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

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

Did you ever figure this out?

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

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' .

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 :)