If you want to translate BMForum to your language, welcome to read this article.

In order to translate BMForum, we will show you an example:

We will create a French language pack as an example.

1. Copy dir "lang/eng/" and rename it to the language, e.g. "lang/fr".
2. Using EmEditor modify the files in "lang/fr/" , translate all string to French.
   Notice: Please obey the PHP Syntax, such as $abc = 'We know A's is a boy'; is wrong, correct it to:  $abc = 'We know A\'s is a boy';
   and $abc = "We know "China" is a country"; is wrong, correct it to:  $abc = "We know \"China\" is a country";
3. Please modify the top of "lang/fr/global.php" :

$language_name="English";$lang_accept="en-us;en;en-au;en-bz;en-ca;en-ie;en-jm;en-nz;en-ph;en-za;en-tt;en-gb;en-zw";$html_lang="en-US";$read_alignment="ltr";

(a) You can modify "English" to "Français".
(b) Change the text inside quotation marks of $lang_accept="en-us;en;en-au;en-bz;en-ca;en-ie;en-jm;en-nz;en-ph;en-za;en-tt;en-gb;en-zw"; to French Language Code "fr", more codes can separate with semicolon, e.g. "fr;fr-ca;fr-lu;fr-mc;fr-ch"
(c) Change the text inside quotation marks of $html_lang from "zh-CN" to "fr".
(d) The text "ltr" inside $read_alignment means Reading from left to right sequence, if you're translating an Reading from right to left sequence language pack such as Arabic, you should set it to "rtl".

Then we will create pictures, there are three buttons to translate.

If we want to modify the picture of bsd07 style, goto images/bsd07/eng and copy it to images/bsd07/fr, then translate the text inside the picture.

Now, a language pack developed, goto Admin Center and Refresh Language Packs.

Similar，there are a Setup language packs inside \install\languages . We can copy eng.php to a new file, like "fr.php", using EmEditor to translate.At the top of the file:
$forum_pack_name="eng"; $html_lang="en-US"; $read_alignment="ltr"; $check_version_lang = "enus";
"eng" we can translate to "fr", and html_lang to "fr", and check_version_lang can be "fr". To check version correctly, you should contact with us to translate the files in our site.

If you translated a language pack, but it doesn't work, you can send to us for supporting: msxcms@gmail.com