jerome Thanks alot! it now works smoothly :)

I've commented iZAP's solution in the reffered link - linked it to here and repeated the solution for anyone to review.

Having issues with Elgg 1.7.5

If I translate some word or ask to delete a translation, the plugin says "unable to save data" or "unable to delete translation".

Anyone having this issue? Giving a look in the source code, looks like a problem during saving the metadata.

Can anyone help me?