yappa-ng Regular Documentation

yappa-ng Manual

Special Features of yappa-ng

Scope

What is NOT in the scope of this Manual:

• This is NO comprehensive user manual in the form of a helpfile where I explain how to click onto a thumbnail to go to the Single Image - this should all be more or less self explanatory.
• And this is NO troubleshooting guide because these themes are all in the INSTALL.html and some in the FAQ.html.

• But this IS a manual where you can find explanations for some of the features which are not really selfexplanatory.
• Here you can find interesting details to some features/settings that are not explained anywhere else!
• And here you get hints on how to handle yappa-ng efficiently!

Index

• Random Images for HTML-Homepages
  
  
• NEWS or WELCOME Pages
  • How can I change the default Welcome-Page of yappa-ng?
  • The formatting / color of the welcome page.
  • News pages within the gallery.
  • NEWS / WELCOME pages only for one language (no need for more).
  
  
• Integrated, Album-and Language-specific Links to Reports outside of yappa-ng!
  
  
• Structure your yappa-ng Gallery!
  
  
• Videos, Music and other non-Image Files.
  • The difference between "Images" and "Non Resizeable Files".
  • The Preview, Symbol or Icon of a "Non Resizeable File".
  • How to add an additional or change an existing mime type (file type).
    • Add an Image.
    • Add a "Non Resizeable Filetype".
    • Change the Icon or Thumb for a "Non Resizeable Filetype".
  
  
• Languages, Language Support and Translations.
• The "Language Autodetection"
• The "Intuitive Language Selection".
• The interaction of "Default Language", "Intuitive Language Selection", "Language Autodetection" and disabling Language Support.
• Translating missing parts within an existing Language file.
• Translating yappa-ng into a "NEW" language.
  
  

Random Images for HTML-Homepages

You can display a random image from one of your yappa-ng Albums on your HTML-Homepage to make a link to your yappa-ng Gallery! You need no additional PHP or Perl script - the only thing you need is a correctly installed yappa-ng Gallery! You are not limited to the thumbnail size - you can choose every valid imagesize!
(Valid are all resize sizes you have defined in the yappa-ng setup. If you are not the yappa-ng administrator: valid image-sizes are all the sizes you can select to view a Single Image)

Here are some examples with the HTML-Code you have to insert into the HTML-page (and with explanations!) (This works in every simple HTML-page!):

• A random image from the album "admin_demo" (directory name) with thumbnail size and a link to the image gallery (main page) opening in the same browser-window:
  
  <A HREF="http://www.zirkon.at/yappa-ng_demo/index.php" TARGET="_self"><IMG SRC=" http://www.zirkon.at/yappa-ng_demo/show.php?size=thumbnail&amp;album_name=%2Fadmin_demo&amp;obj_name=show_random" ALT="Random Image"></A>
  
  Explanations:
  • <A HREF="http://www.zirkon.at/yappa-ng_demo/index.php": Within these quotes you give the url to your yappa-ng gallery (the index.php). In this form this will lead you to the yappa-ng welcome screen.
  • TARGET="_self": this "_self" means the yappa-ng Gallery is opening in the same browserwindow. This string is optional.
  • <IMG SRC="http://www.zirkon.at/yappa-ng_demo/show.php?: In these quotes you give the url to the show.php script. (Should be the same path as the index.php !!). (The question mark after the show.php is needed!!)
  • size=thumbnail: In this example the size will be thumbnail. Here you select the size the image will have (see next example!)
  • album_name=%2Fadmin_demo: Here you say that the random image should be taken from the album "admin_demo". To get the name of the album you want just change into the yappa-ng Gallery and move to the album and copy-paste the string which is displayed in your browser window.
  • obj_name=show_random: As object name you give the reserved string "show_random". This will make sure you get a random image every time you refresh your browser. If you give a filename of an image (in the selected album) this image will be displayed static!
  • ALT="Random Image": The ALT-tag is optional. You can put here whatever you want. (It is not possible to get the real image name here at this point!)
  
