Multilingual Support

macangelo · Post by **macangelo** » Mon 16. Aug 2004, 16:35

What I would like to use is:

I can choose - where ever I need to define this - which languages I want - let's say German, English, French, Chinese.

Whenever I setup a structure or an article in my default language, it is also created in the other language: pictures at the same places, content parts as defined and so on. The only thing I need to do in the other languages is to replace the text with the translations.

Is this a nice dream? Is this possible?

Dreaming Macangelo

agitator · Post by **agitator** » Sun 3. Oct 2004, 04:24

Not really a dream as I hope. I'm planning a ~10 languages (authors and content) project about the river Danube (with content in the Danube region oficial and minority languages).

Technically this means content submission in every project language, dynamic menues in every project language (I'm not in phpwcms, I haven't even downloaded it by now), display of content in working language if no translation to users default language is available.

A simple question: Will phpwcms make this possible?

brans · Post by **brans** » Sun 3. Oct 2004, 13:47

yes phpwcms will be able to do fullfill your needs but as you can read from the first article you are forced to copy every article by hand...

I think the above mentioned method will be absolutely hard to realize... simply think about how to realize it ?!? It will be nearly impossible to create a solution that will fit to almost everyone on the net... if you do it one way maybe 20% of the ppl will be satisfied with one solution, 40% with another and so on...

you could work out a solution for you problem and make a suggestion... maybe then we could work out a solution all together and then pass it to OG for his future coding work !?

macangelo · Post by **macangelo** » Mon 4. Oct 2004, 06:03

One of the ideas for a workaround - which I didn't go so far - is:

You set up the site in one language.
You set up a separate phpwcms for each language in a separate folder.
You make a mysql dump and import it for the new phpwcms installations. You change the prefix of the tables (de_phpwcms_articles, en_phpwcms_articles) so that you can have everything in one database if you need to...

Makes probably only sense for a new setup and not for maintnance...

All the best
Macangelo

agitator · Post by **agitator** » Mon 4. Oct 2004, 17:26

macangelo wrote: You set up the site in one language.
You set up a separate phpwcms for each language in a separate folder.
You make a mysql dump and import it for the new phpwcms installations. You change the prefix of the tables (de_phpwcms_articles, en_phpwcms_articles) so that you can have everything in one database if you need to...

Makes probably only sense for a new setup and not for maintnance...

But how to keep track of original content submission in all the languages when working with several installations? This would only work with 1 original language (or static content) as far as I understand.

Or did I get it wrong?