Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 12:32:29 AM, nikos roussos wrote: > what's the proper way to make a bilingual site with pmwiki using the same > skin?
I recommend putting different language sections in each page, and have one of them displayed, by user choice. I tried http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/MultiLanguage which does exactly that, offering markup like (:if userlang en:) english text (:if userlang gr:) greek text ... (:if:) common text but i had problem with that recipe, especially using th elanguage conditional in the sidebar. So i use http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/ViewModes instead. You get a (:if view ...:) conditional, a setview= action to set a view cookie, and a {$View} page variable. I redefined the $ViewList array, before including the script in config.php, like $ViewList, array( 'en' => 'en', 'de' => 'de', 'gr' => 'gr', 'it' => 'it', )); and set a default: $View = 'en'; Then in the pages i use (:if view en:) english text (:if view de:) deutscher Text ... (:if:) common text In the sidebar, or header, I put links for setting the 'view' (language): [[{*$FullName}?setview=en| english]] [[{*$FullName}?setview=de| deutsch]] Actually instead of 'english', 'greek' etc text labels i use little flag images to click on. [[{*$FullName}?setview=en| Attach:Site/Site/flag-en.gif"english"]] [[{*$FullName}?setview=de| Attach:Site/Site/flag-de.gif"deutsch"]] That takes care for multi language content. It is also possible to use a multi-language wiki interface for all the action links etc. I did that in config.php after the views.php is included with if ($_COOKIE['view'] == 'de') { XLPage('de','Site.XLDePageCookbook'); XLPage('de','Site.XLDeLocalPage'); XLPage('de','Site.XLDePage'); } etc. The default for pmwiki is english, so does not need to be specified. The XL translation terms pages get loaded according to the cookie setting. A slight hitch is that on first page load the default language interface will show, and only on subsequent page loads the cookie setting will be taken into account. But this is for me a minor inconveniance, and only affects the interface. Hope this gives you some ideas! ~Hans _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