  
  
• A random image from the album "admin_demo" (directory name) with the size 640 and a link to the admin_demo album itself opening in a new browserwindow:
  
  <A HREF="http://www.zirkon.at/yappa-ng_demo/index.php?album=%2Fadmin_demo" TARGET="_blank"><IMG SRC=" http://www.zirkon.at/yappa-ng_demo/show.php?size=640x640&amp;album_name=%2Fadmin_demo&amp;obj_name=show_random" ALT="My parachute jump in 2002"></A>
  
  Explanations (only the differences to the above example!):
  • <A HREF="http://www.zirkon.at/yappa-ng_demo/index.php?album=%2Fadmin_demo": This time we link to the album directly.
  • TARGET="_blank": with "_blank" the yappa-ng Gallery opens in a new browserwindow. This string is optional.
  • size=640x640: Here you give a valid size which is defined in the setup.php, but double it with an x in between. For a 640 resolution you write 640x640, for a 1024 resolution you give 1024x1024. Only "thumbnail" is one word! You can even give the "Mini-Preview-Size" if you want a really small image - or many of them? :-) . If you (or your yappa-ng Administrator) did not change it in the setup.php this will be 50x50.
  • ALT="My parachute jump in 2002": As in the example above the ALT-tag is optional. This will be the text shown when you move the arrow above the image. You can put here whatever you want. (It is still not possible to get the real image name here at this point!)
  
  
  

You can view an example on the yappa-ng Homepage: example of "Random Image"

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NEWS or WELCOME Pages

The NEWS-, INTRO- or WELCOME-Page (it is all the same!!!) of yappa-ng is the page you can view when you start up yappa-ng. In the default installation you can read "Welcome to yappa-ng Photo Gallery! Congratulation! ...." in your default language (or English). I will call this page "NEWS-page" from here on, because the filename starts with "news_".

How can I change the default Welcome-Page of yappa-ng?

After installation there is a file with the name: "news_xxx.html" in the yappa-ng Main Directory (where the "index.php" is located). This is the NEWS Pages of yappa-ng for your default languages. (If I do not have a news file for your language there will be no newsfile!). The "xxx" is the language (ger=german, eng=english, ned=nederland,...). Each language has its own NEWS-file.

To make your own NEWS-Page all you have to do is make an own HTML-page and name it news_xxx.html (where xxx is the language where it will be seen). For details of the format of this HTML-page please read on in the next section of this manual: "The formatting / color of the welcome page"!

Hint: If you want to be sure every user sees YOUR news file (meaning: you make the newsfile only in one language, but use the "autodetect language" feature for the yappa-ng "text & buttons") you should name it "news_all.html" (see the details)!

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The formatting / color of the welcome page.

Each global "news_xxx.html" is a standard HTML-page where you can put in everything you want and what is possible in other HTML-pages like links, images, banners, own hitcounters for website-statistics,....
It is ok to generate this news file (or fileS if you want to have your news in different languages) with a HTML-editor like FrontPage, Dreamwaver, bluefish,...
But you will have to edit the HTML-file before you upload it into the yappa-ng Main Directory!
You have to delete the complete HTML-header / starting HTML-tags: Beginning with the <!DOCTYPE, <HTML>, <HEAD> inclusive <BODY>!
Do the same at the end of the file </BODY> and </HTML>.
The news-file is integrated into an already existing HTML-table! If you upload the unedited HTML-file the yappa-ng themes formats will be overruled by the formats defined in the news-file for most browsers!
You only have to do this once - the editor should not include it on his own during the next news upgrade of you.

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News pages within the gallery.

You can have NEWS-pages within your Album-tree too if:

• there are no images within this album (only subalbums)
• the album has at least one subalbum (can be more!)

Hint: You can give a "Random Image" (or more) of the subalbum(s) into the NEWS-page :-)!

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NEWS / WELCOME pages only for one language (no need for more).

If you want to maintain the NEWS- /WELCOME-page for your gallery only in one language (if you do not want to make NEWS / WELCOME pages for differnt languages, but you use the "autodetect language" feature for the yappa-ng "text & buttons") take the language-shortcut of "all" (news_all.html).
If a "news_all.html" exists only this one will get presented to the users - there will be no search for news-files in another language anymore! You can be sure it gets presented to everyone.
This works for the global NEWS-page in the yappa-ng Main Source directory as well as for other NEWS pages within photo albums!

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Integrated, Album-and Language-specific Links to Reports outside of yappa-ng!

