multi language edition in J2.5

There is actually an alpha version of Joomfish for joomla 2.5 so we should be able to have a multilingual solution for 2.5 soon.

Otherwise you can use the native multilingual system of joomla 2.5 but it's really not practical.
You would need to have one category tree per language and duplicates of each products in each category tree and then create several times your menus and modules restricting them to only one language of joomla and associated to the corresponding categories. That way, when you change the language, different menus/modules will be used and display the corresponding categories and products.

The multi lingual support of Joomla doesn't change much for us. As it is done, it is as useful as what was in Joomla 1.5. Which means that we would have to handle all the multilingual processing on our end. Joomfish wasn't just about proposing modules and articles in several languages for Joomla 1.5 but it was a real way for extensions to easily support it with a small integration.
It was also the de facto standard on 1.5.
I agree that having that directly into HikaShop will be a good idea for the future. It's on the todo list.

Hi,

We worked on the compatibility with Falang on our end and it is working great.
It will be available for next release of HikaShop in February.
If you need it before, please use our contact form to request a pre version (along with your HikaShop Business/Essential order number if you use one of our commercial versions) and we will provide you an install package which will work with falang.

Why can't you use both ?
Falang installed for HikaShop's multilanguage and then use the joomla mutlilanguage for the rest.

HikaShop's multi language will indeed only work with joomfish and falang.

Hi manuxx,

The multilanguage system of Joomla is not something you can really "integrate with" but for which you can build your own multilanguage system. Basically, you have to have your own translation layer (and thus change a lot of things if your component doesn't already handle that from the start).
Joomfish-like systems have the translation layer on their end. So for a developer, integrating with it is really easy. Plus, when we started to work on HikaShop Joomfish was the reference for translations. It was making perfect sense to integrate with it at that time.

Now that HikaShop has been release supporting Joomfish for more than 1 year, continue on that path is easy for us which means that we can give a solution to that rapidly to you.
Supporting multilanguage directly in HikaShop would mean literally months of development. We prefer to spend that time on new features that are requested from a long time instead. We feel that it's a win-win for everyone.

As mbeley said, Falang on 2.5 with the preversion of HikaShop (it will be in next release of HikaShop) and Joomfish on 1.5 with the current version of HikaShop works great.
Sure, you have to have Joomfish/Falang on your website. but I don't see why that would be a problem.

The integration is the same with Falang. You can have the language tabs for content directly in HikaShop.
For that, you need to activate the corresponding option in the Languages tab of the configuration of HikaShop.

Yes, most users don't use multilanguage but others do. We didn't get any negative feedback from them so far be it with Joomfish or Falang.
HikaShop can handle big websites too. We have users with more than 100 000 products catalogue using HikaShop.