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The task is clear - there's content available in different languages . Now the visitor should get a menu in its language. That's simple to make with Pimenu.

Considerations

Contents are to be supplied in German and in English. German should be default language. Now is the question how it would be possible to steer the english menu. On the other side a superordinate order is needed within the admin area to separate german and english contents cleanly.

For this we are using section headers named German and English. But the section headers should not shown in menu. All contents of respective language are created below the section header belonging to it.

With Pimenu now it's possible to group these areas automatically switched by section header. The advantage is all content types can be used  inside the language groups (also further section headers).

But now we need a switch for decision-making too, which delivers its value from outside to Pimenu and can be consulted again in the template for evaluation.

Pimenu will do that for you. It evaluates a $_get variable named pimsw (= pimenuswitch) if available and sets a Smarty variable named $pimsw. Default is 0. Cause default language is german, all german menu entries gets a suffix &pimsw=0 in URL. All english menu entries gets &pimsw=1.

Now we take the default template pimenu.tpl, which represents CSSMENU and change it for our purposes:

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{if $pimsw eq 0}

<form action="index.php" method="get">
<input type="hidden" name="page" value="Suchergebnisse" />
<input type="hidden" name="pimsw" value="0" />
<input type="text" value="" maxlength="50" size="15" name="pisearch" id="query_string" />
<input type="submit" value="Suchen" id="buttonSearch" />
</form>

{else}

<form action="index.php" method="get">
<input type="hidden" name="page" value="Searchresults" />
<input type="hidden" name="pimsw" value="1" />
<input type="text" value="" maxlength="50" size="15" name="pisearch" id="query_string" />
<input type="submit" value="Search" id="buttonSearch" />
</form>

{/if}

<div id="listmenu">
<a href="index.php?page=Home&pimsw=0">Deutsch</a><br />
<a href="index.php?page=Homepage&pimsw=1">English</a><br />

<ul id="primary-nav-vert" class="cssmenu-vertical">

{foreach from=$rawmenu item=entry}
{if $entry->current_lang eq 0 and $pimsw eq 0}
{if $entry->show_in_menu eq 1}
{if $entry->depth neq 0}
{if $entry->next_level > $entry->depth}
{if $entry->type <>'separator'}

<li class="menuparent"><a href="{$entry->url}&pimsw=0"{if $entry->iscurrent eq 1}class="currentpage"{/if}>{$entry->menutext}</a><ul>

{else}

<li class="separator"><ul>

{/if}
{/if}

{if $entry->next_level == $entry->depth}
{if $entry->type <>'separator'}

<li><a href="{$entry->url}&pimsw=0"{if $entry->iscurrent eq 1}class="currentpage"{/if}>{$entry->menutext}</a></li>

{else}

<li class="separator"><li>

{/if}
{/if}

{if $entry->next_level < $entry->depth}
{if $entry->next_level > 0}
{if $entry->type <>'separator'}

<li><a href="{$entry->url}&pimsw=0"{if $entry->iscurrent eq 1}class="currentpage"{/if}>{$entry->menutext}</a></li></ul></li>

{else}

<li class="separator"></li></ul></li>

{/if}

{else}

{if $entry->type <>'separator'}

<li><a href="{$entry->url}&pimsw=0"{if $entry->iscurrent eq 1}class="currentpage"{/if}>{$entry->menutext}</a>

{else}

<li class="separator">

{/if}
{/if}
{/if}

{else}

{$entry->trenner}

{/if}
{/if}
{/if}

{if $entry->current_lang eq 1 and $pimsw eq 1}
{if $entry->show_in_menu eq 1}
{if $entry->depth neq 0}
{if $entry->next_level > $entry->depth}
{if $entry->type <>'separator'}

<li class="menuparent"><a href="{$entry->url}&pimsw=1"{if $entry->iscurrent eq 1}class="currentpage"{/if}>{$entry->menutext}</a><ul>

{else}

<li class="separator"><ul>

{/if}
{/if}

{if $entry->next_level == $entry->depth}
{if $entry->type <>'separator'}

<li><a href="{$entry->url}&pimsw=1"{if $entry->iscurrent eq 1}class="currentpage"{/if}>{$entry->menutext}</a></li>

{else}

<li class="separator"><li>

{/if}
{/if}

{if $entry->next_level < $entry->depth}
{if $entry->next_level > 0}
{if $entry->type <>'separator'}

<li><a href="{$entry->url}&pimsw=1"{if $entry->iscurrent eq 1}class="currentpage"{/if}>{$entry->menutext}</a></li></ul></li>

{else}

<li class="separator"></li></ul></li>

{/if}

{else}

{if $entry->type <>'separator'}

<li><a href="{$entry->url}&pimsw=1"{if $entry->iscurrent eq 1}class="currentpage"{/if}>{$entry->menutext}</a>

{else}

<li class="separator">

{/if}
{/if}
{/if}

{else}

{$entry->trenner}

{/if}
{/if}
{/if}

{/foreach}

</div>

Now the work is done.

Actually only the part within the loop was duplicated and few changes registered. If you need more languages, please make copies of the appropriate parts and register the values.

Patricia wrote: conanis

Patricia wrote: lol, that's a typo, an inversion, it's not "conanis", but "connait".

ok, new version on Piratos site. what's the url again?

gogou wrote: Or can someone help me with a detailled how to?