Multilingual site with Drupal 6
claudiu.cristea - October 21, 2007 - 19:10
I cannot understand how to configure a D6 site to be a multilingual site. I tried to translate a node (simple page) in 3 languages and publish them to front page but all the translated nodes are displayed on the front page.
I used this scenario:
- Installed Drupal 6, beta 2
- enabled the locale module
- enabled italian and deutsch languages
- configured languages with Path prefix with language fallback (admin/settings/language/configure)
- enabled multilingual support (Enabled, with translation) for content type page
- creating a "page" node in ENglish and promote it to the front page
- creating translation in ITaliano and DEutsch for this node and promote each translation to front page
- enabled the Language switcher block
After this I fount that any language I select, all 3 translations are displayed on the front page. This is not a normal behavior for a multilingual site. Normally on the front page it must be present only the language related to the selected UI language.
In Drupal 5 I used the localizer module and the things were simple, clear and logical.
Is there any support to configure a multilingual site?
Thanks a lot. Any help is welcomed....
Claudiu
you need contributed modules
You still need contributed modules. Drupal 6 is not a complete multilanguage suite. We are getting there, but for language dependent listings, tweaking the language selection block and so on, you still need contributed modules, like views or the more focused i18n or localizer. Localizer and i18n are expected to be updated for Drupal 6. These modules can be made much simpler as lots of features are now provided by Drupal 6 itself, but there are still missing functionality in the implementation.
Thank you Gabor, Now it make
Thank you Gabor,
Now it make sense... I thought that D6 is a complete (core) multilingual solution. So, we are waiting for the stable D6 and the 6.x versions of i18n or localizer.
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Claudiu Cristea
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