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Bilingual Website - but where do I include the switch on the website??
29 May 2008 at 12:30pm Last edited: 29 May 2008 12:32pm
Hi all,
I am trying to install a website which works with two languages.
The translation in the admin area works fine. My basic language is German, the translation will be in English. I translated the home page for testing it.
Well, maybe I miss something... I published both pages. But how can I switch on the website from one language to the other? I'd like to let the user choose the language.Thanks for any tipp!
Regarding to this another question: How will search engines handle this two language pages? Will every page have its own URL, like pagetitle-german/ and pagetitle-english/ or how will that work?
Thanks again!
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Re: Bilingual Website - but where do I include the switch on the website??
29 May 2008 at 7:43pm
Well, it's really easy to switch languages... just append ?lang=en (for English) at the end of the url...
It could be a link in your template that looks like
<a href="$URLSegment?lang=en">English version</a>
If you want to deal with locales as well, I recommend you to read this post :
http://www.silverstripe.com/site-builders-forum/flat/78360
I'm not quite sure about the search engine thing... you can set a specific page name for each language, although I'm not sure it's necessary from a seo perspective. You can have page-xx as a page name, then your link to switch language will look like...
<a href="$URLSegment-en?lang=en">English version</a>
I haven't tried but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
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