How to add a new language to Vehicle manager - Joomla car rental dealer software, for rent and sell cars

The Vehicle Manager - Joomla car rental dealer software comes with full language support. This article will describe how Vehicle Manager handles languages and how to add a new language file to the to Joomla car rental dealer software.

Vehicle Manager - Joomla car rental dealer software include: Arabic, Brazilian, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish. language files

1. All Vehicle Manager language variables are stored in one file.
2. That file can be translated to add other languages.
3. Once you have put a language file for a language into Vehicle Manager - Joomla car rental dealer software, then the language chosen as default in Joomla will automatically be picked up by Vehicle Manager.
4. On multilingual sites with JoomFish, Vehicle Manager will automatically pick up the language chosen in the frontend.

The reason we kept the old way for now is because it gives us less headaches maintaining different translation methods for the two Joomla versions. Perhaps we will look at transforming the translations to the new way for a future version. Important thing is: the translations work, and they work fine!

Obtaining or creating language files
Many Language files for the Vehicle Manager - Joomla car rental dealer software can be obtained from the website. But if your language isn't there yet, you can translate Vehicle Manager yourself and add your language. Once you have it, please share it on the website to help others!

If you need add new language:
First, find the file called english.php, either in your installation or in the zip archive of the component. Or download the latest English language file for Vehicle Manager - Joomla car rental dealer software from the Vehicle Manager languages section of the website.

In the Vehicle Manager installation it is located in the directory /components/com_vehiclemanager/lang/.

Next, make a copy of english.php and rename it to your own language, for example dutch.php.

Now open dutch.php with a text editor which is capable of handling UTF-8. We recommend PSPad if you are on a Windows operating system.

Try PSPad instead (http://www.pspad.com/), and set it under [Format] to UTF-8 before you edit and save your files. A partial example of what you will see:

You translate the text portions only, so ONLY the parts between the single quotes.

Example translation for Dutch (NL) would look like this:

Adding your language file to the Vehicle manager installation

You can either do the operations on the component archive and then rezip and install, or edit the necessary files in place inside an existing installation.

1. Place your language file inside the directory
   /components/com_vehiclemanager/lang/ using an FTP client or similar (if you are on a shared hosting account, please use internal Joomla FTP or QuiXplorer or similar to preserve the file ownership).
2. In the file VehicleManager.xml in the directory /administrator/components/com_vehiclemanager/ add the language entry for your language. This goes right after the entry language/english.php.
   So if you use for example Dutch and Spanish on your site you would add those, like this:
   
   lang/english.php
   lang/dutch.php
   lang/spanish.php
3. To ensure the languages you use are visible inside the dropdown boxes in the administration part for selecting, you will need to add the language entries to every language file in use in your installation. In each language file, find the part marked /Languages and add your language there. Example:
   
   //Languages
   DEFINE('_VehicleManager_LANGUAGE_NOT_USED', 'Not specified');
   DEFINE('_VehicleManager_LANGUAGE_ENG', 'English');
   DEFINE('_VehicleManager_LANGUAGE_DUT', 'Dutch');
   DEFINE('_VehicleManager_LANGUAGE_GER', 'German');
   DEFINE('_VehicleManager_LANGUAGE_FRE', 'French');
   DEFINE('_VehicleManager_LANGUAGE_ITA', 'Italian');
   DEFINE('_VehicleManager_LANGUAGE_SPA', 'Spanish');
   etc.
4. Important!!!
   Please take attention to below row:
   
   $LangLocal = array('lang_code'=>'en-GB', 'title'=>'English');
   You need correctly set language code for your language

Save each file. Remember to translate the entries according to the language file you are editing. That's it, you're done!

Sharing your created language files with the community.

Once you have a working translation for Vehicle Manager ready, please share it on the website to help others!

You will receive full credits for your work in the Vehicle Manager Languages Section, as well as a link to your website.

Submitting language files for Vehicle Manager can be done in two ways by registered users:
1. You can upload your language file from User Menu > Upload file
2. Or you can attach the file in a forum post

When submitting your language file, please mention:
1. version of Vehicle Manager the language translation is for your name as you want it mentioned in the credits the website you want mentioned in the credits

Now you may upload already redy translated Languages files to VehicleManager. Now VehicleManager included so languages: Arabic, Bosnian, Brazilian, Danish, Dutch, English (is default), Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish.
For upload you need Download language files for VehicleManager, unzip them and upload to directory: /components/com_vehiclemanager/lang/.
After you need in Components -> Vehicle Manager -> Language Manager press button "Load Languages"

You can update any constant with help of Language Manager (the option is available only for Vehicle Manage PRO).
1. Go to admin area Components -> Vehicle Manager -> Language Manager.
2. In the Search by value constant field enter needed value.

For example you want to change constant "Fuel type"

Constant value before change

Constant value after

View constant value on frontend before

View constant value on frontend after

You can translate any Email with help of Language Manager (the option is available only for Vehicle Manager PRO).
1. Go to admin area Components -> Vehicle Manager -> Settings -> Email Notification.

Thank you in advance for sharing your efforts with the rest of the Vehicle Manager - Joomla car rental dealer software!