Need help making a translation extension for flarum

sakibarifin

While searching online, I found https://discuss.flarum.org/d/1662-extension-developer-first-read
and https://docs.flarum.org/extend/
Are these resources up to date? If not, where can I find the latest resources?
I am using beta 13 on my test forum. If I make an extension for beta 13, will it work on beta 14?
I want to make a translation extension for my native language. Do I need strong programming skills for that?

askvortsov

Hi, welcome to Flarum! A few things:

It might be worth checking if there's already a language pack for your language you could contribute to
language packs are a lot simpler than most extensions. After setting up boiler plate, there's 2 essential bits:
- a bunch of yml files that contain translations
- a config file for dayjs that allows date translations. This one is a bit more complex
I would highly recommend starting by looking at the structure of some existing language pack extensions. https://discuss.flarum.org/d/20807-simplify-translation-process-with-weblate might also be of use.
We switched from momentjs to dayjs between beta 13 and beta 14. So, if you update, you'll have to rewrite the dates configuration a bit (although that shouldn't be too difficult, again you'll want to just follow existing examples)

Best of luck! Let us know if you run into issues, and again, welcome to Flarum!

sakibarifin

askvortsov There is one but it was made a long time ago. Probably before beta 8 and it lacks a lot of content. Here's the repo I forked: https://github.com/sakibarifin/flarum-ext-bengali

clarkwinkelmann

The official Flarum documentation at https://docs.flarum.org/ is always up to date, but this means for the latest Flarum version, so currently beta 15 and not beta 13.