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i18n multilingual blog
5 January 2009 at 2:16pm Last edited: 5 January 2009 2:16pm
Hi,
I installed the blog 0.2.0 RC1. According to the change log the blog is now translatable. I can see that the blog folder contains a "lang" directory with language files for template _t variables. But how can I translate the content for a multilingual site? The blog holder page type has a "Translations" tab in the CMS, but blog entries don't.
Cheers!
Anatol -
Re: i18n multilingual blog
5 January 2009 at 3:16pm Last edited: 5 January 2009 3:33pm
I'm a bit further but eventually I only get an Ajax error.
I could add the "translatable" tab in the CMS to the blog entry page type. In the BlogEntry class (/blog/code/BlogEntry.php) I added the Translatable extension (see below in red)
static $extensions = array(
'Hierarchy',
'TrackBackDecorator',
"Versioned('Stage', 'Live')",
"Translatable('Content')"
);The "Translations" tab is now visible for blog entries. It should do the trick but when rebuild the database with /db/build/?flush=1 and I reload the CMS I cannot add any more translatable pages because of the following Ajax error:
Error in Ajax evaluator on line 973: missing ; before statement There has been an error
+++ update +++
The Ajax error happens because I made a custom field 'ContentMore' translatable. If I just make the standard fields translatable (e.g. 'Content') as shown above it works. There is still a problem with the BlogHolder. It does only show blog entries in the default language. If I switch to the 'secondary' language it does not find any blog entries, even though blog entries exist as children under the blog holder.I think I am close but not there yet. Any ideas are highly appreciated.
Cheers!
Anatol -
Re: i18n multilingual blog
18 March 2009 at 4:38am Last edited: 31 March 2009 3:45am
The official way to enable translation is by adding the following to mysite/_config.php:
i18n::enable();
i18n::set_default_lang('nl_NL');But use your language instead of 'nl_NL'. Then I think you need to 'translate' the root entry of the blog.
Everything is described here: http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=i18n&s=set%
[edit] Actually the official news is that Translatable is broken in Silverstripe 2.3.0-2.3.1
Also see for controls translation: http://silverstripe.org/blog-module-forum/show/257317?start=0#post257386 -
Re: i18n multilingual blog
1 May 2009 at 2:40pm
Check out the recipe at Alternative multilingual recipe - works for me on a SS 2.3.1 site, also for the blog, even the ecommerce module. You just have to add the fields you want following the recipe. I did so even for title and meta tags.
More info about it in the forum discussion here Multilingual Content - alternative to 'translatable' .
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Re: i18n multilingual blog
3 May 2009 at 9:32pm Last edited: 3 May 2009 9:33pm
I just remembered that the Alternative multilingual recipe required some additional code (for me at least) to allow me also to have multilingual blog entries.
For reasons which I didn't take the time to debug and find out the CMS does not show the content fields for the other language(s) when the page is a blogentry. But don't worry, here's a workaround:In /blog/code/BlogEntry.php, in the function getCMSFields(), which is currently at line 66, add the following lines at line 78:
$fields->removeFieldFromTab("Root.Content.Deutsch","Content_de");
$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Content.Deutsch', new TextareaField('Content_de', "De-Content"));Of course modify the Root.Content.Deutsch to whatever language(s) you're using.
Here's the complete getCMSFields() function in /blog/code/BlogEntry.php as I'm using it here for English blog/news cleaning Thailand's waste water and here for the same BlogEntry in German Thailand's Haushalts-Abwasser reinigen, you can see at the comment in the code where the patch needs to get inserted.
function getCMSFields() {
Requirements::javascript('blog/javascript/bbcodehelp.js');
Requirements::themedCSS('bbcodehelp');$firstName = Member::currentUser() ? Member::currentUser()->FirstName : '';
$codeparser = new BBCodeParser();$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
if(!self::$allow_wysiwyg_editing) {
$fields->removeFieldFromTab("Root.Content.Main","Content");
$fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Main", new TextareaField("Content", _t("BlogEntry.CN", "Content"), 20));
/**
* lines below added by Kalileo 2009-05-03 to make the Content fields visible
* in the other language tabs.
* For whatever reason they must NOT be named "Content", otherwise it freezes
* didn't take the time to debug it, the "other name" workaround is OK for me
*/
$fields->removeFieldFromTab("Root.Content.Deutsch","Content_de");
$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Content.Deutsch', new TextareaField('Content_de', "De-Content"));
$fields->removeFieldFromTab("Root.Content.Thai","Content_th");
$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Content.Thai', new TextareaField('Content_th', "Th-Content"));
/** Addon by Kalileo - END */
}$fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Main", new PopupDateTimeField("Date", _t("BlogEntry.DT", "Date")),"Content");
$fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Main", new TextField("Author", _t("BlogEntry.AU", "Author"), $firstName),"Content");if(!self::$allow_wysiwyg_editing) {
$fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Main", new LiteralField("BBCodeHelper", "<div id='BBCode' class='field'>" .
"<a id=\"BBCodeHint\" target='new'>" . _t("BlogEntry.BBH", "BBCode help") . "</a>" .
"<div id='BBTagsHolder' style='display:none;'>".$codeparser->useable_tagsHTML()."</div></div>"));
}$fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Main", new TextField("Tags", _t("BlogEntry.TS", "Tags (comma sep.)")),"Content");
return $fields;
}This is not my preferred solution, because an update of the blog module will overwrite it, but for now it works
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