Multilanguage CMSMS MLE version 1.1.1

alby · **Posted:** Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:55 pm

I had an old academic site with Multilanguage CMSMS MLE 1.02 of Katon and other.
I wanted upgrade to new version of official release of CMSMS and I couldn't wait 2.0 release for security concerns :-\
It's very very "great and simple" for users but this project is dead :'(

True than I don't like the logic (add columns to [cms_]content and [cms_]htmlblobs is a bad idea) but it's a transition until 2.0 stable :)

Well, I have apply patch parts of CMSMS MLE 1.02 to 1.07, 1.08 and in production with 1.1 and I think that works.
Now, I have apply to 1.1.1 (SVN revision 4085) of 23 August, 19.30 UTC.

I tested, and working, directly on normal CMSMS installation (don't rename to config_lang.php in root directory)

IMPORTANT: missing install MLE part, you can't install directly a new site in a MLE version, therefore:
- is required a working site with CMSMS MLE 1.02 or
- install a new site and after you transform in MLE or
- use a working CMSMS site and transform in MLE

PLEASE read README.FIRST file in root directory for other info, sql queries for transform in MLE, ....

DIFFERENCE FROM 1.02 MLE, in bold the difference that BREAK compatibility with MLE 1.02:

- For semplicity I move logical define MLE from index.php to include.php (include.php is required in any scripts, admin too)

- Limited difference (in number and part) of files for relative simple synch with official CMSMS release

- Change language array config_lang.php to locale (no en,es but p.e. en_GB,es_MX) for finest language selection

- Selected language is define in:
locale (overwrite locale, leave empty in config.php),
frontend language (overwrite frontend language, leave empty in admin -> Global Settings),
current language (in this way CMSMS load current locale language for ALL modules)

- Define a smarty compileid language dependant for avoid compiling and caching problem with a unique template for all languages

- Increment of caching at level of official release (caching of MLE 1.02 is off)

- Smarty template variable {$lang} assign to current locale language (p.e. en_US, it_IT) and {$currlang} (p.e. en, es) for use in metadata language tag

- Define a personal language file (mle/lang/en_US.php, mle/lang/it_IT.php, ...) for template use, sintax is {$mle_translation.your_key_for_translation} (see in mle/lang/ for example)

- Try to recognize user visited and display relative language (TCN plus cookie), DEFAULT LANGUAGE if not. It's the method of php site and similar to this

- Lang Icons are in /admin/images/lang and /images/lang. Check your flags if present or rename from "your_country.png" to "your_locale.png".

- Add use of additional content block (language dependant transparent)

REMEMBER:
- It's not a fork of CMSMS but un update of CMSMS MLE 1.02 (http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/multilang)
- I don't support this (lack of time) for feature and bugs
- If you don't have CMSMS MLE 1.02 and you can wait a few months, go directly to CMSMS 2.0 release

- If you want to try this then:

EDIT: follow this topic for other info
DOWNLOAD in Multilingual project

Difference files only. The difference, in source, with official release are between comments:
// Start MLE
... difference ...
// End MLE

Good luck
Alby

alby · **Posted:** Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:30 am

alby wrote:

Now, I have apply to 1.1.1 (SVN revision 4085) of 23 August, 19.30 UTC.

Ok, I update to final release of CMSMS 1.1.1
I tested in normal sites and multilingual sites and work well

Alby

cyberman · **Posted:** Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:47 am

Sounds great - thx.

Maybe you should ask Ted if he can add you to MLE project so you can release files there and it's available for all users (not only for readers of this topic

).

alby · **Posted:** Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:27 pm

alby wrote:

Now, I have apply to 1.1.1 (SVN revision 4085) of 23 August, 19.30 UTC.

Ok, I update to final release of CMSMS 1.1.2

Changed from prev release:
Insert flags list in:
listcontent
editcontent
edithtmlblobs

for a quickly switch language

DOWNLOAD in Multilingual projects

Alby

pixelenvy · **Posted:** Fri Sep 07, 2007 4:55 pm

I had some trouble finding a list of locale language codes, so I found a pretty exhaustive list.