You get an additional album-link (meaning a link in the line with Top10, Admin-Login,...) if you:

• drop a file with the name "report_xxx.inc.php" into the album where you want the link
• the "xxx" in the file stands for the language. (For example: report_ger.inc.php for german language).
• In this file you can make a link to a page with a report, or whatever album-related you want to show.
• The content of the file: (no blank line before <?php or after ?> and no blanks or tabs before the text within the line !!)
  <?php
  $report = array(
  "report_txt" => "Text you want to display",
  "report_url" => "http://yourDomain/yourUrl/yourHTML-Page",
  );
  ?>
• the file has to be readable for the webserver

• if the file is found,
• there will be a box in the thumbnails page between the "top10" and the "info text"
• above the thumbnails,
• with the "report_txt" displayed
• pointing to "report_url"
• opening a new window (_blank) with the url within.
• If the file is not found:
• nothing will happen! (That's what it does now!) ;-))
• The usage is language-related! You can have it in one language and not in another!
• The report file is covered by the Intuitive Language" feature. If the language of the report (the "xxx" language) is your default language all users will see the report.
• Whether you have a report file or not is shown in the Album Info (=Album Report)

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Structure your yappa-ng Gallery!

It's easy to install yappa-ng and start putting one album after the other into the Photos Main Directory.

But think one moment: After some time the "Left Album-Navigationbar" where you select all the albums will get longer and longer! You will have to scroll really long down to get to the last album in the row.

To avoid this the recommended approach is a structured design from the very start on!
Consider the following example:
yappa-ng shall be the gallery for your party photos, but you want to use it for your family-albums too:

• My Great Parties
• Year 2003
• Gardenparty October 12th
• Birthdayparty John
• Beach Party July 4th
• Nude Party (Passwordprotected)
• Year 2004
• Birthdayparty John
• Family Albums
• Our Home
• My Cat
• Albums of friends
• John
• Charly

• Make the first album in the Photos Main Directory, but put no images into it. If you look into the album it says "no images in this album". (That does not matter, because if you make the next album within this album this text will disappear!). Change into this album, go to album admin and give the album a title ("My great Parties" in the above example). There will be no images in it so you need not fill in the album description - it will not be shown. Only the album title!
• After saving the album title go through the album settings to make sure everything is as you want it (thumbnailpage layout, email, ...), because these settings will get inherited to the next created album.
• Now create the next album within this first. Change again into the new created album and edit the title ("Year 2003" in the above example). You do not need to go through all settings - they are the same as in the album "below".
• Create the next album within this one, change into the album, set the title ("Year 2003" in the above example) and now fill in the album description. Start putting your images into this album.

I think you can go on from here without further explanations! :-)

Of course you can create the directories manually if you have access to the Operating System. But be sure to copy the files "config_album.inc.php" and the file "hits.log" into _every_ directory! yappa-ng will only accept directories where these files are existing! (If you create the albums (=directories) with the Admin-Interface these files get created automatically!). Be sure that the fileaccess and fileowner rights are correct!! :-)

For a more detailed description which files are needed within an album-directory and how to create albums manually go to the setupinfo-photo_root.html

Hint: You can move a complete Album with all the image-hitcounts, settings, Album and Image descriptions from one directory-branche to another with moving the directory. The only thing you will lose (meaning start with zero) is the album-hitcounter.
If you want to make it a "clean move" you should copy the directory to its destination (instead of moving it) and after this delete the old album with the help of the Admin-Interface. By deleting the album with the Album-Admin Delete you will delete all cached images too!

You can see an example of a structured Gallery if you view my "private" Gallery - the "ZIRKON Box Foto Galerie".

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Videos, Music and other non-Image Files.

yappa-ng is a PHP Photo Album - meaning that it will collect and display photos and images.
Starting with release 2.2.1 yappa-ng allows you to upload and share non-image files like videos, audios, pdf, office-files,... too!
In theory this should work with all and any files.
Just be aware of the filesizes (can be really huge with videos!!) and that the Admin Upload is restricted in filesize (see the Setup Tool!).
And be aware that some filetypes cannot be viewed online with some Operating Systems and/or Browsers. Many filetypes need installed programs or installed Browser-Plugins to be viewed online! (Example: You cannot view a Windows Powerpoint Presentation embedded in your browser on a Linux System -> but you can download it!!!)

The difference between "Images" and "Non Resizeable Files".

yappa-ng looks at the file extension (like .jpg or .png or .avi .....) to decide, which filetype (or mime-type) each file is. For yappa-ng there exist only 2 categories of files:

• Permitted filetypes
  
• They are defined in the file config_mimetypes.inc.php (see below)
• and they are permitted within the Setup Tool
• Not permitted filetypes
  
• All other files :-)

yappa-ng checks for the permission of filetypes during the upload process in the "Upload Images" section of the Admin Menu. If its not one of the permitted filetypes it gets rejected.
But even if you FTP or move the file into the album it gets checked during the yappa-ng script run and will not get displayed if its not permitted! If you change the permission in the Setup Tool for a special filetype (enable or disable it) the file will appear/disappear. You can specify the permitted filetypes only globally (and not for each album differently)!

