Add a new Language in sugarcrm

You can directly add a new language to SugarCRM without using a Language Pack.

Here are the necessary steps:

1.	Add the new language you are creating to the $languages variable in the config.php file. For instance, to add Spanish, first modify the config.php file in the root of your Sugar installation to reference the new language pack.

$sugar_config[`languages`] = array('en_us'=>'US English','es_es'=>'Espanol’);

 

Note: You can also set the default language in the config.php. This value is used if a user does not specify a language while logging into the application.

2.	Cut and paste each of the en_us.lang.php string files that ship with Sugar Open Source into a new file (<new>.lang.php) with the new prefix you set in the step above.

There are two general locations where you will need to create the new language files:

o	include/language/<new>.lang.php - This file contains the strings common across the entire application. This file must exist for each language defined in config.php.

o	modules/<some_module>/language/<new>.lang.php - These files contain the strings specific to each module.

Note: Some language files that ship with Sugar are not named “en_us.lang.php” but are “.html” or “.tpl” files. These files are used for the inline help system. A complete language pack will include the translated versions of these files as well.

3.

After you create your new files by cutting and pasting the en_us.lang.php files, open each file and translate the strings from English. The strings are defined inside of global arrays and the array syntax does need to be maintained for everything to work. A common problem you will quickly see if the array syntax is off is that the user interface doesn't display at all (just a blank page).

Note: In the include/language/<new>.lang.php file, you will see that there are two global arrays defined. The $app_list_strings array is actually an array of arrays. The key values in this array must not be changed. There are comments and examples in the code that should keep you on track.