Does anyone have an idea on how to translate the validation script messages?
I am using Breezing Forms and I have 2 languages on my site. All the labels and radio buttons and options of drop-down lists can be translated using Joomfish, but I am unable to figure out how to translate the validation messages.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Hi,

the messages should be translatable as well. Let me check the joomfish plugin since I must fix something there anyway.

thanks for your quick reply. i guess that if it is translatable in joomfish, it would have appeared under the 'Label:Data' but it is not appearing.

The most simple way is to make a copy of the whole form and translate.. then in Joom!Fish make the second language link to the new translated form!

If the only solution to this is by creating another form, then the availability of translation for Breezing Forms in Joomfish is useless

I've been hung up on this for a while, too. I finally figured it out. It's so simple it's not even funny. All you have to do is use php code in the message field and call JTEXT to pass along a language tag.

example:

<?php return JTEXT::_('MY_MESSAGE_TEXT'); ?>

You then have to add your message to an existing language file (preferably one that's already loaded) or create and load your own. You can load a language file in the before form piece like this:

JFactory::getLanguage()->load('my_lang_file');

Next create the appropriate files in the language directories. For this example, I would need files such as these:

/language/en-GB/en-GB.my_lang_file.ini
/language/fr-FR/fr-FR.my_lang_file.ini
/language/es-ES/es-ES.my_lang_file.ini

etc.

Hope that helps!!
Greg