By luigi12 on

I need to setup a multinational organization web site which obvioulsy requires multi-language content (even if the admin interface and the user interface can be in english).

I'd prefer to avoid the "Internationalization" module since it requires core patches.

I read about a suggested approach which reccommended the use of taxonomy and terms to handle the multi-language issue.

Is there anyone who has already successfully dealt with such an issue and with a similar approach? TIA.

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

Even though the "Internationalization" requires core patches I would recommend it over a role your own solution. (You can by the way download the patched files if you do not want to apply the patches yourself).

The reason I recommend it is it makes it straight foward to add content in multiple languages and handles the switching between languages seamlessly.

Pick the languages you want your site in (including which is the default) then add some content. Once the content is added you can now add versions in the other languages. People viewing the page in one language can easily switch to another language.

If you use taxonomy while you could have a vocabulary for languages, it does not provide the association between nodes representing the same content in different languages.

luigi12’s picture

luigi12 commented

i followed the advice to use the i18n module. patched everything required, and finally discovered it is not compatible with the taxonomy_access module (!).

there is a post in the forum where a patch of the patch is available, but things are increasingly becoming messy. in addition, based on the squared patch applied (patch^2) to various modules, it will be difficult, if not impossible, while having a multilingual site up and running upgrade to the the upcoming 4.7 release without running the risk of compromising the multi-lingual support for a live site (or crashing all the site as well).

please, please, please, if this has not already been done, add multilingual support to the core. it seems a rather common feeling among several drupal users and supporters ...

i obviously will be willing to test everything the developers will rush out (i cannot contribute any code because i'm not an hacker).

thank you for all your efforts!

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bobx24 commented

I've just fall in the same trap (i18n and taxonomy access incompatible) and I am interested in trying the "patch of the patch", how messy it can be.
Where is it ? I have done some search and didn't find it.

Thanks,
Robert

luigi12’s picture

luigi12 commented

hello bob, here it is:

http://drupal.org/node/22834

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bobx24 commented

Thanks for the pointer
Robert