Hikashop Swichbar Multi language

Hi,

You can configure the Joomla language switcher module via the Joomla modules manager.

Hi,

1. You asked me how you have a language switcher on your website. So I told you to use Joomla's:
docs.joomla.org/J3.x:Setup_a_Multilingua...te/Language_Switcher

2. Yes, you should use Falang or another third party translation tool.
Here are the instructions:
demo.hikashop.com/index.php/en/hikashop/...ge/with-translations

Hi,

Well. You could. But I really don't recommend it.
You would have to replicate your menu items (one per language), with the categories tree separated per language and the products duplicated per language too so that you would have different menu items based on the language which would lead to different categories/products based on the language so that you would get their name/description in the corresponding language.
That's a tedious way to do translation, even though that's the way Joomla does it.
Third party translation tools like Falang on the other end allows you to only have one set of menu items/categories/products and just translate the texts of these elements.

Hi,

When you use Falang, you don't need to do that. When you use the switcher it will keep you on the same page, but in a different language automatically. Make sure you've configured the Falang language switcher module and not Joomla's. I think that this is necessary for the language switching to work best.
Otherwise, I would recommend to contact Falang's support as it should normally work properly and we're no Falang experts.

Hi,

In that case, you want to duplicate the products, one in each category tree, and create different menu items, one for each category and restrict each menu item to the corresponding language.

Hi,

Well, that's how the system works with one product for each language.
That's why we recommend to use Falang or other third party translation extensions, since they allow for one product for all the languages and thus one stock that is updated automatically regardless of which language is being used.
Synchronizing the quantity between the different products would require the development of a hikashop plugin in order to handle that. I don't see another way if you don't want to use Falang or the likes.

Hi,

Brother products would be quite complex to do as there are many places where the products data is used and would require modification.
For example, if you set limits on the quantity, the system runs a complex MySQL query to check the available quantity for the products in the cart. Handling brother products there would make the query even more complex and potentially not possible (so the whole code would have to be rewritten there). And that's just one example of one small feature.
It would be way simpler to add support for products translations directly in HikaShop.
And I'm actually not against it. It's just that it's not a priority since there are already good alternatives.

Also, Falang costs 45€ in its basic version (without even talking about the free version...) . As you're building a multilingual shop website for your client, you should bill at least several thousands of euros for it. So I don't see how that is a "big" cost.
And Falang is just an example of third party extension you can use to translate your content. We recommend it because we've a specific integration for it and it works really great with HikaShop.
You'll find other extensions that can do that if you search a bit.
For example, neno also allows you to translate HikaShop products extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extensi...tent/neno-translate/ and is free to use.

By the way, I've just thought of something which could help you.
With the new bundle feature of HikaShop, you can add products to others so that these products quantity will be updated when the main product is purchased.
That way, you could have each language variant of a product as a bundle of the other variants and thus their quantity would be synchronized that way.

Hi,

That's right.
Also, since the 4.2.2, you can also add translation keys for the product name and product description of your products and then use translation overrides to translate these keys for each language based on that principle:
www.hikashop.com/download/languages.html#modify
So it's a cheap way to be able to do translation of your content, without the need for Falang (and it avoids all the processing necessary in Falang for that).

Hi,

Note that this capability was only added in the latest version of HikaShop.
So it hasn't been used by many people and there are probably things we missed to handle the translation properly everywhere.
Unlike Falang, which does the translation by dynamically looking at the MySQL queries, we have to go in each place where the product name is displayed and adapt the code to handle the translation override.
So it's a lot more work and a lot more difficult to make sure you didn't forget some places.
So we can probably provide some code modifications (that we can also include on our end) to help you with the areas where the product name is not translated with overrides, but we'll need you to provide precise information on them.
Please provide the URLs of these pages and the necessary instructions to reproduce the issue on your website.
Please also provide the exact texts, because I searched for "has been added to your cart" in our translation files and didn't find any translation with that text so I couldn't find exactly which piece of code is displaying the message you're talking about.