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Hello dear readers of the blog site. So, we continue the topic of setting up a forum engine called SMF, started in a post about it. There we have not yet made the forum Russian, in terms of translation from the English interface. On this moment it does not look very presentable, but after Russification (if it has not been done yet) and the creation of appropriate sections, its appearance will improve significantly.

Today we will consider the themes and make it Russian, as well as install the JFusion component, which can work with both engines (both Joomla and SMF), which will allow us to have a common user base for two and just one form of their registration and login.

Themes and installation of the Russian language pack

Engine Simple Machines Forum supports the ability to change topics, moreover, they can be changed, both for the entire forum as a whole, and for its individual sections in particular. Personally, I used the default skin, but I made quite a few manual changes to it. In particular, I changed the background, color schemes of some elements, added a clock on the flash, radio and much more, which I will talk about in subsequent posts in this section.

Why didn't I use any of the additional skins when creating the forum? Well, here, probably, it's all about my laziness. No, I was not too lazy to search and download new themes, since there are many places where this can be done. My laziness lies elsewhere.

The fact is that all the variety of mods for this engine, designed to expand its capabilities, is focused on the default theme. Let me explain. If you have a default theme, then adding one or another mod to SMF takes a few seconds and, as a rule, does not require manual editing of the code.

If you install a mod on a design theme different from the default, you will need, as they say, to process all unprocessed parts with a file. In other words, you will have to use FileZilla (download and configure it, you can access the site by FTP and open the files of your forum engine for editing, in which this mod makes changes.

Then look for the right place in the code and perform the necessary actions: either replace the code, or delete, or add a piece of code before or after the fragment is needed. Considering that there may be about a dozen files to be changed, you can imagine how troublesome it will be. In this case, you need to be very careful and not make mistakes, because otherwise the forum may not open at all.

If all of the above problems of using a non-default theme do not scare you, then you can download them from here. The topics are sorted there by sections (minimalism, close to classical, modern, etc.) and for each of them you can see its screenshot at Full Screen... I will tell you how to install these very themes a little later.

If you did not russify the forum at the stage of uploading the engine files to the hosting, as described in the first part of this opus (see the link at the very beginning of the article), then you can do it now. Russian pre-downloaded from this page language pack with the desired one, you need to unpack and then copy the Themes folder to root folder where there is already a directory with the same name.

After copying, you need to go to the forum using the administrator's login and password. Select "Admin" in the top menu, and then click on "Server Settings" in the left column.

In the window that opens, we find the item "Default Forum Language" and select the Russian language from the drop-down list, and then click on the "Save" button at the bottom of the page.

That's it, now your conference is completely in Russian.

Solving problems when installing mods that do not support Russian

Please note that in the future, when adding mods to SMF that do not have a Russian translation, you may sometimes have a problem with displaying mod settings in the admin panel. Actually, these same settings in the admin panel will simply not be visible, tk. there will be no Russification files for them. Therefore, you will have two options for solving this problem.

The first way is to switch to English for the entire forum. How this can be done, you can see a few paragraphs above. Accordingly, after you perform the necessary actions with these settings, you will need to return to Russian again.

The second method is more complicated, but it will allow us to see the settings of the installed mods in the admin panel always, and not only when activated of English language... I dwell on this point in such detail, because the question that someone has installed a mod and cannot find its settings in the admin panel of their conference is very common.

So, the second way is to add translation strings to the Russification files for the newly added mods. How to determine which Russification files need to be changed and where to get them, I will tell you later. For now, temporarily, you can use the first method.

Installing JFusion for Site and Forum Integration

First you will need to download JFusion and its Russification. Entering the Joomla admin panel, we perform standard actions: choose from top menu admin items "Extensions" - "Install / Remove" - "Upload package file" - "Browse" button - find on your computer the file with the component jfusion_package.zip - click on the "Download file & Install>" button.

After that, a window appears, informing that the component has been installed successfully. If problems arise, then you can familiarize yourself with the options for solving some of them at the link given just above.

Now it's the turn for Russification, which is added in the same way as the component itself. Those. we repeat the sequence of actions: "Extensions" - "Install / Remove" - "Download the package file" - the "Browse" button - find the JFusion russification file on your computer - click on the "Download file & Install" button. Now we can go to the settings along the "Components" - "JFusion" path and make sure that the Russification has been successfully added and is working.

Good luck to you! See you soon on the pages of the blog site

Index php topic powered by smf suffered. Automatic detection of the forum engine

Themes and installation of the Russian language pack

Solving problems when installing mods that do not support Russian

Installing JFusion for Site and Forum Integration

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