MLE and News Module

[philip142au]

Hi, I installed and got running the MLE (Multi-Language Extension).

However it looks like the news module is not working under MLE? Is this true?

Does anyone know how I can get news as MLE?

Best regards, Philip

[alby]

However it looks like the news module is not working under MLE? Is this true?

Does anyone know how I can get news as MLE?

Have you read Howto?

Alby

[philip142au]

Hi Alby, yes I read (after posting I found the news part) and did that - however, its not working for my news unless I use a English character at the start of the TITLE for the news article.

My site is in English and Chinese traditional.

So for the Chinese, if the title is totally Chinese, its not happening.

You can see the problem at http://www.orsa-studio.com/client/heifer/
Change the website language on top right to Chinese.
Click on the news article where title starts with "a" character and it works.
For article without any English character, it fails.

Regards, Philip

[alby]

My site is in English and Chinese traditional.

So for the Chinese, if the title is totally Chinese, its not happening.

You can see the problem at http://www.orsa-studio.com/client/heifer/
Change the website language on top right to Chinese.
Click on the news article where title starts with "a" character and it works.
For article without any English character, it fails.

Use a extra field for alias your title

Alby

[justin16l]

I'm also having a problem with this. {$lang}, if placed in the body of a template, returns the language properly, such as 'en_US'. However, if I put lang inside of the News module, such as {news category="Category Name - $lang" number="1" moretext="more info" detailpage="news"} it just returns 'Array'. Any idea of what I'm doing wrong? I'm on MLE 1.6.7.

[justin16l]

I just figured this one out. I couldn't use $lang inside of a tag unless it was assigned to another variable for some reason. This only worked when done within the html 'body' (within 'header' failed): {capture assign='langvar'}{$lang}{/capture} , then I could load it into the news module, and it worked: {news category="Cat Name-$langvar" number="1" moretext="more info" detailpage="news"} .

[alby]

I'm also having a problem with this. {$lang}, if placed in the body of a template, returns the language properly, such as 'en_US'. However, if I put lang inside of the News module, such as {news category="Category Name - $lang" number="1" moretext="more info" detailpage="news"} it just returns 'Array'. Any idea of what I'm doing wrong? I'm on MLE 1.6.7.

I have not this behaviour.
$lang works in template header (e.g. {title} | {sitename} | {$lang}) and in template body with:
{news number="3" detailpage="news" category="General-$lang" lang="$lang"}
(not work but if I rename General in General-en_US work well)

Have you checked in Admin Global settings?

Alby