RE: Multinlingula Sites and Methodology

Balazs Wellisch Tue, 21 May 2002 17:45:52 -0700

Personally I would do it the second way. You'd have a lot more files to modify using the first method if you wanted to ad a third language.

But instead of using attributes.language I'd simply put the language preference into a client variable. So instead of

it would read

<cfinclude template="dsp_display#clients.language#.cfm">.

That way you don't have to pass the language variable to every single script. (Although, you could also avoid that hassle by appending attributes.language to #self# in fbx_settings.cfm)

You could also put the same logic in your layout file like so:

</cfcase>

</cfdefaultcase>

</cfswitch>

That way you could have a different layout for each language.

You could also set up a variable to reference the correct images in fbx_settings.cfm:

</cfcase>

</cfdefaultcase>

</cfswitch>

Then in your display files you put <img src="javascript:void(0);">

Of course you could still use attributes.language instead of client.language if you prefer...

Hope this helps,

Balazs

-----Original Message-----
From: John Jonathan Kopanas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 5:38 PM
To: Fusebox List
Cc: Denis Doyle
Subject: Multinlingula Sites and Methodology

As a programmer from Quebec, a lot of the sites I have to work on have to be bilingual. Just as a clarification, they only have to be in French but most people want them in English because they do business outside of Quebec. Do not let me get started with the politics here in Quebec, if it was not for the women I would be long gone :-). Ok, where was I, oh yes multilingual sites. I was wondering if anyone has come up with their own personal methodologies on using Fusebox and creating multilingual sites to fulfill the following requirements:

- it is easy to add a new language to the site

- the logic is not duplicated

- Images might have to change for each language

What I don't want to do:

- I don't want to have to create a new directory for every language and copy over the site and just change the text and the tables I reference.

Some possible solutions:

- have the display pages in the different languages and keep the action pages the same and just add language conditions to the actions pages. Therefore the amount of switch cases would increase.

ex)

<cfwitch case="example">

    <cfinclude template="act_process.cfm">

    <cfinclude template="dsp_display.cfm">

</cfswitch>

<cfwitch case="example_fr">

    <cfinclude template="act_process.cfm">

    <cfinclude template="dsp_display_fr.cfm">

</cfswitch>

- another way to go would be is to pass language in query string and append it onto the file name in swtich so it chooses file according to language

<cfwitch case="example">

    <cfinclude template="act_process.cfm">

    <cfinclude template="dsp_display#attrubutes.language#.cfm">

</cfswitch>

Any other suggestions? Thanks for your help.

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