Recommendations for a bilingual site?

[KaiMartin]

Hi
our site is in need for bilingual pages in one form or another (English-Deutsch). Skipping through the forum, I found the  multilingual modification (fork?) by Katon.  The latest version of CMSMS that had the multilingual patches applied seems to be v0.12. Now, I just started to build the site and consequently run the current v0.13.

What is the recommended way to deal with this situation?

• Downgrade to v0.12 multilingual?
• Do without the patches and basically build twin sites in parallel installations of CMSMS?
• Hold my breath until the multilingual patches get merged into the main tree?

 
Any hints welcome,
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[tsw]

one more option

create your pages like this

en
---frontpage
---secondpage
de
---whatever frontpage is
---and so on

then you can grab the language links by using menumanagers number_of_levels='1' and for the menus use start_level="2"

multilingual is coming but it will still take some time...

[KaiMartin]

@tsw
Sounds good. I'll try to adopt your option.
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[tristan]

Is this trick done with the EllNav module? How would you go on then and display a vertical submenu bar (submenu for your horizontal main menu bar).

Regards,

Tristan

[KaiMartin]

I'll try to adopt your option.

Done.

For the record, this is what I did:

• Make two copies of my favorite menu template (button in Layout/Templates). Rename one 'menu_lang', the other 'menu_content'.
• modify the calls of the menu manager in the menu templates.
  In menu_lang:

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  {cms_module module='menumanager' template='cssmenu-accessible.tpl' number_of_levels='1' }

  In menu_content:

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  {cms_module module='menumanager' template='cssmenu-accessible.tpl' start_level='2'}

  [li]Make menu_content the default template.
• Set all pages to menu_content.
• Write a short start page. Set the template of this page to menu_lang.
• Set up a page for each language with no parents. (template: menu_content)
• Make a link to the start page below each language page.
• Put the translated content below the corresponding language page.

Result can be seen at http://lilalaser.de/lila. (Not much content, yet...)

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[KaiMartin]

Is this trick done with the EllNav module?

My site uses the CSS-menu. (See http://lilalaser.de)
The solution is not perfect as there are no flags to click on and it cannot switch languages on the fly. But I can live with it, until multilinguality finally hits the main version of cmsms. 

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