Within the permitted filetypes yappa-ng differentiates again between 2 mime-type (=filetypes) categories:

• Images
  
• They are resizeable
• They are supported from GD and/or ImageMagick
• Through resizing you can make a thumbnail, mini-preview icon,... automatically
• When I'm going into single image view I am viewing the image itself and so the hitcounter gets incremented now.
• "Non Resizeable Files"
  
• I cannot resize the file (with ImageMagick or GD Library) :-)
• I have no image, no thumbnail, no mini-preview icon,... of this special file.
• When I'm going into single image view I can read the image caption, can view details to size,...
  but the hitcounter gets incremented when I load the file itself (view or download)

Images and Photos

In the meantime there are many Photo and Image formats in existance. To be able to resize an image it has to be supported by the GD library or ImageMagick. Both support more and more imagetypes.
All thumbnails, icons and sizes are created automatically from yappa-ng. Thats the purpose of an "Image Gallery"!
In addition you can cache the resized images to get faster access.

"Non Resizeable Files"

yappa-ng support for "Non Resizeable Files" started with video/movie files like avi, mpg or mov in release 2.2.0.
Starting with release 2.2.1 you may collect and display (and share) more or less all known file formats.
The only restrictions are:

• The filetype (mime-type) is defined in the file config_mimetypes.inc.php (see below)
• and after this (!) this filetype gets permitted within the Setup Tool

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The Preview, Symbol or Icon of a "Non Resizeable File".

There are 2 methods to visualize a "Non Resizeable File" within yappa-ng:

• mimetype declaration:
  Within the mimetype declaration (see below) you declare a thumbnail and an icon for each mimetype. The corresponding image should be within the ./yappa-ng/images directory. You can change the preselected thumbs and icons to your own liking - just edit the mimetype declaration and put your own images in the image folder.
  Of course you can use one and the same image for many different mimetypes (as is the case in the distribution)
• A snapshot or real image of the file:
  There is no automatic snapshot/still-image support for videos within yappa-ng.
  If you have a snapshot of a video or an image matching the "Non Resizeable File" (audio, office,...) you can use it!
  Following items have to be followed:
  • It has to have EXACTLY the same name as the corresponding "Non Resizeable File"
  • The file extension has to be: jpg
  • The file has to start with an underscore: "_"
  If you upload this file (or FTP it or move it) into the album it will be treated like a thumb or icon of a "Non Resizeable File", but all resizes like thumbs, icons and even the single image view will get resized automatically!

Example for a Snapshot:
The filename is: iAm-aVideo.avi
The snapshotfile that will be used: _iAm-aVideo.jpg

The one (and only!) drawback of this implementation is the fact, that images starting with an underscore ("_") will not be shown if they are standard images themselfs (without corresponding "Non Resizeable File")!

IMPORTANT: If you delete this image with the "Delete Images" tool of the Admin Interface the corresponding "Non Resizeable File" gets deleted too (automatically)!!
If you delete this image without the "Delete Images" tool of the Admin Interface the "Non Resizeable File" will be kept of course, but the corresponding cached images will not get deleted too!

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How to add an additional or change an existing mime type (file type).

To add a new mime type or change the icon or thumb for an existing mime type you have to edit the file config_mimetypes.inc.php

Add an Image.

If you want to add an image format which is supported by the image-tool you use for yappa-ng (ImageMagick or GD Library) you go to the file config_mimetypes.inc.php.
One example is shown here:

     "jpg" => array( 
              "mime" =>"image/jpeg", "resize" => TRUE, 
              "filetype" => "image", 
              "icon" => "", "iconsize" => "", 
              "thumb" => "", "thumbsize" => ""), 

The first "jpg" is the file extension for the files of this mimetype.
Very important is the part "mime" =>"image/jpeg",, because here you define the mimetype for the browser. If you are not sure which mimetype your new filetype has please search in the internet. You have to know this if you add a new mimetype!!

The next part "resize" => TRUE, tells yappa-ng that it is a "Resizeable Image". If you say TRUE than ImageMagick or GD (whichever you have configured for your setup) will try to resize the image! If its not supported by one of those you will get "broken images" instead of the resized images!

