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Well, having read the reviews, documentation, and installed this thing, I have been quite disappointed. Result - uninstalled. The way the documentation is distributed and structured makes it impossible to discover how to add languages to the default install. Searching the forums results in error messages suggesting the search terms are not adequate.Conclusion - I have been found inadequate by this developer - with no obvious way to resolve.

Not for the faint hearted, or anyone who can't spend more that 48 hours troubleshooting.

Not for me - Sorry.

it could be better, a little bit hard to set up for first time. But this is my top favorite joomla extension. Its the only of this kind, and it works!

I just can say Excellent! Excellent! Excellent!

Thanks to the authors.

This is one of the greatest joomla extensions around.

I have been using it with Joomla 1.0.x for 2 years, and have now finished migrating it to 1.5.x. My site is translated into 10 different languages.

It was a rocky ride with the early beta and release candidate releases, especially because I also use the JoomSEF component, but it now works smoothly.

The guys at joomfish were very supportive, and all the incompatibilities have been ironed out. The combination with JoomSEF works well.

It is a great component for multilingual sites, but if you don't have a translation for a page, google will penalize you with duplicate content.
The alternative they give you, is a plugin for Joomfish that costs 60 euros. You should be aware of that.

I install it, mess up an entire site. Tryed to uninstall it and I woke up with no access to admin. Had this error:
Warning: require_once(/components/com_joomfish/helpers/defines.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in administrator/modules/mod_translate/mod_translate.php on line 15

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'components/com_joomfish/helpers/defines.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in administrator/modules/mod_translate/mod_translate.php on line 15

the solution to this, without using a hopefully created backup, is to manually delete one more folder: administrator/modules/mod_translate. At least it worked for me. GL :)

I needed a website with multiple languages. The reviews where good so I went ahead and installed it.

I've been using it for a couple of weeks and it's been perfect. It's easy to use and has all you need to get a website in multiple languages.

Thank you so much for this. One of the best extensions I've used.

Sorry guys, I used to love the Joomfish when it was under 1.0 I had it on one of my sites and it is running just great!!!! Now I have another one in Joomla 1.5 and tried Joomfish thinking of premiere translation component. FORGET IT. Spent 45 min restoring my web site back to the origin stage when it was before I installed it. If you have SH404SEF installed as the SEF translation of URLs and now you want JOOMFISH, forget it. These two great components hate each other, there is no way you can bring back the web site unless you de-install it. I de-installed my favorite SH404SEF first thinking I would at least have bi-lingual site without SEF. Forget it, there is another issue which authors admit under Joomla 1.5. "It has become apparent that the Joomla caching system, which is based on files stored in the "/cache" directory, is not an ideal solution for Joomfish translation caching. It is too slow and can lead to large numbers of files being created which then cause the system to slow down as it works out which ones need deleting." No way you can figure out the patch yourself if you are a rookie like me. So after 1 hour of restoring my website I am finally left with plain web site and thinking to re-install the SH404SEF at least and think how to translate the web site... I guess English as default will do for now...
Best regards,
Alexander H.
Slovakia
PS don't take it as criticism, the component has still great potential and most of all is free, so I admire you for that, but please work with SH404SEF guys and program something working. Many thanks!

This was a great application before the team decided to found a kind of club to provide paying users with updates and let all the others wait about half a year longer for these. 'Simple users' have to wait very long for updates, more than a year longer than the 2.0 update was announced.

You can do that, but don't call it 'non-commercial' any more. What else could be a commercial product?

I was impressed with the reviews this has received. SO i thought i will give it a try.

I installed the component / module what ever it is...all ok...But my frontend of the website stopped working. So i decided to uninstall then my frontend website came back BUT my backend(admin) is now unaccessible.

In my opinion this is not as good as I thought. So I am now having to trouble getting my joomla reinstalled.

I am not going to install this ever again and use an alternative solution.

Great Component! Great Support Site.

After updating the site I also got the strange problem that I could not edit content at the front.

Looking for a solution, I found many topics with little response. last topics will direct you to a new plug-in as the solution.

This solution only cost you 120 dollar (oktober 2008) with upgrades for a year. So if there is a big upgrade after a year you can pay again.

The work for development shoot be paid but in reference of other paid components this is way too much, a specially without lifetime upgrades.

I've installed Joomla 1.5.7. After that I installed sh404sef. Everything was fine.
Then I installed JoomFish, cause I need to use three or more languages.
The combination of these two plugins creates a fatal error and the whole site is not running anymore.
Whene I switches off the sh404sef plugin, the website was showing the public-site again.

In the forums of both plugins, I've read a lot of reviews and questions about this problem.
I hope, the creators of JoomFish and sh404sef will help eachother to fix this problem.
Cause I think both plugins should be deliverd in the Joomla-standard-installation.

I started with the beta version and just upgraged to RC1.
Works perfectly. Very easy to use.

Perfect companion for Joomla 1.5

A must have.

I love the logic in which such a complex component is made. I never really needed any tutorials to get it working. Now it even don't slow down your server and it has a fallbacklanguage option ...

Thanks guys!

I use Joom!Fish on three sites - one published in 6 languages, two more published in 10 languages. All sites are using Joomla 1.5.6 and Joom!Fish 2.0.

Not only does this tool allow translating of all our articles, we translate all menu names and many other elements required for the site including custom graphics and videos that change with the language.

I have a team of 26 people involved from many countries with a wide range of technical abilities. Joom!Fish lets me give them appropriate access to create and publish translated articles easily. If they can use a word processor they can create translated articles with Joom!Fish.

The support from the development team is fast and they don't stop until your problem is solved. Supporting the development of this product with the Gold Membership was the best investment I could make for my sites.

If you need to publish your Joomla site in more than one language, get Joom!Fish now. Remember, this is the world wide web.

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I've spent way too long trying to sort out a problem with an older (1.7) version of Joom!Fish on an older (1.0.13) version of Joomla. The problem was when I published the language selector to the front end, the site would be blank from the language selector onwards.

If the language selector was at the top of the page the whole page would be blank, if it was further down in the page, it would be blank from there. In the source, the code would just be blank from where the Joom!Fish langauge selector should appear.

Anyway, the fix for me was to change the permissions of the mambot/search and mambot/system and the files within to 755 or more open.

I always write pages in valid css2.1, but joom!fish disturbs it a little bit. To keep the site valid you have to delete one backslash in the mod_jflanguageselection.css, line 102. Otherwise everything works very well so far, some little bugs while deleting languages (error 500) but it´s ok for this version. keep goin`on.

Works just fine at my site! Thnx for this extension.

This package for joomla is the best solution for managing languages and translations of every thing on a joomla web-page.