The following has been tested on a Cloud9 server with the following versions:
Based on the CodeIgniter tutorial
This page assume that your langage already exists in the CodeIgniter 3 Translations repositories. This example explains how to switch from English to French.
Clone the repository (outside of your development workspace):
git clone https://github.com/bcit-ci/codeigniter3-translations.git
Create a symbolic link from the previous folder to your application/language folder:
ln -s ~/codeigniter3-translations/language/french/ ~/workspace/application/language/
Update the variable $config['language']
in /application/config/config.php:
$config['language'] = 'french';