Contents · Installation_of_language_pack_in_osCommerce_234_en.pdf by Bertil Palmqvist shopwebshop.eu Start an FTP-program e.g. Filezilla. Navigate to the directory where you unpacked

Installation_of_language_pack_in_osCommerce_234_en.pdf by Bertil Palmqvist shopwebshop.eu

ContentsInstallation of language pack in osCommerce 2.3.4.............................................................................1

Standard Installation........................................................................................................................1Special Cases.................................................................................................................................11

Changed the name of the admin directory................................................................................11If osCommerce 2.3.4 is installed without the catalog directory................................................11

Installation of language pack in osCommerce 2.3.4

Standard Installation

Prerequisites: You must have a properly installed osCommerce 2.3.4 webshop at a web hosting company, such as one.com. You have not renamed the folder admin. You have a local computer withinternet connection and a web browser and an FTP - programs, such as Filezilla. Note: The images in this guide are from when I installed the Swedish language pack, but other languages are installed in a similar way.

Commands and programs in this document are issued from a local linux system, but if you use a windows system locally you can find similar commands and programs to use.Create a new directory on your local computer with the same name as the language you are about toinstall e.g. “swedish”.Download the language pack zip file to that directory.Unpack the zip-file. You will now see a directory “catalog”, a pdf file and the zip file itself.

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Start an FTP-program e.g. Filezilla.Navigate to the directory where you unpacked the language pack, “swedish” in the left pane of Filezilla.You see the directory “catalog” there.Connect to your online store with FTP login information given to you by your hosting provider.You should now see the “catalog” directory in the right pane in Filezilla, if not see Special cases below.

Now drag and drop the catalog directory from the left side to the right side, being sure not to drop it in a directory but on an empty place or a file listing in the right pane.( Drag and drop: You point with the mouse-pointer to the “catalog” directory and click and hold down with the left mouse button while moving it to the right pane as mentioned above, and release the left mouse button where you want to drop it. )Done with the file transfer!

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Start a web browser and log in to your web shop as admin, and go to Localization -> Languages. Click on the button + New Language.

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Now, insert the parameters for the new language: see list below, and select as default if you want to have this language as default. The sort order is the order in which the languages are displayed on the screen, use the order you want.

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For some common languages, the parameters are:

Language Name Code Image Directory Sort Orderarabic arabic ar icon.gif arabic 4bulgarian bulgarian bg icon.gif bulgarian 10czech czech cs icon.gif czech 12chinese chinese zh icon.gif chinese 13croatian croatian hr icon.gif croatian 14danish danish da icon.gif danish 15dutch dutch nl icon.gif dutch 18english english en icon.gif english 19estonian estonian et icon.gif estonian 21finnish finnish fi icon.gif finnish 24french french fr icon.gif french 25german german de icon.gif german 28greek greek el icon.gif greek 29hindi hindi hi icon.gif hindi 31hungarian hungarian hu icon.gif magyar 32italian italiano it icon.gif italiano 36japanese japanese jp icon.gif japanese 37latvian latvian lv icon.gif latvian 42lithuanian lithuanian lt icon.gif lithuanian 44norwegian norwegian no icon.gif norwegian 49polish polish pl icon.gif polish 51portugues portugues pt icon.gif portugues 52romanian romanian ro icon.gif romana 53russian russian ru icon.gif russian 54slovak slovak sk icon.gif slovak 57slovenian slovenian sl icon.gif slovensko 58spanish espanol es icon.gif espanol 60swedish swedish sv icon.gif swedish 61thai thai th icon.gif thai 66turkish turkish tr icon.gif turkish 70

Then you click Save.

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Now if you browse to your web shop as a customer, you will see the new language in the bottom of the right column represented by the clickable flag, to switch to the new language.

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Click on the new flag, and you should see all the box headers in the new language and some texts. The products descriptions you have to translate to the new language and edit in admin -> Catalog -> Categories/Products for every product.It can be a good idea to install all the languages you want in your shop before you add your products

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In the administration interface in the first page, or after click on Administration on the top left side, you can now select the newly installed language at the top right.