For the "Resizeable Images" you do not need icons and thumbs - they are created directly from the image! :-)

Add a "Non Resizeable Filetype".

If you want to add any other ("Non Resizeable") filetypes take a closer look at this example (in file config_mimetypes.inc.php):

     "mov" => array( 
              "mime" =>"video/quicktime", "resize" => FALSE, 
              "filetype" => "video", 
              "icon" => "images/movie_mini.jpg", "iconsize" => "width='50' height='40'", 
              "thumb" => "images/movie_thumb_mov.jpg", "thumbsize" => "width='100' height='81'"), 

The first "mov" is the file extension for the files of this mimetype.
Very important is the part "mime" =>"video/quicktime",, because here you define the mimetype for the browser. If you are not sure which mimetype your new filetype has please search in the internet. You have to know this if you add a new mimetype!!

The next part "resize" => FALSE, tells yappa-ng that this is a "Non Resizeable Filetype" and that yappa-ng should never try to resize this file with ImageMagick or GD Library! You have to say FALSE here! If you say TRUE than ImageMagick or GD (whichever you have configured for your setup) will try to resize the image and fail! If its not supported by one of those you will get "broken images" instead of the resized images!

Next comes the definition of the icons (mini previews, should be maximum 50 height / width). Take a look at your setup what size you defined for the Mini Preview icons. Pay attention to the quotes-setting (doublequotes/singlequotes) - this is important!

The last one is the definition for the thumbnails. For these goes the same as for the icons. Default maximum width/heigt is 100 (if you did not change this in the setup!)

You have to give the information for icon/thumbs even if you have Symbols or Icons for your "Non Resizeable File".!!

Change the Icon or Thumb for a "Non Resizeable Filetype".

If you want to add any other ("Non Resizeable") filetypes take a closer look at this example (in file config_mimetypes.inc.php):

     "mov" => array( 
              "mime" =>"video/quicktime", "resize" => FALSE, 
              "filetype" => "video", 
              "icon" => "images/movie_mini.jpg", "iconsize" => "width='50' height='40'", 
              "thumb" => "images/movie_thumb_mov.jpg", "thumbsize" => "width='100' height='81'"), 

You can see the "icon" and the "thumb" part. You can change this to any mini preview and thumb as a symbol for this filetype. Just have a look at the sizes. Take a look into the Setup-Tool what sizes you defined for the Mini Preview Icons (default: 50x50) and the thumbnails (default: 100x100) in your setup.
100x100 means that the Maximum pixelwidth is 100 pixel (width OR heigth depending on the orientation landscape or portrait), and the other length is according the original properties! (A landscape 640x480 would be 100x75, a portrait 480x640 would be 75x100). The same applies to the 50x50. :-)

Pay attention to the quotes-setting (doublequotes/singlequotes) and the colons - this is important!

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Languages, Language Support and Translations.

The principle of language support is that you have all texts, which are displayed in yappa-ng, in a separate file for each language - the language-definition-files (=languagefiles).
If you change language yappa-ng just loads the new file and uses all the names (text AND filenames) that are defined in there.
You need at least one languagefile, because if you don't have at least one there will be NO text in yappa-ng!
yappa-ng will try to detect automatically which language the user accepts and if this language is installed it will present the user automatically with this language.
To make sure yappa-ng knows which languagefile it should use on first connect with a user (if you have the "language-autodetect" off or you do not have the language installed which your user wants) you have to define a "default" language.
And if you decide to disable language-support yappa-ng still needs at least one languagefile. Disabling language-support only means, that you will get no longer the option to change the language in the right upper corner. (The language-change-menu will not appear!).

The "Language Autodetection".

As yappa-ng gets translated into more and ever more languages the chances have increased that the user-preferred language is available.
yappa-ng tries to read the information provided from the client-browser of the user about the preferred/accepted language.

If the language is autodetected yappa-ng switches to this language with all text of the program itself and with the user created files like the album description or the image captions or maybe an external report file!
If the language is not available yappa-ng presents the default language.

You can switch this feature on/off in the Setup Tool

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The "Intuitive Language Selection"

With the "autodetect_language" feature enabled the possibility is high that a user from another country with another language than your default homepage language does not see your album title, album description and image captions.

