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

[Dan Romanchik]

I'm not really familiar with the structure of  PhpNuke or PostNuke, but I
think you'd have to do a fair bit of hacking on phpWebSite to accomplish
this. Basically, you're going to have to have duplicate database tables for
things like the announcements and links, and have the CMS determine which
one to use (presumably all users will have to log in or accept the default
language).

Actually, doing the coding might not be so difficult, but figuring out where
to make the changes will be. I don't think there's a lot of detailed
documentation on how the innards of phpWebSite works.

Dan
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicole Parrot" <nicole at parrot.ca>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 8:13 AM
Subject: Bilingual site (was Re: [thelist] PhpNuke, Postnuke, phpwebsite,
which one?)


> 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.
>
>
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