Working with language files

You can easily create individual text phrases for each theme.

Directory structure

All text phrases are placed into the TextPhrases folder of a theme. There a separate directory is created for each language, as you can see below:

• german
• english

In these language directories .php files containing the text phrases are created. We can look at how the folder structure for text phrases is structured below:

Darkness
 └─ TextPhrases
     ├─ english
     │   └─ darkness.lang.inc.php
     └─ german
         └─ darkness.lang.inc.php

Text phrase file anatomy

A text phrase file always has the extension lang.inc.php and contains a two-dimensional PHP array called $t_language_text_section_content_array. The content of the array is always structured according to the following scheme: Identifier => Phrase.

This can be illustrated using the following example for a German text phrase file:

$t_language_text_section_content_array = [
    'title' => 'Darkness',
    'description' => 'Das dunkle Theme mit starken Kontrasten'
];

For our Darkness theme we create the files darkness.lang.inc.php in the folders german and english, within a TextPhrases folder for the languages German and English. We take the above example as file content and translate it for the English text phrases file:

$t_language_text_section_content_array = [
    'title' => 'Darkness',
    'description' => 'The dark theme with strong contrasts'
];

Now we should have the exact same folder structure as in the example shown above.