Feature request - Add multi-lingual content feature
Reported by dleffler | March 19th, 2013 @ 12:35 PM
This feature would allow the site to better support multi-lingual content (we already support a multi-lingual admin interface).
Rough thinking would be some sort of dispatcher that would reference a 'content_expLang' record lookup for a assoc piece with the requested language. e.g., you ask for text item id =1, you are viewing on a secondary language of DE, and pull up the expLang where model = text and id = 1 to get a new text item id # for the DE version otherwise you go with the requested one.
There would need to be:
- an interface to describe the base language since it wouldn't always be English
- a setting to 'turn on' multi-lingual content
- an interface to easily edit various language versions of an item...while a tabbed edit would be the most intuitive, it would make updating objects difficult based on how it's done now
- a widget to select desired user language
- a 'hack' to not only dispatch to pull the desired language variation of the requested item(s), but also for the menus
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dleffler March 24th, 2014 @ 02:44 PM
As a note, this might be possible using a variation of the new workflow/revisions code. The simpler approach is to make them mutually exclusive whereby the revision_id is also the language_id, it would be much more complex to update the database layer to handle both mutli-languages and multi-revisions simultaneously.
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dleffler April 21st, 2018 @ 08:03 PM
Also...would need to factor in multi-lingual SEO
- would need to add parsing 1st sef url parameter of language such as http://exponent.org/es/blog/show/title/test - would require adding hreflang to pages - would need to allow for multi-lingual SEO Meta info for an item (title, description, keywords), but NOT change the sef_url...or would we?We would probably NEVER pursue multi-lingual ecommerce since it would require some sort of union between most of the many product fields, but we shouldn't try to do any on-the-fly price, etc... conversions
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