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bi-lingual options with textpattern
what are they.
i have a few personal sites id like to make bi-lingual.
Any good examples, plugins or articles out there for me to research?
I did a site like this before and i had the help of a txp dev.
We used a varialble to determine what language should be displayed, there were two.
like this:
<txp:if_individual_article>
<txp:article_image />
<txp:else />
<txp:chs_if_urlvar var=“language” value=“irish”>
<txp:article_custom id=“105” form=“single” />
<txp:else />
<txp:article_custom id=“45” form=“single” />
</txp:chs_if_urlvar>
</txp:if_individual_article>
its a bad hen that wont scratch itself.
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#2 2008-07-19 19:34:55
- lee
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Re: bi-lingual options with textpattern
You need: http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?id=20692
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Re: bi-lingual options with textpattern
hi kvnmcwebn,
I’ve done an approach to a bilingual site without using MLP (because I couldn’t install it ‘cos the server had MySQL < 4.1). The approach implied:- languages were TxP sections (/en/, /es/)
- and the articles were the sections
- and a custom field to put the ID of the corresponding rendition of an article in another language.
- the site is pretty static and simple
- so, section navigation (remember, sections = txp articles) was manually done.
The lang selector used asy_wondertag plug-in to do the magic of linking to the corresponding article in another language. Like this:
<ul id="langSelector">
<txp:if_article_list>
<li id="englishLang"><a href="/en/">English</a></li>
<li id="spanishLang"><a href="/es/">Español</a></li>
</txp:if_article_list>
<txp:if_individual_article>
<txp:if_section name="en">
<li id="englishLang" class="active"><txp:permlink>English</txp:permlink></li>
<li id="spanishLang"> <txp:asy_wondertag><txp:permlink id="<txp:custom_field name="spanish" />">Español</txp:permlink></txp:asy_wondertag></li>
</txp:if_section>
<txp:if_section name="es">
<li id="englishLang"><txp:asy_wondertag><txp:permlink id="<txp:custom_field name="english" />">English</txp:permlink></txp:asy_wondertag></li>
<li id="spanishLang" class="active"><txp:permlink>Español</txp:permlink></li>
</txp:if_section>
</txp:if_individual_article>
</ul>So, if the site you are planning is very very simple, this is another possibility to make it bi-lingual.
But, in any case, if you can go with the MLP, you won’t regret.
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Re: bi-lingual options with textpattern
Thanks manaqui,
actually my host only has mySql 4.1.11 as well…..ahh..
its a bad hen that wont scratch itself.
photogallery
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Re: bi-lingual options with textpattern
Manaqui
can you give me the url of that site?
-best
kevin
its a bad hen that wont scratch itself.
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