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Hi Concrete5 community,

I have a question concerning the Internationalization add-on. I want to set up a bilingual website (Dutch/english) that also incorporates a blog.

It's concerning that blog that I had some questions:
1. Is it possible that if I add a blog entry on the dutch part that it's also published to the english part of the website? If so, how should I do this?
2. For every blog post I would like to have some fixed values that are automatically translated; example published by
2. Is it possible that comments posted on both parts of the website are shown?

Thanks in advance for your help guys!
 
pieterbeulens replied on at Permalink Reply
Hi, maybe you could have a blog that is separate from a language tree? So you have all your regular pages in the multilingual tree, but you have only one blog page, since you want the comments and the blog entries to be the same on both blogs. And this way you don't actually need to translate the "hardcoded" text.
NiVanc replied on at Permalink Reply
The problem with this approach is that i'm not able to have some "hardcoded" translated according to the selected language.

For example:
Published by (English version)
Gepubliceerd door (Dutch version)

I really hope that someone can help me out with this issue.
NiVanc replied on at Permalink Reply
I still haven't found a solution for this matter.

I really hope that someone could help me out, thanks in advance!
pieterbeulens replied on at Permalink Reply
I'm afraid I don't know of any way of accomplishing this, but it should be possible I think by calling the specific block from the database and using a multilingual setup by adding to your config/site.php the following lines:

$sitelang = substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],strlen(DIR_REL)+1, 2);
switch($sitelang) {
   case 'en': {
      define('LOCALE', 'en_US');
      break;
   }
   case 'nl': {
      define('LOCALE', 'nl_NL');
      break;
   }
   default: {
      define('LOCALE', 'de_DE');
      break;
   }
}


Please note that you must define your multilingual site likehttp://www.something.com/en orhttp://www.something.com/nl. This piece of code makes sure that the correct translations are used when you're on a specific language.

Hope this helps you a bit further.
NiVanc replied on at Permalink Reply
I will try that out.