Code:

 Locale id           Locale name
 ==================================================
 aa                  Afar
 aa_DJ               Afar Djibouti
 aa_ER               Afar Eritrea
 aa_ER_SAAHO         Afar Eritrea Saaho
 aa_ET               Afar Ethiopia
 af                  Afrikaans
 af_NA               Afrikaans Namibia
 af_ZA               Afrikaans South Africa
 ak                  Akan
 ak_GH               Akan Ghana
 am                  Amharic
 am_ET               Amharic Ethiopia
 ar                  Arabic
 ar_AE               Arabic United Arab Emirates
 ar_BH               Arabic Bahrain
 ar_DZ               Arabic Algeria
 ar_EG               Arabic Egypt
 ar_IQ               Arabic Iraq
 ar_JO               Arabic Jordan
 ar_KW               Arabic Kuwait
 ar_LB               Arabic Lebanon
 ar_LY               Arabic Libya
 ar_MA               Arabic Morocco
 ar_OM               Arabic Oman
 ar_QA               Arabic Qatar
 ar_SA               Arabic Saudi Arabia
 ar_SD               Arabic Sudan
 ar_SY               Arabic Syria
 ar_TN               Arabic Tunisia
 ar_YE               Arabic Yemen
 as                  Assamese
 as_IN               Assamese India
 az                  Azerbaijani
 az_AZ               Azerbaijani Azerbaijan
 az_Cyrl             Azerbaijani (Cyrillic)
 az_Cyrl_AZ          Azerbaijani Azerbaijan (Cyrillic)
 az_Latn             Azerbaijani (Latin)
 az_Latn_AZ          Azerbaijani Azerbaijan (Latin)
 be                  Belarusian
 be_BY               Belarusian Belarus
 bg                  Bulgarian
 bg_BG               Bulgarian Bulgaria
 bn                  Bengali
 bn_BD               Bengali Bangladesh
 bn_IN               Bengali India
 bs                  Bosnian
 bs_BA               Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina
 byn                 Blin
 byn_ER              Blin Eritrea
 ca                  Catalan
 ca_ES               Catalan Spain
 cch                 Atsam
 cch_NG              Atsam Nigeria
 cs                  Czech
 cs_CZ               Czech Czech Republic
 cy                  Welsh
 cy_GB               Welsh United Kingdom
 da                  Danish
 da_DK               Danish Denmark
 de                  German
 de_AT               German Austria
 de_BE               German Belgium
 de_CH               German Switzerland
 de_DE               German Germany
 de_LI               German Liechtenstein
 de_LU               German Luxembourg
 dz                  Dzongkha
 dz_BT               Dzongkha Bhutan
 ee                  Ewe
 ee_GH               Ewe Ghana
 ee_TG               Ewe Togo
 el                  Greek
 el_CY               Greek Cyprus
 el_GR               Greek Greece
 el_POLYTONI         Greek
 en                  English
 en_AS               English American Samoa
 en_AU               English Australia
 en_BE               English Belgium
 en_BW               English Botswana
 en_BZ               English Belize
 en_CA               English Canada
 en_GB               English United Kingdom
 en_GU               English Guam
 en_HK               English Hong Kong SAR China
 en_IE               English Ireland
 en_IN               English India
 en_JM               English Jamaica
 en_MH               English Marshall Islands
 en_MP               English Northern Mariana Islands
 en_MT               English Malta
 en_NA               English Namibia
 en_NZ               English New Zealand
 en_PH               English Philippines
 en_PK               English Pakistan
 en_SG               English Singapore
 en_TT               English Trinidad and Tobago
 en_UM               English United States Minor Outlying Islands
 en_US               English United States
 en_US_POSIX         English United States Posix
 en_VI               English U.S. Virgin Islands
 en_ZA               English South Africa
 en_ZW               English Zimbabwe
 eo                  Esperanto
 es                  Spanish
 es_AR               Spanish Argentina
 es_BO               Spanish Bolivia
 es_CL               Spanish Chile
 es_CO               Spanish Colombia
 es_CR               Spanish Costa Rica
 es_DO               Spanish Dominican Republic
 es_EC               Spanish Ecuador
 es_ES               Spanish Spain
 es_GT               Spanish Guatemala
 es_HN               Spanish Honduras
 es_MX               Spanish Mexico
 es_NI               Spanish Nicaragua
 es_PA               Spanish Panama
 es_PE               Spanish Peru
 es_PR               Spanish Puerto Rico
 es_PY               Spanish Paraguay
 es_SV               Spanish El Salvador
