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?

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?

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.