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This web site has been made with the multilingual modification of CMSMadeSimple:
http://nishiobudo.org.ua

That's terrific! Being able to produce multilingual sites is a top priority for CMS ms as for me. How did you do this one? I wish there were a simple module...

I was using this hack:
http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/multilang/
It's a temporary solution.  Make sure to read the readme file before the install.

That looks great. Nice one Katon.

Katon,

Thank you for the great code.  I needed multilanguage support.

If I turn on search engine friendly urls the navigation stops workings.

The system chokes on the "&lan=en" appended to the "page_name.html".

If you have the time and desire, would it be possible to make multilang work with the following format? 
http://www.domain.tld/en/page_name.html
http://www.domain.tld/es/page_name.html
http://www.domain.tld/au/page_name.html

Either way, thank you for the great code.

Edward

ealfert wrote: If I turn on search engine friendly urls the navigation stops workings.

The system chokes on the "&lan=en" appended to the "page_name.html".

Surely that's just a matter of updating the rewrite rule in the .htaccess. I'll prob be using this mod for a site so I'll look into it and post back.

UNTESTED as I dont have the mod installed...

EDIT: lang -> lan as katon said

It's not lang, it's lan.

Tamlyn, thanks for the effort and time you put into it.

But, it does not seem to work.  Gives a 404 error like the original rewriterule.

I have played around with your rule by learning a little more about mod_rewrite and got it to work when the link contains both the page name and a language selection (test.html&lan=en).  NO MORE 404s!!!

RewriteRule ^(.+)\.html&lan=(.+)$ index.php?page=$1&lan=$2 [QSA]

But if the link only contains the page name (test.html) then it gives a 404.

It seems that the rule is matching only when both variable are present in the requested url.  Maybe the rule needs to be split in 2 so that it tests each component individually an matches one, the other, or both and the rewrite then rewrites only the parts that match instead of none?

Also,

heh, i haven't put any effort or time into it! I think you emant to thank katon & tsw. Anyway this rewriterule should work better:

OK...IT WORKS!

RewriteRule ^(.+)\.html(&lan=.+)?$ index.php?page=$1$2 [QSA]

But just before you gave me the elegant solution, I came up with a working ugly solution also... splitting into 2 rules.

RewriteRule ^(.+)\.html&lan=(.+)$ index.php?page=$1&lan=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.html$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA]

Your rule is better and I will use it instead.

Now I notice another issue.  The links in the menu are friendly "http://www.domain.tld/test.html&lan=en", but the links for the flags to switch language are in the non-friendly format "http://www.domain.tld/index.php?page=test&lan=es".

TSW,

Sorry I didn't give you thanks for the original rewriterule that got the ball rolling.  My bad.

(1) Mod_Rewrite is now working as it should and it looks to me that the issue I mentioned in my previous post...

Now I notice another issue.  The links in the menu are friendly "http://www.domain.tld/test.html&lan=en", but the links for the flags to switch language are in the non-friendly format "http://www.domain.tld/index.php?page=test&lan=es".

is not a mod_rewrite problem but a multilang design decision.  Katon, please correct me if I'm wrong.

(2) Also, fixing (1) above would be good but my ideal look for the URL would be in the format:
http://www.domain.tld/en/page.html
http://www.domain.tld/es/page.html
insead of:
Instead of the current"
http://www.domain.tld/page.html?lan=en
http://www.domain.tld/page.html?lan=es

I'm going to look at the code to see if i can figure it out.  Thanks everyone for your time.

Katon, is it as simply editing "modules/MenuManager/MenuManager.module.php" and finding the line that reads:
$onenode->url = $content->GetURL() . "&lan=$lan";

and changing it to:
$onenode->url = "$lan/" . $content->GetURL();

And then changing the mod_rewrite rules to look for the new format of URL?

Are there other php scripts or other areas that need to change other than MenuManager.module.php?

For those that are interested in the format:
http://www.domain.tld/2LeterLanguageCode/page.html
The the following is working for me:

(1) Modify rewriterule in .htaccess to:
RewriteRule ^(.+)/(.+)\.html$ index.php?page=$2&lan=$1 [QSA]

(2) Modify "function GetURL" in "lib/classes/class.content.inc.php" by adding:
        global $lan;
Before the line that reads:
        global $gCms;

(3) Modify "function GetURL" in "lib/classes/class.content.inc.php" by changing:
            $url = $config["root_url"]."/".$alias.
to
            $url = $config["root_url"]."/".$lan."/".$alias

(4) Modify "" in "modules/MenuManager/MenuManager.module.php" by changing:
            $onenode->url = $content->GetURL() . "&lan=$lan";
to
            $onenode->url = $content->GetURL();

Now the Menu system creates the link format that I like and the mod_rewrite interprets it correctly.

The only issue remaining is the URLS that the flags hyperlink to.  I need to find the script that controls them and modify it.

Please try 0.12.2 multilingual beta 1.  I didn't have a chance to test it it on multiple systems, so I need your help with this guys.