Bilingual site (was Re: [thelist] PhpNuke, Postnuke, phpwebsite, which one?)

[Nicole Parrot]

Thanks Alan.

The navigation and content should always be displayed in one language, not
both. Each user will choose his preferred language. The trick here is that
it will also impact content. All the CMS have translated navigation items,
but none (AFAIK) will handle multiple language content.  Each news item will
be entered twice (exact detail to be determined yet, whatever is easiest),
but only the entry that is in the appropriate language will be displayed. If
the user switches to the other language, then the other entry should be
displayed.

Most of our visitors have some good knowledge of the other language (and we
know this for a fact, because we know the visitors personally ;-)
Switching from one language to another on the fly is something we expect
will be done often enough....

So right now, my question is mainly which of the three CMSs mentionned has a
structure that is closest to what I'm describing? I'm unfamiliar with all
three of them.

Nicole


> You might be able to achieve this with some slight hacks, but it's
> difficult to tell what hacks are needed without more details. Are the
> two separate languages going to be displayed on the same page at the
> same time? If so, in what areas will they be displayed? (main content
> area? news? left/right blocks?)
>
> Alan
>
> :: They all have that, but one language at a time, from what I
> :: can see.  I need
> :: to run two languages concurrently.