Almost real multilingual support

[katon]

With Ted's help, I have moved my bilingual support to version 0.12.  It takes some twists at the installation stage, but it's worth it if you need to have the same pages in both language versions.  You add the English version, and then you MUST add content in the other language as well. Maybe not perfect, but much better than have two different page trees.  Feel free to comment.

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[cyberman]

Screenshot looks nice but where can I download it for testing  ?

[katon]

I haven't made it available yet.  I have used it in bilingual environment only, and I would like to test it with more than two languages.  Theoretically it must work, but I haven't tried yet.  Give me a couple of days.

[katon]

Ok, I have the first beta ready.  The install is a little more than 1MB large.  Where is the best place to upload it?

[cyberman]

Hmm, the best place would be CMSms Forge  but I don't know if Ted will accept such a project there  ...

Instead you can also post a link  ...

[katon]

Good news.  Ted was kind to start a temporary project for the multilingual files.  If it gets good feedback, good testing, dev support from other cmsms community and approval from the leading cmsms developers, it will be set up as a core branch and then may be used as basis for the built-in REAL multilingual support.  But before that, it has a long way to go...

Download beta1 here:
http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/multilang/

It's based on version 0.12.  The first couple of days may be very productive in finding bugs and generating ideas for improvements. 

[cyberman]

Sounds great - I will try it  ...

[fuxma]

I tested it, too. Unfortunately or - maybe good for the future - I already found some bugs. Where/what is the best way to report them? The mailing list? The projects own forum?

[katon]

Let's use the project forum.  I have already found a major bug, too - which makes it unusable, but please report all you find.

[fuxma]

Ok, I started filling the bug tracking system, the projects forum is probably better for discussing bugs and features.

[katon]

Guys, please let me know how it goes with the second beta.  I know about the problem with setting the default page - I don't know what is causing it. But I don't find this a major issue, because normally you have the home page as default.

If somebody wants to contribute to the development here, please let me know!

[peter19]

I'm playing around with beta2, seems to work pretty good, thanks! Have a question though.

I've modified the basic menu setup so now when I click on a link in my bulletmenu, the language parameter isn't active anymore. Everything works fine when I add it manually to the url though.

I've checked out function.bulletmenu.php and found this line :

$menu .= "GetURL()."&lan=???"."\"";

I've added "&lan=???" as you can see, so now is my question : where is the value stored for the language and can I access it via this function?

Thanks.

[katon]

It's obtained from the template_config.php file as a global variable.

[galder]

Hello everybody,

This weekend, I have instaled CMS Made Simple. It seems what I need for a project I'm developing.

Thanks to everybody in advance for making this work.

Nowadays multilinguism is so important that I can't understand why most of the CMS make it so difficult, and I think your hack looks great.

Could you tell me when will be the multilinguism, for more than 3 languages be available?

Thanks again,

Galder

http://www.galder.net

[katon]

Well, theoretically it must work with any number of languages.