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[madmage]

A small demo you can find in http://www.mindreamz.net/modx091/ but I would like the MODx-gurus to look at my code to know if I used the right functions in the right places (going into the core code to find out which function to use is not a great thing, maybe sometimes I used a deprecated function or something like this)

The goal was to provide a multi-language-content site, in which the user can choose a preferred language and browse the site reading pages in that language if they are available, and been redirected to a "default language page" if not.

My solution is the following:
1) there is a $_SESSION variable that stores the preferred language choice of the user;
2) I modified the *_site_content table adding two fields:
 - contentLang, that stores something like "en", "it", "fr", ...
 - refId, the id of the page in the default language which this one is a translation
3) I added a snippet to show the language flags for the user choice
4) I added a plug-in that redirects to the right-language page
5) I modified the DropMenu to show only the chosen language entries
6) I modified the manager in these ways:
 - in the document tree, each page has next to it its current translations (you can click on them and go to the translation, without the need to have a different tree for each language and to have not every page translated)
 - while vieweing a document, you can also see in which language is the content and you have a button that duplicates the page to begin to translate it
 - in the settings page you have to write which languages your site is in and the default language

The only thing that is to be implemented is a plug-in that rebuilds the tree accordingly after the insertion of a new translation (it is needed and you can easily figure out why)

Now, then, how can I show my solution? I can give to someone the access to my manager, in order to see my modifies. Or... what else?

[Djamoer]

That's so cool. I saw it already, and it's nice!

Hope I can have the right to access the demo version of it, if you wouldn;t mind. FYI, I'm not a core developer for MODx and I'm not a PHP or programmer guru, hope it doesn't bother you.

Great job in implementing that, that looks awesome. Hope it can be implemented later as the core system, by the time all the core developer agree to that, and willing to make an aoverhaul backend for MODx.

Btw madmage, you know the backend already, so do you think its going to be hard in implementing sub site capability of MODx?

Sincerely,

[madmage]

Isn't it already implemented? I read a message in which someone develop a snippet to do this... Am I missing something?

[Djamoer]

yeah, it's being implemented, but it won't work the way you want it with alias path. Let's assume that you have a folders for subsites, and each folder will have its own alias, lets call it subsite1, subsite2, and etc. Then for each subsite will have this alias being appended as alias. So the address will look like this, http://www.domain.com/subsite1/home.htm.

I just want the ability to remove the subsite1 path for each domain, without the need to use it. Do you have any thought of this?

Thanks

[davidm]

I very much like the underlying logic, if this can be made into a snippet we could have real multilingual content for MODx which would be yet another strong point for us

Very nice, can't wait to have our coding team look into this and help you turn this into a proof of concept solution for multi-lingual content... thanks !

[madmage]

mod_rewrite?

RewriteRule ^([^\/]*)\/(.*)$ http://www.yourwebsite.com/$2 [L]

or I haven't understood your problem?

[madmage]

I very much like the underlying logic, if this can be made into a snippet we could have real multilingual content for MODx which would be yet another strong point for us

Very nice, can't wait to have our coding team look into this and help you turn this into a proof of concept solution for multi-lingual content... thanks !

I hope to succeed in having a contact with some core coder... it seems hard in these days...

[madmage]

mod_rewrite?

RewriteRule ^([^\/])*\/(.*)$ http://www.yourwebsite.com/$2 [L]

or I haven't understood your problem?

this is better (remember that it have to be in the modx installation root directory):

RewriteRule ^[^\/]*\/(.*)$ /$1 [L]

[davidm]

I hope to succeed in having a contact with some core coder... it seems hard in these days...

Yeah well it's only normal given the holidays. I've no doubt they'll get in touch pretty soon, few ideas are lost around here, that's one of the strength of this community

Thanks for the login/pass for the demo : VERY NICE ! The way you integrated this into the backend is simply great and I wish to see it as one of the bundled plugin. Plus I wouldn't mind having this kind of marketing ammo Few CMS have this implemented, often it's a workaround or a hack to implement multilanguage.

Really impressive work !

[xwisdom]

I hope to succeed in having a contact with some core coder... it seems hard in these days...

Well it's the holiday season so you know...

Very nice work on the multi-language content implementation

We will certainly look into what you have done and see how it can be added to the new core.

PS. where possible it 's best to use plugins to handle your changes. There are events that you can use to overwrite most of the core.

Many thanks and happy holidays!

 

[madmage]

Well it's the holiday season so you know...

Yeah, I know... Just joking... ;-)

Very nice work on the multi-language content implementation

We will certainly look into what you have done and see how it can be added to the new core.

PS. where possible it 's best to use plugins to handle your changes. There are events that you can use to overwrite most of the core.

This is the reason for my looking for core coders... and questions about plug-in events

Many thanks and happy holidays!

Yeah, to you too...

[rthrash]

I've poked through it a bit and created a test page in the repository. Looks like a really great start!

The biggest thing that immediately popped out was how it handles the menus... that's going to take some thought... but regardless, quite impressive. Do you have a full changelog/modification procedure that you went through in order to get this implmented?

[Djamoer]

It's great to have someone who able to contribute something on the core code.

Hope this can be the start of MODx to support multi lingual content by default. Hopefully this can be added into the new release or provided as a patch to the current release.

Thanks for the reat work you've done there, especially by hacking into the core code, but still keeping it in minimum changes, and make it integrated with MODx manager so well.

Sincerely,

[madmage]

I've poked through it a bit and created a test page in the repository. Looks like a really great start!

The biggest thing that immediately popped out was how it handles the menus... that's going to take some thought...

what do you mean for "menus"? which menus?

but regardless, quite impressive. Do you have a full changelog/modification procedure that you went through in order to get this implmented?

Yes, of course! :-D

2 field to be added to site_content table
1 snippet to be added
1 plug-in to be added
1 snippet to be modified (DropMenu)
about 80 lines to be added in four manager php files

it's all tagged in my code, so I can easily find them

I have still to implement the tree rebuild plug-in (necessary when adding or deleting a translation that has children); and use $_lang[] for messages/captions in manager

for the first topic: which plug-in event do I have to use (OnDocFormSave and OnDocFormDelete are the right choices? can I access the $modx->documentObject['id'] in those events?)

for the second: do I have to put translations my caption/messages in manager/includes/lang ? at the end?

note: ah, well, there is an error in the italian.php.inc file, line 730: salvataggiog. -> salvataggio. (without the last "g")... and some other translation errors... who do I have to contact?

[davidm]

what do you mean for "menus"? which menus?

I think Ryan was talking about the menu tree, and you already are working on it, it seems :

I have still to implement the tree rebuild plug-in (necessary when adding or deleting a translation that has children); and use $_lang[] for messages/captions in manager

Anyway, like wendy I must say this is a much expected feature that we will all be glad to have