We are getting closer to the final release of Joomfish 2.0 but felt we should release a Beta2 instead of going to a Release Candidate - the reason for this is that we have made some significant changes since the first beta was released. - these relate largely to performance and we think you'll like what you see.

There are other articles on the site relating to maximising performance and configuration of Joomfish 2.0. 

New Features

There are a number of new features in Joomfish 2.0 - this is not an exhaustive list but should give you a flavour.

•  Joomfish 2.0 has been written so that it can translate both Joomla 1.5 native and legacy components.
• A new plugin architecture. This allows for custom handling of missing translations and the creation of specialised modules such as locale aware menus etc.
• Translation of content that include <form> tags. This has caused problems in the past - since the translation page contains a form within a form which many web browsers, quite naturally, have problems with.
• There are now 2 system plugins.
  • "Joomfish - Basic Router" - this handles the language switching so should always be the first plugin in the list of system plugins.  Other 3rd party SEF plugins are likely to perform this function in the future in which case you would disable this plugin.
  • "Joomfish - Abstraction Layer" - this handles the database connections and takes delivers the requests for translation.  This plugin should always be the first plugin after the "Joomfish - Basic Router".
• SEF based language switching can be based on language specific subdomain or by adding a customisable language. This is configured using the "Joomfish - Basic Router".
• And special features just for subscribers / supports ... read on

Subscriber/Supporter Only Features

You will have noticed that we are formalising the relationship between the project's financial supporters  and the level of support they receive and the availability of some added extras.  Read more here.

Joomfish 2.0 will feature some added extras that will only be available for download by full project supporters.  At present these include: 

1. Translatable URLs when using the Joomla core SEF router.

Urls will translate from  

http://www.mydomain.com/en/more-about-joomla/29-the-cms/45-an-article

to

http://www.mydomain.com/cy/mwy-am-jwmla/29-y-srhc/45-erthygl-cymraeg

or from

http://en.mydomain.com/more-about-joomla/29-the-cms/45-an-article

to

http://cy.mydomain.com/mwy-am-jwmla/29-y-srhc/45-erthygl-cymraeg

Read more here. 

2. Locale Aware Menus

Ever wanted certain menu items only to appear in some languages and not in others - now you will have full control over this, with an easy to use, neat admin interface.

Read more here.

3. Hide Untranslated Content Items

Do you want not show untranslated content items not to appear.  Now you have control over this using a special Joomfish plugin.

4. Alternative Language Content

Do you want to show your visitors alternative versions of content items that are not translated?  This can nowbe done with a convenient ajax type interface.

Important changes

Content Element files follow a strict naming convention i.e. {tablename}.xml e.g. content.xml so if you are testing or developing 3rd party component remember you may need to rename your content element files