Available languages for objects in 3.8

Sunday 07 May 2006 11:58:11 pm

From the specs:
http://ez.no/community/developer/specs/improved_multi_language_in_ez_publish_rev_2

Available languages

Problem: There is currently no record of what languages are available on an object, unless one accesses the attributes.

To make it easier to figure out which languages are available on an object a new field is added which stores the languages which were last published.

Question is:
How is this new field accessed?

Monday 08 May 2006 12:55:42 am

Good to know. Is this new for 3.8?
This attribute is not mentioned in the documentation for 3.7:
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_7/reference/objects/ezcontentobject

But then I still need to loop through this array of contentlanguage objects to find out if it contains the language I'm interested in.

I would like to do:

{if $node.object.languages|contains('deu')}
  {* provide link to german version of this page *}
{/if}

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:)

Monday 08 May 2006 4:32:59 am

Thanks, will try this.
I never knew of the /(language)/locale parameter. Is this also new, or just never documented?

Monday 08 May 2006 6:03:38 am

You can have an extra INI setting array with locales as key and the url for the localised site access as values.

Sample from the wiki site design I've been working on:

{def $translations=$object.languages
     $translations_count=$translations|count
     $otherLanguages=array()
     $localSiteURLList=ezini('RegionalSettings','SiteURLList','wiki.ini')}

{foreach $translations as $translation}
    {if $translation.locale|ne($object.current_language)}
        {set $otherLanguages=$otherLanguages|append($translation)}
    {/if}
{/foreach}

{if $otherLanguages|count|gt(0)}
<div class="menubox">
    <div class="menubox-title">{'Other languages'|i18n('design/wiki/pagelayout')}</div>
     <div class="menubox-content">
        <ul class="languages">
        {foreach $otherLanguages as $translation}
        {def $localSiteURL=concat($object.main_node.url_alias, '/(language)/', $translation.locale )|ezurl('no')}
        {if is_set($localSiteURLList[$translation.locale])}
        {set $localSiteURL=concat( $localSiteURLList[$translation.locale],$object.main_node.url_alias)}
        {/if}
        <li>
        {* Language name. *}
        <img src="{$translation.locale|flag_icon}" alt="{$translation.locale}" />&nbsp;
        <a href="{$localSiteURL}" title="{'View translation.'|i18n( 'design/wiki/pagelayout' )}">{$translation.locale_object.language_name|wash}</a>
        </li>
        {undef $localSiteURL}
        {/foreach}
        </ul>
        </div>
</div>
{/if}
{undef $translations $translations_count $otherLanguages $localSiteURLList}

From wiki.ini:

[RegionalSettings]
SiteURLList[eng-GB]=http://example.com/en/
SiteURLList[dut-NL]=http://example.com/nl/

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Monday 08 May 2006 7:22:59 am

Thanks for mentioning the issue with the view parameters. I think it won't be that hard to get them in the link too (the google navigator does it).

I agree with you that this should be handled by an internal system if possible, but I don't immediately see any nice way it could be done.

A site could have different site accesses with the same locale, but just another view on the data (admin - user site, but I can think of other examples too, like a custom interface meant for editors). How would you distinguish between those to get the right localised site?

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Monday 08 May 2006 10:24:33 am

Hi all,

Got an issue with the i18n operator. So far, it takes the locale as defined by the siteaccess. However and as mentionned, it can be quite problematic, for instance using /(language)/xxx

In that case, I would like to set the locale to the xxx locale set by the url.

Any idea how to do that ?

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Monday 08 May 2006 2:22:05 pm

to Xavier Dutoit:
BTW: in case you want to know, the trick I found to overwrite the default language is to do something like this in index.php:

$GLOBALS["eZLocaleStringDefault"]='chi-CN';

in order for this to work, you have to insert that line into some where before this line:
$check = eZHandlePreChecks( $siteBasics, $uri );

in index.php, otherwise your UI will not be translated to the language you specified

no public API is available, so this is the only way I can come up with atm

this is why I think eZ should have the language in the url

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Tuesday 09 May 2006 3:00:28 am

Liu wrote:
"I do not want separate siteaccess for different languages, as besides two ini settings are different, all the remaining are the same"

You can put all common settings in an extension, and in each siteaccess per language you only specify the regional settings (locale etc) and the extension that is common for all languages.

Like this:
/settings/siteaccess/english/site.ini.append.php:

[RegionalSettings]
Locale=eng-GB
etc.

[ExtensionSettings]
ActiveAccessExtensions[]=my_site

/settings/siteaccess/chinese/site.ini.append.php:

[RegionalSettings]
Locale=chi-CN
etc.

[ExtensionSettings]
ActiveAccessExtensions[]=my_site

Then in /extension/my_site/settings you put all the ini.append.php files which are common to all language versions of your site.

You don't have to mess with kernel files at all!

Tuesday 09 May 2006 7:55:47 am

I tried $GLOBALS["eZLocaleStringDefault"]='xxx'; in index.php but it does not work.

I wanted to use this method to change my current language.
Doing so, I want the content to be in the selected language and also the
other links of my page (related links, menu, etc ...) to be proposed in
the selected language if available.

I understand that I can do it with something like that :

$languages = array( 'nor-NO', 'eng-GB' );
eZContentLanguage::setPrioritizedLanguages( $languages );

this is sample code from ezpublish-3.8.0/doc/features/3.8/multi-language_features.txt

but when I try it, I have the following fatal error :
Undefined class name ezcontentlanguage

Can somebody help me to use this fonction setPrioritizedLanguages to set the prioritized languages ?

Many thanks

Thursday 11 May 2006 2:34:28 am

I had exactly the same question when I started with eZ Publish in January. This was my first post on the forum:
http://ez.no/community/forum/setup_design/how_to_create_multiple_multilingual_sites_in_one_install

The question was never answered. I also posted it here:
http://ez.no/community/forum/install_configuration/how_to_create_multiple_multilingual_sites_in_one_install
Also not a single reply.

I resolved it by using different names for the same language in the different sites, like eng/english, deu/deutsch etc. and use uri-based site access. Not ideal, but it works. You can prevent access from one site to another by using .htaccess files in each site access' root directory.

I hoped that 3.8 with it's 'improved multilanguage support' would have improved on this, but I don't think it did.

Maybe we should continue this discussion in the above thread, because it's kind of off-topic.