Hi,
I'm working on my first multilingual site with SS and I'm having troubles with the translatable class!
I was trying to do everything according to http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=multilingualcontent but could not get anything working at all!

First I tried putting

Translatable::set_default_locale(<locale>);

in my _config.php, but this function doesnt seem to exist in my Ss version in the Translatable class!

Furthermore if i try

Object::add_extension('Page', 'Translatable');

in _config.php or

	static $extensions = array(
    "Translatable"
  );

in Page.php the result is always resulting in

[Warning] Missing argument 1 for Translatable::__construct()

I think I have to pass somehow the translatable fields to the decorator, but don't know how to do that!

All in all i would just need a quick version to make all content translatable, and the site will feature at least 4 languages, so work arounds like creating seperate fields for languages doesnt really work, and translateable as shown in the tutorial would be perfect for me, but no idea how to get that working, any fast help is really appreciated! thanks!

I've funnily enough been working through the exact same problem today; I've managed to enable the module using:

Translatable::enable();

And then doing a dev/build, however this still doesn't work correctly. I get an error message when trying to create a new translation:

Error: Couldn't run query: SELECT `SiteTree`.*, `SiteTree_lang`.*, `SiteTree_lang`.*, `GhostPage`.*, `ErrorPage`.*, `RedirectorPage`.*, `VirtualPage`.*, `UserDefinedForm`.*, `SiteTree_lang`.OriginalLangID, if(`SiteTree_lang`.ClassName,`SiteTree_lang`.ClassName,'SiteTree') AS RecordClassName, `SiteTree_lang`.OriginalLangID AS ID, `SiteTree_lang_lang`.OriginalLangID AS ID FROM INNER JOIN `SiteTree_lang` ON `SiteTree_lang`.OriginalLangID = `SiteTree_lang`.OriginalLangID INNER JOIN `SiteTree` ON `SiteTree_lang`.OriginalLangID = `SiteTree`.ID LEFT JOIN `GhostPage` ON `GhostPage`.ID = `SiteTree_lang`.OriginalLangID LEFT JOIN `ErrorPage` ON `ErrorPage`.ID = `SiteTree_lang`.OriginalLangID LEFT JOIN `RedirectorPage` ON `RedirectorPage`.ID = `SiteTree_lang`.OriginalLangID LEFT JOIN `VirtualPage` ON `VirtualPage`.ID = `SiteTree_lang`.OriginalLangID LEFT JOIN `UserDefinedForm` ON `UserDefinedForm`.ID = `SiteTree_lang`.OriginalLangID WHERE (`SiteTree`.`ParentID` = 0 AND `SiteTree_lang`.OriginalLangID != 0) AND (`SiteTree_lang`.Lang = 'de') AND (`SiteTree_lang`.Lang = 'de') ORDER BY Sort You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'INNER JOIN `SiteTree_lang` ON `SiteTree_lang`.OriginalLangID = `SiteTree_lang`.O' at line 1

Anyway, any further ideas anyone? From as far as I can see the fix is to use the SVN trunk; is it safe to use yet?

You guys might have noticed that translatable does not work currently, with 2.3.1 and I think also 2.3.0, it's mentioned quite often here.

However that should not stop you from making multilanguage sites even with 2.3.1, see recipes:multilingual_content and Multilingual Content - alternative to 'translatable'.

As I mentioned above it's not a nice aternative for me to make seperate fields for seperate languages since the site will feature 4+ languages and probably grow! But you think there's no chance of getting Translatable work with 2.3.1?

Is there anybody out there who managed to get Translatable working with 2.3.1 and can post his code?

It definately doesn't work with 2.3.1. I'm currently trying out 2.3.2beta1 which you can check out via svn. So far no luck tho... when I change the locale using

http://<mysite>/mypage/?locale=de_DE

I just get an error: The requested page couldn't be found.

Okay, so now I see each page has a unique url. So If I have an english version of home at http://mysite.com/home/ to get to the japanese version, I have to visit http://mysite.com/home-ja-JP/?locale=ja_JP

BUT the locale is not persisted.

If I then try to visit the about page by clicking a link in the navigation it goes to http://mysite.com/about-ja-JP/ and I get the error 'The requested page couldn't be found.'

I have to explicitly visit http://mysite.com/about-ja-JP/?locale=ja_JP.

Does anyone know how to make the locale persistant, so that once the user visits a Japanese page, the site STAYS in Japanese until they choose to switch back to English?

Cheers,

Barry.

Known bug, please follow http://open.silverstripe.com/ticket/4018

For more current bugs in beta1, see http://open.silverstripe.com/query?status=replyneeded&status=new&status=inprogress&status=reviewed&group=status&milestone=2.3.2