 es_US               Spanish United States
 es_UY               Spanish Uruguay
 es_VE               Spanish Venezuela
 et                  Estonian
 et_EE               Estonian Estonia
 eu                  Basque
 eu_ES               Basque Spain
 fi                  Finnish
 fi_FI               Finnish Finland
 fo                  Faroese
 fo_FO               Faroese Faroe Islands
 fr                  French
 fr_BE               French Belgium
 fr_CA               French Canada
 fr_CH               French Switzerland
 fr_FR               French France
 fr_LU               French Luxembourg
 fr_MC               French Monaco
 fur                 Friulian
 fur_IT              Friulian Italy
 ga                  Irish
 ga_IE               Irish Ireland
 gaa                 Ga
 gaa_GH              Ga Ghana
 gez                 Geez
 gez_ER              Geez Eritrea
 gez_ET              Geez Ethiopia
 gl                  Galician
 gl_ES               Galician Spain
 gu                  Gujarati
 gu_IN               Gujarati India
 gv                  Manx
 gv_GB               Manx United Kingdom
 ha                  Hausa
 ha_Arab             Hausa (Arabic)
 ha_Arab_NG          Hausa Nigeria (Arabic)
 ha_GH               Hausa Ghana
 ha_Latn             Hausa (Latin)
 ha_Latn_GH          Hausa Ghana (Latin)
 ha_Latn_NE          Hausa Niger (Latin)
 ha_Latn_NG          Hausa Nigeria (Latin)
 ha_NE               Hausa Niger
 ha_NG               Hausa Nigeria
 haw                 Hawaiian
 haw_US              Hawaiian United States
 he                  Hebrew
 he_IL               Hebrew Israel
 hi                  Hindi
 hi_IN               Hindi India
 hr                  Croatian
 hr_HR               Croatian Croatia
 hu                  Hungarian
 hu_HU               Hungarian Hungary
 hy                  Armenian
 hy_AM               Armenian Armenia
 hy_AM_REVISED       Armenian Armenia Revised
 ia                  Interlingua
 id                  Indonesian
 id_ID               Indonesian Indonesia
 ig                  Igbo
 ig_NG               Igbo Nigeria
 is                  Icelandic
 is_IS               Icelandic Iceland
 it                  Italian
 it_CH               Italian Switzerland
 it_IT               Italian Italy
 iu                  Inuktitut
 ja                  Japanese
 ja_JP               Japanese Japan
 ka                  Georgian
 ka_GE               Georgian Georgia
 kaj                 Jju
 kaj_NG              Jju Nigeria
 kam                 Kamba
 kam_KE              Kamba Kenya
 kcg                 Tyap
 kcg_NG              Tyap Nigeria
 kfo                 Koro
 kfo_NG              Koro Nigeria
 kk                  Kazakh
 kk_KZ               Kazakh Kazakhstan
 kl                  Kalaallisut
 kl_GL               Kalaallisut Greenland
 km                  Khmer
 km_KH               Khmer Cambodia
 kn                  Kannada
 kn_IN               Kannada India
 ko                  Korean
 ko_KR               Korean South Korea
 kok                 Konkani
 kok_IN              Konkani India
 kw                  Cornish
 kw_GB               Cornish United Kingdom
 ln                  Lingala
 ln_CD               Lingala Congo (Kinshasa)
 ln_CG               Lingala Congo (Brazzaville)
 lo                  Lao
 lo_LA               Lao Laos
 lt                  Lithuanian
 lt_LT               Lithuanian Lithuania
 lv                  Latvian
 lv_LV               Latvian Latvia
 mk                  Macedonian
 mk_MK               Macedonian Macedonia
 ml                  Malayalam
 ml_IN               Malayalam India
 mn                  Mongolian
 mn_MN               Mongolian Mongolia
 mr                  Marathi
 mr_IN               Marathi India
 ms                  Malay
 ms_BN               Malay Brunei
 ms_MY               Malay Malaysia
 mt                  Maltese
 mt_MT               Maltese Malta
 nb                  Norwegian BokmÃ¥l
 nb_NO               Norwegian BokmÃ¥l Norway
 ne                  Nepali
 ne_NP               Nepali Nepal
 nl                  Dutch
 nl_BE               Dutch Belgium
 nl_NL               Dutch Netherlands
 nn                  Norwegian Nynorsk
 nn_NO               Norwegian Nynorsk Norway
 nr                  South Ndebele
 nr_ZA               South Ndebele South Africa
 nso                 Northern Sotho
 nso_ZA              Northern Sotho South Africa
 ny                  Nyanja; Chichewa; Chewa
 ny_MW               Nyanja; Chichewa; Chewa Malawi
 om                  Oromo
 om_ET               Oromo Ethiopia
 om_KE               Oromo Kenya
 pa                  Punjabi
