How to translate into another language

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The following guide will explain how to translate the CMS into your own language if it is not on the list of supported languages.

Step 1: Duplicate folder

The default language of the CMS is English, so you will have to make a copy of the folder of that language and translate the files inside it. The folder can be found in the following path application/languages.

Then you need to rename the copied folder with the new language name, this should match the names of the languages supported by CodeIgniter 3, for more information you can see the following list:

List of supported language names

arabic
armenian
azerbaijani
basque
bengali
bosnian
bulgarian
catalan
croatian
czech
danish
dutch
english
filipino
finnish
french
german
greek
gujarati
hindi
hungarian
indonesian
italian
japanese
khmer
korean
latvian
lithuanian
marathi
norwegian
persian
polish
portuguese
portuguese-brazilian
romanian
russian
serbian
simplified-chinese
slovak
slovenian
spanish
swedish
tamil
thai
traditional-chinese
turkish
ukrainian
urdu
vietnamese

Step 2: Edit language file

In order for the CMS to detect the new language, you will have to edit the file language.php inside of the new folder.

<?php
defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');

return [
    'locale' => 'en',
    'name'   => 'English'
];

You should change the parameters with those of the new language.

Parameter	Description
locale	Language code (ISO 639)
name	Language name

Step 3: Translate other sections

To translate the other sections of the CMS such as the admin, user, or a custom module. you must go to the path application/modules/<module>/languages in which you should do the same as Step 1.