Creating multi-lingual forms with the Multi-Language plug-in

For better or worse, ChronoForms doesn't have JoomFish support built in. Perhaps a future version will. So, for the moment the Multi-Language plugin lets us do almost everything that we need to create multi-lingual forms.

Getting ready

The best way to use this plug-in, as with most of the other plug-ins, is to get your form working just as you want it in a single language, then come back and configure the plug-in.

We will see it working here with a simple newsletter subscription form but the same principals will work with more complex forms.

Note

There are some pitfalls to avoid with this plug-in; we'll point out most of them on the way through the tutorial. If you have problems, then most likely you are translating something that you didn't intend to. Take a careful look at the page source in your browser to see exactly what is happening.

Here's the form that we'll be working with:

And here's the Form HTML that creates it. We'll need...