 pa_Arab             Punjabi (Arabic)
 pa_Arab_PK          Punjabi Pakistan (Arabic)
 pa_Guru             Punjabi (Gurmukhi)
 pa_Guru_IN          Punjabi India (Gurmukhi)
 pa_IN               Punjabi India
 pa_PK               Punjabi Pakistan
 pl                  Polish
 pl_PL               Polish Poland
 pt                  Portuguese
 pt_BR               Portuguese Brazil
 pt_PT               Portuguese Portugal
 ro                  Romanian
 ro_RO               Romanian Romania
 root                Root
 ru                  Russian
 ru_RU               Russian Russia
 ru_UA               Russian Ukraine
 rw                  Kinyarwanda
 rw_RW               Kinyarwanda Rwanda
 sh                  Serbo-Croatian
 sh_BA               Serbo-Croatian Bosnia and Herzegovina
 sh_CS               Serbo-Croatian Serbia And Montenegro
 sh_YU               Serbo-Croatian
 sid                 Sidamo
 sid_ET              Sidamo Ethiopia
 sk                  Slovak
 sk_SK               Slovak Slovakia
 sl                  Slovenian
 sl_SI               Slovenian Slovenia
 so                  Somali
 so_DJ               Somali Djibouti
 so_ET               Somali Ethiopia
 so_KE               Somali Kenya
 so_SO               Somali Somalia
 sq                  Albanian
 sq_AL               Albanian Albania
 sr                  Serbian
 sr_BA               Serbian Bosnia and Herzegovina
 sr_CS               Serbian Serbia And Montenegro
 sr_Cyrl             Serbian (Cyrillic)
 sr_Cyrl_BA          Serbian Bosnia and Herzegovina (Cyrillic)
 sr_Cyrl_CS          Serbian Serbia And Montenegro (Cyrillic)
 sr_Cyrl_ME          Serbian Montenegro (Cyrillic)
 sr_Cyrl_RS          Serbian Serbia (Cyrillic)
 sr_Cyrl_YU          Serbian (Cyrillic)
 sr_Latn             Serbian (Latin)
 sr_Latn_BA          Serbian Bosnia and Herzegovina (Latin)
 sr_Latn_CS          Serbian Serbia And Montenegro (Latin)
 sr_Latn_ME          Serbian Montenegro (Latin)
 sr_Latn_RS          Serbian Serbia (Latin)
 sr_Latn_YU          Serbian (Latin)
 sr_ME               Serbian Montenegro
 sr_RS               Serbian Serbia
 sr_YU               Serbian
 ss                  Swati
 ss_ZA               Swati South Africa
 st                  Southern Sotho
 st_ZA               Southern Sotho South Africa
 sv                  Swedish
 sv_FI               Swedish Finland
 sv_SE               Swedish Sweden
 sw                  Swahili
 sw_KE               Swahili Kenya
 sw_TZ               Swahili Tanzania
 syr                 Syriac
 syr_SY              Syriac Syria
 ta                  Tamil
 ta_IN               Tamil India
 te                  Telugu
 te_IN               Telugu India
 tg                  Tajik
 tg_TJ               Tajik Tajikistan
 th                  Thai
 th_TH               Thai Thailand
 ti                  Tigrinya
 ti_ER               Tigrinya Eritrea
 ti_ET               Tigrinya Ethiopia
 tig                 Tigre
 tig_ER              Tigre Eritrea
 tn                  Tswana
 tn_ZA               Tswana South Africa
 tr                  Turkish
 tr_TR               Turkish Turkey
 ts                  Tsonga
 ts_ZA               Tsonga South Africa
 uk                  Ukrainian
 uk_UA               Ukrainian Ukraine
 uz                  Uzbek
 uz_AF               Uzbek Afghanistan
 uz_Arab             Uzbek (Arabic)
 uz_Arab_AF          Uzbek Afghanistan (Arabic)
 uz_Cyrl             Uzbek (Cyrillic)
 uz_Cyrl_UZ          Uzbek Uzbekistan (Cyrillic)
 uz_Latn             Uzbek (Latin)
 uz_Latn_UZ          Uzbek Uzbekistan (Latin)
 uz_UZ               Uzbek Uzbekistan
 ve                  Venda
 ve_ZA               Venda South Africa
 vi                  Vietnamese
 vi_VN               Vietnamese Vietnam
 wal                 Walamo
 wal_ET              Walamo Ethiopia
 xh                  Xhosa
 xh_ZA               Xhosa South Africa
 yo                  Yoruba
 yo_NG               Yoruba Nigeria
 zh                  Chinese
 zh_CN               Chinese China
 zh_HK               Chinese Hong Kong SAR China
 zh_Hans             Chinese (Simplified Han)
 zh_Hans_CN          Chinese China (Simplified Han)
 zh_Hans_SG          Chinese Singapore (Simplified Han)
 zh_Hant             Chinese (Traditional Han)
 zh_Hant_HK          Chinese Hong Kong SAR China (Traditional Han)
 zh_Hant_MO          Chinese Macao SAR China (Traditional Han)
 zh_Hant_TW          Chinese Taiwan (Traditional Han)
 zh_MO               Chinese Macao SAR China
 zh_SG               Chinese Singapore
 zh_TW               Chinese Taiwan
 zu                  Zulu
 zu_ZA               Zulu South Africa

