AW: [opencms-dev] Several Languages - Howto

Fri Oct 21 12:26:49 CEST 2005

Hi Roman,

I have just one structure on my site, no siblings at all for language matters.
I use xmlcontent only (no xmlpage etc.).

Ähm, how the navigation is generated is a decision made by the 
programmer/developer.
You can use properties for that, but you can use the value of xmlcontent 
fields too.

It's a question what should be handled by properties and what by fields.

Implement an I_CmsLocaleHandler which fits your needs and thats it.

So my implementation makes the locale decision based on the top level domain.
And has some fallbacks if a specific domian/locale mapping is not defined, or 
parameter is present in the url.
Right now it is not properties (java properties) based, but new domain/laguage 
mappings could be easily added to the source.

So, at the top of your JSP you retrieve the locale:
Locale locale = YourLocaleHandler.getLocale(cms, request, currentRessource);

And use it to retrieve locale specific content on your page or make decisions 
whatever.

Kind regards, Bernd

On Friday, 21. October 2005 12:49, Roman Uhlig | Knuepfer Verlag wrote:
> Hi Bernd,
>
> Well, that was my initial question inside the starting post of this thread:
> How do I handle a multi-language site with OpenCms?
>
> As far as I got till now there is only the solution involving different
> folders for every language, cause I need of course a language specific
> navigation too. This is generated from folder/file properties, which is
> only language specific if I create them for every language.
>
> Actually, we just need basic multi-language features, nothing special:
> - different independent language content
> - all languages share the same site structure and content objects
> - possibility to switch the language while visiting the site
> - possibility to handle stuff dynamically based on the chosen language,
> e.g. links or navigation
> - possibility to edit language specific content based on user accounts
>
> These are basic multi-language site requirements. But we couldnt figure out
> yet how to do this with OpenCms, the language demo inside the documentation
> doesn't answer this. Till now, the question still seems to be open and we
> would like to solve or at least answer it for ourselves, because it's the
> only issue we have with OpenCms. Everything else is working fine. But if
> there is no solution to set up a multi-language site without copying or
> linking the whole structure for every language, we have to look further
> during our CMS evaluation.
>
> Any help on this is still very appreciated, cause we feel comfortable with
> OpenCms and it would be sad to drop it because of issues regarding the
> handling of several languages, which has never been a problem with other
> CMS we used until now.
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Roman Uhlig
>
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> [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] Im Auftrag von Bernd Wolfsegger
> Gesendet: Freitag, 21. Oktober 2005 11:33
> An: The OpenCms mailing list
> Betreff: Re: [opencms-dev] Several Languages - Howto
>
> Hi,
>
> for what purpose do you exactly need multiple language specific folders
> anyway?
>
> Since the language dependend content can be accessed in one ressource,
> because it incorporates all languages. So why split it again and having a
> lot of problems?
>
> Kind regadrs, Bernd
>
> On Friday, 21. October 2005 11:59, Uhlig, Roman wrote:
> > Thank you Corsin for your recommendation, we will try that.
> > But I see no solution to the problem Matthias and Bernd are discussing
> > in this thread.
> >
> > One of our largest customer portals serves 6 languages. If something
> > changes or new structure has to be added, a chief editor would have to
> > create the new files in one language and then create the siblings for
> > all other languages manually? That sounds weird actually.
> >
> > As for the link management mentioned by Bernd, I guess there is a way
> > to dynamically parse links to the appropriate language based on the
> > language the visitor has selected? In our current "to-replace" CMS no
> > internal link is static, they are all generated dynamically based on
> > several properties (like language). This should be possible inside
> > OpenCms too, I think.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Roman Uhlig
> >
> >
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