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[Fotis]

You've setup a multilingual website using Joomla! and Joom!Fish to translate your content between languages. For some reason however, you want to offer your users the ability to experience different content -like banners- depending on the selected language. So what is the easiest way to do something like that?

Let's assume we offer our content in 2 languages, English and French. We open up our template's index.php file and locate where this change should occur, e.g. in the place of a current module position:

Code:

<?php mosLoadModules ('banner_en',-1); ?>

We change this to the following:

Code:

<?php
if ($mosConfig_lang == 'english' ) {
  mosLoadModules ('banner_en',-1);
} else if {
if ($mosConfig_lang == 'french' ) {
  mosLoadModules ('banner_fr',-1);
} else { // default - if no language is defined for some reason
  mosLoadModules ('banner_en',-1);
}
?>

Got it? 

Now, note down this: you CAN use this tip to even pass different CSS files to the browser or even images depending on the selected language!

[no64]

You could also do something similar  with images/graphics placed in your layout.

Code:

<img src="this-is-your-image-path/<?php echo strtolower($mosConfig_lang);?>_myImage.png" alt="" border="0" height="30" width="160" />

and then make different images for each language, like:

german_myImage.png
english_myImage.png
etc.

the filename of the image has to have the "language" name at the beginning.

 

[no64]

... or with hardcoded Textitems:

Code:

<ul>
<li>
                           <a href="#"><?php $translation = array('german' => 'Suchen', 'english' => 'Search', 'french' => 'Cherche'); echo $translation[strtolower($mosConfig_lang)]; ?></a>
</li>
</ul><!-- hardcoded menuitem -->

[jona37]

would this be possible to use in content?

If so would solve some translation problem in frontpage component.

thanks

[Burhank]

DRUPAL HELP PLEASE !!

Hello,
Is it possible to let me know how to do it on Drupal ??!
I've been searching the whole forum and the web for an answer and its weird that no one mentioned it !! Is it only me ??!

I did modify line 361 in  fpss.module to ignore the node category because the whole slide module crash when enabling the translating tool. Its like there is no field for the language in the module so what i did is ignored the category. I hope you can get what I mean and please create a whole comprehensive module for drupal not just the static thingy. Thank you so much.

God bless you

[287d]

Hi Guys,

thanks for the tip. I used this in my template as follows:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="templates/<?php echo $this->template ?>/js/<?php echo strtolower($mosConfig_lang);?>_date.js">

and it works fine to translate the date depending in language however only in legacy mode (using j1.5).

I had installed a plugin that only worked in legacy and now I am not using it so I though I would disable legacy but when I do my date.js does not load.
Any ideas?

Thanks.

A

[287d]

ok i sorted it for anyon ethat may have the same issue. using:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="templates/<?php echo $this->template ?>/js/<?php echo $this->language ?>_date.js">

worked. and having en-gb_date.js and es-es_date.js as the files.

note just es_date and en_date did not work!