Intergration with PHPtemplate engine

No, i18n is compatible with PHPTemplate. I'm successfully running both release version 4.5.2 of Drupal and release 4.5.0 of PHPTemplate, along with release version 4.5.0 of the i18n module. No CVS version or hacks required, I just followed the instructions. :) (Note, you may find some useful patches in the CVS though! I did for i18n.)

I think the issue I'm addressing would be more of an issue with PHPTemplate, how it doesn't handle primary links in the same manner as the standard Drupal theme engine (xtemplate?) does. I'm pretty sure that's the case, however if anyone would know a way that I could hack either PHPtemplate or i18n to display the node title dynamically, instead of the static name used now, in primary and secondary links?

Need clarification? Just ask.

Thanks,

Jonathan

I found this resolved issue, http://drupal.org/node/15267. The use of i18n variables for theme settings doesn't seem to work with the PHPtemplate engine, because it handles the creation of primary and secondary links in a different manner then xtemplate. I'm looking for similar results, but I don't know what would be the easiest way to accomplish this with PHPtemplate.

gjost suggested this method, when using PHPtemplate, but this bypasses the theme settings completely, defeating the purpose of having a theme configuration option for links.

Thanks,

Jonathan

Okay, I managed to figure out how to do it. I don't know if this is the most efficient way to do it, but it works much better then the proposed solutions above.

PHPtemplate stores links in the 'phptemplate_primary_links', 'phptemplate_primary_links_more', 'phptemplate_secondary_links' and 'phptemplate_secondary_links_more' variables. An easy way to maintain the use of the theme settings interface while having a different set of links for your different languages is to use the i18n variables array in your conf.php file, which makes i18n create a set of those variables for each language.

Incase anyone reading is not familiar with the variable array, simply add something similar to your conf.php file, in the includes/ directory:

$i18n_variables = array(
	// Previous variables you set for i18n would go here...
	...
	// PHPtemplate links array
	'phptemplate_primary_links',
	'phptemplate_primary_links_more',
	'phptemplate_secondary_links',
	'phptemplate_secondary_links_more',
);

I hope someone finds this helpful.

Enjoy,

Jonathan

Fixed title for accurate search results and change status to 'by design', incase anyone looking through the feature requests wants to do something similar.

Jonathan