Adding extra content areas / multilingual site

[millo]

Hi,

I'm new to CMSMS but have got my head around the basics and I'm building away now.

I've got the multilingual version (1.0-beta4 "Hawaii Multilingual") and I'm setting up a site in english and spanish.

Content is translating fine *however* if I go ahead and add new content fields to a template via the suggested method of inserting the following code into the template file ...

{content block='intro'}

... I only get the field available in one language. I.E. I go to a page, select the english version and edit. All fine, however then when I go into the spanish version of the page the content for the extra field has already been saved over from the english version. That's because the page only recognises these pieces of content as a one language type content field and not a multilanguage content type field.

Is that clear?

Any way to remedy this?

Btw, Great CMS. Thanks!

[newclear]

i didnot know about this but i can say why this happens

because the multilingual version is unofficial

[katon]

I'm going to add multilingual content blocks soon.

[visitor]

I'm going to add multilingual content blocks soon.

Do you have any idea when "soon" is going to be? I absolutely LOVE CMSMS and would hate to use a different one. But without multilingual support i'm afraid i will have to...

Cheers

[katon]

It's already there in build 3.  You can try it, but please be aware that in a couple of days I'm going to release build 4 with some bugfixes.  I think that will be the last build of 1.0.2.

[visitor]

It's already there in build 3.  You can try it, but please be aware that in a couple of days I'm going to release build 4 with some bugfixes.  I think that will be the last build of 1.0.2.

Oh really? I sure as hell will take a look right away!

P.S.: You really should include a small readme that tells people that they need to create a config_lang.php and what they're supposed to put in there. Simply installing the CMS through the script won't activate the multilang options as you probably know.

[visitor]

From a first look it doesn't seem to work. Or do i have to create a new page first? Or even a new template? Or could it be that you only added global content blocks but millo and me are talking about multiple content fields?

[katon]

Please make sure the installer has managed to create config_lang.php in the root directory.

[visitor]

Please make sure the installer has managed to create config_lang.php in the root directory.

I guess with "root directory" you mean the cms' base directory. No, the installer did not create a config_lang.php by itself. I had to do it on my own.

[katon]

This is not bad if the file is valid and readable.

[visitor]

My fault: I had chosen to install the templates, which i shouldn't have done.

So i've installed it again, this time without the example templates, and it did ask me for language options. So far so good.

But in the end the only block i could translate was the main {content} one. Any other block (like {content block='right'} ) was always the same on all languages.

Wouldn't it be better to create (for german in my case)
prop_names_en
prop_names_de

tables instead of

content_name_en
content_name_de

tables???

Wouldn't that work better in order to store translated content blocks?

[katon]

There is only multilingual support for main content and for global content blocks.  If this is what you mean.

[visitor]

There is only multilingual support for main content and for global content blocks.  If this is what you mean.

Ok, now i understand, we misunderderstood then.

Ah well, i'll have to use a different CMS then... Thanks anyway.

[freda]

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