[pmwiki-users] Questions re Multilingual feature on PmWiki

[Donald Z. Osborn]

Thanks Hans,

So, one set of questions and a thought:

1a)  if I set up a multilingual interface (commands) in the config.php, then
that will hold for all wikigroups that do not have a specific language
setting ?
1b) if I set up a multilingual interface (commands) for 4 languages in
config.php, and one for only 2 languages on two specific wikigroups, will
the 2-language setting prevail over the 4 language one in those wikigroups ?

2) I think I will have to examine the multilingual content options. It
appears too simple: IOW, install multilanguage.php in the cookbook
directory, a line in config.php and then the (: :) commands with the text in
the wikipage.

Don




On 3/6/07, Hans <design5 at softflow.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Tuesday, March 6, 2007, 1:31:08 PM, Donald wrote:
>
> > If I understand correctly (my reach not infrequently exceeds my grasp in
> > some of these things), the multilanguage.php file lets the user's system
> > preferences determine the language of interface (per
> > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/MultiLanguage ). This is apparently
> > site-wide ... or can it be only in the wikigroups so defined by adding
> > include_once('cookbook/multilanguage.php');
> > in the relevant group local/*.php files?
>
> > If one adds the abovementioned line in the config.php file, that would
> > surely activate multilanguage in all groups. What happens if there are
> > XLpage language preferences already defined for specific wikigroups?
> Which
> > prevails?
>
> multilanguage.php will allow you to create pages with alternative
> language content inside the same page, and allows users to chose their
> preferred language, so they will see th epage content in their
> language. A cookie will hold the users language choice.
>
> The recipe will not change the language of the PmWiki interface, as
> the terms displayed for the action links, button labels etc.
> These can be displayed in different languages using the XL function
> and the respective XL pages. In order for these to switch at user's
> choice with multilanguage.php you need to provide switch definitions
> for the XLPages, as briefly mentioned on the recipe's cookbook page:
>
> if ($_COOKIE['userlang'] == 'de') {
> XLPage('de','PmWikiDe.XLPageCookbook');
> XLPage('de','PmWikiDe.XLPage');
> XLPage('de','PmWikiDe.XLPageLocal');
> }
> if ($_COOKIE['userlang'] == 'it') {
> XLPage('it','PmWikiIt.XLPageCookbook');
> XLPage('it','PmWikiIt.XLPage');
> XLPage('it','PmWikiIt.XLPageLocal');
> }
> etc.
>
> I think it should be okay to install the recipe for selected groups
> only in their local/GroupName.php files. There you can also define
> which languages a user may select from, using the DefaultLanguages
> array, as the example below:
>
> <?php if (!defined('PmWiki')) exit();
> # Group.php file
>
> # user languages for this group
> $DefaultLanguages = array('en','it','de');
> include_once("$FarmD/cookbook/multilanguages.php");
>
>
> Hans
>
>
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