RE: Multinlingula Sites and Methodology

Bob Krieger Tue, 21 May 2002 20:05:24 -0700

Title: Message

One thing I've seen in a lot of forum apps with language packs, is one separate page that sets all the display text values. A visitor to the site would select the language in which they wish to view the site.

For Example:

cfg_lang_english.cfm:

variables.imageroot = "images/english/";

variables.helloimage = "hello.gif";

variables.goodbyeimage = "goodbye.gif";

variables.hello = "Hello, Sir or Madam";

variables.goodbye = "Goodbye and Have a Nice Day.";

variables.register= "Please Register!";

.....

</cfscript>

cfg_lang_slang.cfm:

variables.imageroot = "images/slang/";

variables.helloimage = "hey.gif";

variables.goodbyeimage = "seeya.gif";

variables.hello = "hey dude..";

variables.goodbye = "see ya...";

variables.register= "Yo.. sign up!!!";

.....

</cfscript>

dsp_welcome.cfm:

<img src="javascript:void(0);">#variables.hello#

etc. etc. etc.

This way when you need to add a language, you change one page only. The variables are all static to the language definition page. This would require a rework of the site into FB3 and making all the text into separate variables, but in the long run, the site would be infinitely scalable as far as languages are concerned.

Bob Krieger

www.FBTutor.com

The FuseBox Tutor

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Voldengen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 7:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Multinlingula Sites and Methodology

John,

FB2 is not all that hard to swap up to FB3. The nasty part is

renaming all your fuseactions, but you can do that with some

well tought out global search and replaces.

Maybe you can do it if the time spent is justified.

-Erik
-----Original Message-----
From: John Jonathan Kopanas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 6:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Multinlingula Sites and Methodology

Good ideas thanks a lot. The only problem with the layout file is that when I did the English side of this site I used FB2 :-(. Good Idea for the images though. Any more suggestions? :-)

----- Original Message -----

From: Balazs Wellisch

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 8:55 PM

Subject: RE: Multinlingula Sites and Methodology

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

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

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:

<cfswitch expression="#client.language#">

<cfcase value="fr">

     <cfset fusebox.layoutFile = "frenchLayout.cfm">

</cfcase>

<cfdefaultcase>

     <cfset fusebox.layoutFile = "englishLayout.cfm">
</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:

<cfswitch expression="#client.language#">

<cfcase value="fr">

     <cfset request.images = "path/to/french/images/">

</cfcase>

<cfdefaultcase>

     <cfset request.images = "path/to/english/images/">
</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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