[opencms-dev] Several Languages - Howto

[Corsin Camichel]

Hi Roman

I can tell you how we did it:

Our main language is german. So we first create a directory /de/ with
the locale property de. If this page is done, with all the textes and
so on, I created a sibling of the /de/ folder with "Copy no resource,
just create siblings of all resources in the folder" to /en/ and
adjusted the the locale property. If the user need to change a text,
it does not matter if he/she is in /de/ or /en/ or /foo/ as long as he
changes the language in the editor with the dropdown.

You create with this for each lang. an own directory, but the text is "shared".

Regards
Corsin

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Corsin Camichel
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On 10/20/05, Uhlig, Roman <roman.uhlig at knve.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So far everything looks fine, and we are enjoying working with OpenCms.
> Except one major question we are not able to answer as OpenCms
> "newbies": Is there an easy way to handle a site with several languages
> (with several, I mean about 5-6)? As far as we have figured it out, one
> has to do the following things when adding a new language:
>
> - registering the language in opencms-system.xml
> - create a folder for that language and setting it's locale property
> - copy over the folder structure from an existing language
> - create siblings of all files of the existing "main language"
>
> This is quite some work to do for several languages and looks somehow
> wrong. I don't think this is necessary and would like to ask you, if
> there is an easy way to do this.
> The language specific stuff is already there in the control code of
> every file, so why would I need siblings anyway regarding multi-language
> behaviour? Wouldn't it be great to just set the locale property of the
> root folder and derive it to the whole tree of the site?
>
> Any hints are very appreciated.
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Roman Uhlig <mailto:roman.uhlig at knve.de>
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