By Reox on

I have to migrate a html website to drupal. This page is available in two languages. how can i do this in drupal? I want to administer only one page, so the optimum shoud be that i have e.g. node1, i can edit it in 2 languages on the same page. is this possible?

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suit4 commented

Hi Reox,

To get two different content fields on one page, you could create a new content type and add another 'body' field and display one of both fields depending on your (custom made) languge switcher

BUT, if I where you, I would stick to existing and marture modules doing this job. there won't be the option to edit all languages on one page (as far as every translated node is a different unique node), but there are many other usefull features to translate pages up to nice translation workflows.

Some reading stuff: http://drupal.org/node/133977
Mutlilang related modules are here: http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/97

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> e.g. node1, i can edit it in 2 languages on the same page. is this possible?

There is a module which will allow you to have multiple languages on one node:
http://drupal.org/project/language_sections

However, although the core language facility with the i18n module uses a separate
node for each language, it would bring many other benefits and is almost as simple
as editing one node.

One of the major benefits is that you can get an overview of which pages
have been translated or edited. Eg. If I edit the english version, the overview
will flag the fact that that I haven't edited the corresponding spanish version.

Plus you'll get the Drupal interface automatically translated.
And be able to translate menus and blocks.

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Reox commented

ok thanks! i tested the i18l module and it works really good for my purpose!