Hello,
I am very new to Drupal and Content Management Systems. I have a website now that is folder and directory based and I wish to convert it to Drupal. The first page of my site asks the user which langauge they want to enter in, English or French. Currently for my site there is a Englsih page and a French equivalent page for every page(content) on the site. Currently they click on Englsh to see the Englsih pages and vice vers for French. Can the same concept be used in Drupal ?
I wish to modernize my site and I hope to use Drupal 6 for this. I have Drupal installed and and have created a couple of Englsih pages at it looks real promising. Before I start creating or converting too many englsih pages to the new Drupal site I want to fully understand how I can still prompt users for either Englsh or French. It should be noted I only have one domain name and one Drupal database.
I have looked at some of the translationb modules for Drupal 6 but I am still unclear. It should be noted that I wish to only have two langauages for 'content', French and English. The 'admin' part of Drupal can be Englsih only.
Any suggestions appreciated. Please let me know if you need more information.
Thank you
Neil
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You could create a custom
You could create a custom front page template where you could ask the user for their preferred language. Default could be English and the French pages could go onder the fr/ path.
Really, get into theming and out of the box Drupal can do the multilingual part.
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Joep
CompuBase, Drupal, websites and webdesign
You sure can do that in
You sure can do that in Drupal. One of my Drupal 6 sites has English and Thai. It works perfect in Drupal. In my case, I use Internationalization module (http://drupal.org/project/i18n).
You need to config several things according to the handbook and don't forget:
* Locale - select language you want
* Content Type - Multilingual support: enable
After the configuration and setting, I started creating all English pages. Then I add each Thai-language pages by clicking "translate" on each of them. So at the end I have both English and Thai for every pages linked to each other which users can switch between each languages.
When you say you click on
When you say you click on 'translate' are you saying the English content is then translated to Thai on the fly ? If this is the case I could possibly see some problems with the English to French translation. From what I have seen of dynamic translators on the web they do not do a very good job. Or are you saying I enter both the english and french content (as we do now for our folder (non CMS) website.
I will check out i18n and give it a try.
Thank you for the reply
Neil
Sorry for misunderstanding.
Sorry for misunderstanding. To translate (that's the button name), Drupal will create a blank page and let you enter your content in any language manually.
Thank you for the reply. I
Thank you for the reply. I did not really think it did dynamic translation but I wanted to be sure. I am looking at the Internatioaliztion module and others. I will look out for the 'translate' button.
Neil
Are you talking about the
Are you talking about the 'translate' button under Administer>Site Building>Translate interface>Translation Table>Content Type ? If not could you point me in the right direction.
Thank you again
Neil
Not that one. The translate
Not that one. The translate interface is used for only the website interface (system words) such as login, logout, save.
The "translation" button I talked about it appears on every page. Typically you will see "view" and "edit" on every page you created if you're logged in. Then if you config the Internationalization module, you will see something like "view" - "edit" - "translate"
I now see the translate
I now see the translate button.
Thank you for the clarification.
I now have the Language Switcher English/french button on the right side. I also have the English or French button on the bottom of my main page. The issue is this. If I am in the Englsih main page and click on french at the botto of the screen ... the page will translate to french. If I then select english at the bottom of the page it will change to the english page. Which is great.
but the issue is this.
When I first go to my test site it defaults to english, which is ok for now BUT if I use the Language Switcher button on the RIGHT hand side of the screen and click french the main page does not change to french. But if I use the small french button on the bottom of the main page it changes to french.
It should be noted in the IE address bar when I select french in the side language switcher bar the url changes to
www.mysite.com/drupal6/fr but the mainpage is still english but if I click the french button at the bottom of the mainpage the url changes to www.mysite.com/drupal6/fr/node/5 and the main page is now french
How can I get the Langauge switcher on the right on side of the screen working ?
I look under administer / site configuation and my default frontpage is www.mysite.com/drupal6/en/node/1 which is english. While in adminster / site configuartion if I click the side language switcer to french the default fronatpage changes to www.mysite.com/drupal6/fr/node/1 Could the problem be that my french page is /node/5 and not /node/1 ?
If so how do I fix this ?
Thank you very much
Neil
Ok I got it working. I did a
Ok I got it working. I did a web search and the below link really help me figure it out.
http://drupal-translation.com/node/37
Thank to all for the help.
Neil
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