To avoid this dilemma there is the feature "intuitive language selection".
Here is how it works:

• Suppose: You have autodetect enabled and your default language is "English"
• Suppose: Your native language is English (that's why you have default language to "English") :-)
• Suppose: You have all your album-descriptions and all image captions in English
• Suppose: Someone connects with autodetected language "Espanol"

This guy has yappa-ng in Spanish, but will NEVER see your hard work in commenting all images and making a decent album-title and a nice album-description.

With "lang_intuitive" set to "yes" this Spanish guy keeps yappa-ng in Spanish - but gets your English (or other Default-language) album descriptions, image captions,...
If you have a Spanish album title created he gets OF COURSE his (= Spanish ) version!

A really nice feature!

This feature does NOT affect your yappa-ng language selection (be it autodetected, selected or default). The language of the program (yappa-ng) itself (explaining texts, buttons,...) is untouched.
This feature works only with the language related user created/edited files:

• album title and album description
• image captions
• gallery main news file

These are the files where every language has its own (separate) file.
It works only for the DEFAULT-language!

You can switch this feature on/off with the Setup Tool.

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The interaction of "Default Language", "Intuitive Language Selection", "Language Autodetection" and disabling Language Support.

detailed description

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Translating missing parts within an existing Language file.

If you are using yappa-ng and you find some missing translations in your own Language it would be GREAT if you could translate them and send them to me!

If this is possible please here is how to do it:

• If it is not much you may just copy the original text and the changed text (BOTH!!) into a file, save it as ASCII (text only) and send it to me.
  
  
• Or you edit the missing text in the languagefile itself.
  • Search for the existing languagefile in the yappa-ng languages directory.
    The languagefile should begin with "lang_" and then 3 characters for your language, followed by ".inc.php" !!! (e.g. lang_ger.inc.php, lang_eng.inc.php, lang_ita.inc.php, ...)
    
  • Edit the language file.
    (Detailed instructions are in the languagefile itself).
    
  • Translate all the missing stuff on the *right* side (!) (not the left!) in the languagefile.
    
  • Do NOT use a text editor like WinWord, or, if you do - be sure to save as "text only" or similar mode. The files must be in plain ASCII format (text only).
    
  • Be sure the changed languagefile is readable for your web browser after the change.
    
  • Send the changed languagefile (or the changed parts) to me (wizard@zirkon.at) ;-))
    

When you send the file (or the parts) to me please make sure that something with "yappa-ng" is in the subjectline because otherwise its possible that it gets in some of my SPAM-filters! :-(

Please tell me if you did this as a "One-Time Job" and do not want to hear anything from me again or if I may send you the new words/sentences for new releases and you will translate them too. This will be only some view words/sentences for each release! THAT WOULD BE GREAT!

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Translating yappa-ng into a "NEW" language.

If you are using yappa-ng and your own Language is not available you may want to translate everything to your Language.
First you have to deside if you translate the complete language (including the "Admin Section") or only the "Public Part".
Some translators say that in their country English is so widespraid that they do not need to translate the Admin Section. But more and more yappa-ng Sysadmins take the advantage of the "Upload-User" and this Upload user uses the Admin Section too.
If it is possible please translate the complete languagefile!

How to do it:

• Copy an existing languagefile to a new appropriate name.
  A languagefile should begin with "lang_" and then 3 characters for the language, followed by ".inc.php" !!! (e.g. lang_ger.inc.php, lang_eng.inc.php, lang_ita.inc.php, ...)
  $ cp lang_eng.inc.php lang_ita.inc.php
  
• Edit the new language file.
  (Detailed instructions are in the languagefile itself).
  
• Translate all the stuff on the *right* side (!) (not the left!) in the new languagefile.
  
• Edit the file "languages_translated.inc.php" in the languages-directory and add the new language. (Instructions find in the file itself).
  
• Do NOT use a text editor like WinWord, or, if you do - be sure to save as "text only" or similar mode. The files must be in plain ASCII format (text only).
  
• Be sure the new languagefile is in your yappa-ng languages directory and is readable for your web browser.
  
• Send the new languagefile to me (wizard@zirkon.at) ;-))
  

When you send the file to me please make sure that something with "yappa-ng" is in the subjectline because otherwise its possible that it gets in some of my SPAM-filters! :-(

Please tell me if you did this as a "One-Time Job" and do not want to hear anything from me again or if I may send you the new words/sentences for new releases and you will translate them too. This will be only some view words/sentences for each release! THAT WOULD BE GREAT!

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Part of yappa-ng Documentation by Fritz 'wizard' Berger: >> yappa-ng Homepage <<