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These language packs contain the whole path from catalog directory and downwards, so just copy the “catalog” directory to the root of your web shop, and all language related files and directories will be placed in their right places. This reduces the risk of error during installation. If you download and install language packs from http://addons.oscommerce.com/category/Languagesyou must often copy directories and files to their correct locations in the same way as above, as if you had changed the directory name of admin.

List of the worlds most common languages in english numbered alphabetic order

1 Afrikaans 2 Albanian 3 Amharic 4 Arabic 5 Armenian 6 Basque 7 Bengali 8 Byelorussian 9 Burmese 10 Bulgarian 11 Catalan 12 Czech 13 Chinese 14 Croatian 15 Danish 16 Dari 17 Dzongkha 18 Dutch 19 English 20 Esperanto 21 Estonian 22 Faroese 23 Farsi (Persian) 24 Finnish 25 French 26 Gaelic 27 Galician 28 German 29 Greek 30 Hebrew 31 Hindi 32 Hungarian 33 Icelandic 34 Indonesian

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http://addons.oscommerce.com/category/Languages


35 Inuktitut (Eskimo) 36 Italian 37 Japanese 38 Khmer 39 Korean 40 Kurdish 41 Laotian 42 Latvian 43 Lappish 44 Lithuanian 45 Macedonian 46 Malay 47 Maltese 48 Nepali 49 Norwegian50 Pashto 51 Polish 52 Portuguese 53 Romanian 54 Russian 55 Scots 56 Serbian 57 Slovak 58 Slovenian 59 Somali 60 Spanish 61 Swedish 62 Swahili 63 Tagalog-Filipino 64 Tajik 65 Tamil 66 Thai 67 Tibetan 68 Tigrinya 69 Tongan 70 Turkish 71 Turkmen 72 Ucrainian 73 Urdu 74 Uzbek 75 Vietnamese 76 Welsh

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Now you can remove the default language is English if you want.Login as admin. Navigate to Location → Language. Mark english and press the Delete button. Confirm by pressing the Delete again.

Now you can also add new currency such as Swedish kronor and set it as default and remove the default currencies EUR and USD.Login as admin. Navigate to Location → Currencies. Click the "+ New Currency" and select SEK in the pulldown menu "- Top currencies -", then all the parameters of the currency Swedish kronor will be automatically filled in. Check the box Set as Default ... and press the save button. Mark U.S.Dollar and press the Delete button. Confirm by pressing the Delete again. Highlight Euro and deletethat currency the same as you cleared the US Dollar.

Special Cases

Changed the name of the admin directory

If you changed the name of the admin directory, you have to copy files and directories, as follows:

the file catalog/includes/languages/swedish.phpthe directory catalog/includes/languages/swedishtocatalog/includes/languages

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the file catalog/admin/includes/languages/swedish.phpthe directory catalog/admin/includes/languages/swedishtocatalog/<your new admin directory name>/includes/languages

If you have some add-ons installed you have to check manually that definitions belonging to those add-ons are added after this installation to the new language files you installed here, so that the add-on will work in the new language as well.

If osCommerce 2.3.4 is installed without the catalog directory

You can if you will, install osCommerce, without the initial catalog directory, if you want the index file index.php to reside directly under your website root. It may be the case if you only have this osCommerce web shop on your website. In other cases, for example, if you have a previous webpage where you want to add an osCommerce online store with a link then the standard installation with the directory catalog will fit better.If you installed the osCommerce 234 directly to your webroot, without the initial catalog directory,

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ie, if you copied everything under catalog from the left side of Filezilla to / on the right side. Then you click into the catalog directory on the left side of the language pack and copy the directories admin and includes to / on the right side.Drag and drop folders admin and includes from left to right, and make sure not to drop them in a directory but to a blank spot or a file list in the right pane.(Drag and Drop: You point your mouse at the "admin" directory and click and hold the left mouse button while you move it to the right pane, as mentioned above, and release the left mouse button where you want to drop it.) Do the same with the includes subdirectory .Now file transfer complete!

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Contents · Installation_of_language_pack_in_osCommerce_234_en.pdf by Bertil Palmqvist shopwebshop.eu Start an FTP-program e.g. Filezilla. Navigate to the directory where you unpacked