Hello again. Wisdom comes minutes after you click on 'Send' asking for help.
Silly me! What I needed to do was learn how to write a <r:teao:if_lang> tag. It's been a good day. I've learnt how to: - write an iterator tag <r:teao:each> - write a conditional tag <r:teao:if_lang> - find the URL of the current page in an extension And this is what the final snippet now looks like (gee, I like the 3Rs - Radiant, Radius, Ruby): This page is available in: <r:teao:each> <r:teao:if_lang> * <r:teao:nulink /></r:teao:if_lang> </r:teao:each> I know that the names of the tags need to be changed. If anyone is interested in these tags, just get in touch. Cheers, Mohit. 10/31/2007 | 2:22 AM. Mohit Sindhwani wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Apologies that this is a long post. A while back, I had spoken about my > idea for a simple language bar. > > *Background* > For a site I'm building, there are a number of technical articles. Some > (not all) of these have been translated into other languages (not all > languages). So, what I wanted to achieve was to have a simple language > bar that included links to translations of the _same_ article with > minimal effort. > > *Current Solution* > I have come around to the idea that the whole site should be organized > with each language site being put under the root. So, under the home > page, there is "en" for English, "jp" for Japanese and so on. Each > language site is set up as having the exact same structure. I require > the slug for the page to be the same for translated articles. So, > 'intro_to_radiant' would be the slug even if the exact URLs are: > -> example.com/en/tech/intro_to_radiant > -> example.com/jp/tech/intro_to_radiant > -> example.com/kr/tech/intro_to_radiant > > Now, I've created a couple of tags that render the language bar by > iterating through the languages and changing the language base in the > URL. If find_by_url finds the language article, a link is rendered to it. > > Further, this is in a snippet and can be rendered quite neatly with > minimal effort. > > *Problems* > OK, here's the problem. Right now, I have 2 tags - one is something > like <r:site:lang_each> and the other is <r:site:langlink> -- one > iterates over each of the languages in the list and the other renders > the link if it exists. > > [1] The problem is that my <r:site:lang_each> iterates over each of the > languages without knowing if the translation exists. On the other hand, > the <r:site:lang_link> renders a link only if it exists. If I use a > list to render the links to the translations, it shows one bullet for > each iteration of the lang_each. I don't know what to do. > > [2] The other way would be to iterate over the possible languages in the > link tag itself (call it something else) and render the full language > bar. This affects how I can style it (things like separators, etc.) > > Any ideas what I can do? > > Cheers, > Mohit. > 10/31/2007 | 1:57 AM. > > > _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: [email protected] Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
