Multilangual not working after removing Falang

-- HikaShop version -- : 4.3.0
-- Joomla version -- : 3.9.18
-- PHP version -- : 7.3
-- Browser(s) name and version -- : Chrome

Hi,

We have a webshop where we only use Falang as translation component for the shop. As Hikashop now has multilingual build in I remove Falang. The translations are still there in the backend, but the article information doesn't switch on the frontend. All the other elements like buttons are translated when I switch the language, but the content is still only in the default language.

On the site I have Falang re-installed and the translations start working again. This is not ideal as Falang is now overhead.

I hope you have a fix.
I added some screenshots to show the translation fields front and back.

hi,

If you used Falang when you added the translations, they are stored in the falang_content table of your database.
And when the page displays, the Falang driver system plugin will convert the translations on the fly.
If you disable or uninstall Falang, the translations are still in the falang_content table so HikaShop translation edition interface can still display them to you in the backend. But since the convertion of the text is done by Falang on the frontend, if you disable Falang, then it won't work.
If you want to use HikaShop's new capability of translation overrides without Falang, it's possible. To do that, you need to uninstall Falang, and then rename the table falang_content in your phpmyadmin.
Note however that you'll have to redo your translations via the translation interface so that they can be saved as translation overrides.
There is no mechanism to migrate translations from falang_content to the translation overrides.

Hello Nicolas,
can you provide a tutorial link on how to activate HikaShop's new capability of translation?
Best regards
Makis

Hi,

If you never had Falang on your website, you can just activate the "Activate the edition of content in multiple languages" setting under the Languages tab of the Hikashop configuration after you've added the different languages as content languages in your Joomla languages manager.
If you did had Falang before on your website, then what I wrote above also applies:
www.hikashop.com/forum/install-update/89...g-falang.html#318807
And thus you'll also have to rename the falang_content table in the database.