alby · **Posted:** Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:05 pm

pixelenvy wrote:

I had some trouble finding a list of locale language codes, so I found a pretty exhaustive list.

Code:

 Locale id           Locale name
 ==================================================
................

It's important but use locale languages contained in CMSMS translations (look in admin/lang and modules/lang that you use)

Alby

pixelenvy · **Posted:** Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:12 pm

alby wrote:

pixelenvy wrote:

I had some trouble finding a list of locale language codes, so I found a pretty exhaustive list.

Code:

 Locale id           Locale name
 ==================================================
................

It's important but use locale languages contained in CMSMS translations (look in admin/lang and modules/lang that you use)

Alby

Okay, cool.

Quick question, though. Am I limited to those languages in there?

pixelenvy · **Posted:** Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:12 pm

Also, I am having a few issues with this:

1. Title and Menu Title are not being retained

2. And, when I view the site, I get an Error 404

Note, I am using the settings you provided.. I haven't changed anything. I'm doing, more or less, a proof-of-concept, so I just installed it, and removed .alby from config_lang.php.alby . And, that happened.

Any ideas?

alby · **Posted:** Fri Sep 07, 2007 7:47 pm

pixelenvy wrote:

Quick question, though. Am I limited to those languages in there?

If you want the core/module translation (backend and frontend), you must use languages always present in distribution or you must provide all new translations for use them

pixelenvy wrote:

Also, I am having a few issues with this:

1. Title and Menu Title are not being retained
2. And, when I view the site, I get an Error 404

Note, I am using the settings you provided.. I haven't changed anything. I'm doing, more or less, a proof-of-concept, so I just installed it, and removed .alby from config_lang.php.alby . And, that happened.

Have you read README.FIRST? You must transform in MLE DB (or you must have a MLE 1.02 installed)

The distribution is a CMSMS 1.1.2 (monolingual) if you don't rename config_lang.php.alby (the MLE code isn't active).
If you rename config_lang.php.alby with config_lang.php CMSMS think you have un MLE db.

See this topic for info on sql queries

Alby

chipper · **Joined:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:29 pm **Posts:** 42

Hi - me again - am now moving my question to this topic as it's now become very relevant.

Now that I have mle 1.1.2 up and running, I have the same question re language toggling - how do I add a switch language toggle button to the front end - I tried your first suggestion:

English - Italiano

(edited of course to reflect the fact that I am using Welsh) It was just a stab in the dark as clearly I have now changed my method to yours and I didn't think it would work - it doesn't!

Could you help me out by providing the switch language code for this?

Forever grateful

Molte grazie!

Lynne

alby · **Posted:** Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:32 pm

chipper wrote:

Hi - me again - am now moving my question to this topic as it's now become very relevant.

Now that I have mle 1.1.2 up and running, I have the same question re language toggling - how do I add a switch language toggle button to the front end - I tried your first suggestion:

English - Italiano

(edited of course to reflect the fact that I am using Welsh) It was just a stab in the dark as clearly I have now changed my method to yours and I didn't think it would work - it doesn't!

Could you help me out by providing the switch language code for this?

Very simple: {lang}
view in plugins -> help (relative to function.lang) for other params

chipper wrote:

Molte grazie!

Thank you very much

Alby

chipper · **Joined:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:29 pm **Posts:** 42

That did it - brilliant!

A great help to me - and many others I would think

Best regards
Lynne

PS Watched a TV programme set in Italy today - it's a beautiful country you live in

chipper · **Joined:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:29 pm **Posts:** 42

Hi

Now that I have the multilingual version up and running successfully I'd like to be able to switch stylesheets to bring in different image backgrounds and banners for the English and Welsh vesions.

(Not sure if this should be a new topic but am asking here anyhow! Correct me if I am wrong.)

As the English and Welsh pages share the same template (well I haven't managed to see a way of assigning different templates - could be me!) how could I pull in different stylesheets for each language?

Have searched for info re stylesheet switching but haven't managed to find anything really relevant or that I could follow - the focus is often on the user changing the stylesheet on request

Is there a solution to this?

Many thanks in advance

Lynne

alby · **Posted:** Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:30 am

chipper wrote:

Now that I have the multilingual version up and running successfully I'd like to be able to switch stylesheets to bring in different image backgrounds and banners for the English and Welsh vesions.

(Not sure if this should be a new topic but am asking here anyhow! Correct me if I am wrong.)

As the English and Welsh pages share the same template (well I haven't managed to see a way of assigning different templates - could be me!) how could I pull in different stylesheets for each language?

Have searched for info re stylesheet switching but haven't managed to find anything really relevant or that I could follow - the focus is often on the user changing the stylesheet on request

Is there a solution to this?

I don't never think at this question.
Possible solutions:

- If you have class/id CSS for different language (NOT html{...}, *{...}) only:
rename your class in this mode: StyleClassForThisTag in
StyleClassForThisTag_en_US{...}, StyleClassForThisTag_it_IT{...}, ... with difference of style languages

In template call this class:

...

- With general html{...}, *{...}, ... (this solution break the simple use of CMSMS):
create FILES stylesheet en_US.css, it_IT.css with the difference of style languages ONLY and NOT in common
In template or in Global Settings -> Metadata (this for all templates) add this:

Alby

Sofia1 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:36 pm

Hi All, sorry for being daft, but I am currently using CMSMS v1.1 and I would like to convert this to the multi-lingual version.
I have tried installing it, but the install php does not do anything (it just loads a blank page).

Does anyone have a step by step idiots guide? Sorry for being a bit daft.

Thanks, Philipp

Multilanguage CMSMS MLE version 1.1.1

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