Multilanguage forum

Spone

Hello,

I need to setup a multilanguage forum based on Vanilla 1, I mean a forum where any user can choose his language, and every page has a URL in each language.
I'm only talking about interface localization, not about the posts themselves.

I've installed the needed language packs.

Now I would like to be able to pass the locale in each url, so I can have (with some URL rewriting):

http://myforum.com/en/

http://myforum.com/en/comments.php?DiscussionID=1&page=1#Item_1

http://myforum.com/fr/

http://myforum.com/fr/comments.php?DiscussionID=1&page=1#Item_1

etc.

Has someone already done that? Could someone advise me on how to achieve it?

Thanks in advance.

Spone

Ok so I'm developing my own addon to achieve "full" multilanguage support, with by-user and category-based language management.

I would like to know if there is a way to modify the language configuration variable, according to the user prefs, before step 4 or totally redefine it within my addon. I don't find any way (except hard-coding in init_vanilla.php) since the extensions are loaded after that.

Could a developer answer me?

miquel

I'm not very into the latest versions of Vanilla, but an idea came to my mind:
use the .htaccess file to detect the language in the url, like in the scheme you wrote above and then send the request to a .php which could load the dictionary for the appropriate language, and load the requested page afterwards

Spone

Thanks miquel, good idea, I'll definitely try this out.

Spone

It works!

I added the following line to my .htaccess:

RewriteRule ^(de|en|fr)(\/?)(.*)$ dispatch.php?lang=$1&url=$3 [L,QSA]

and here is my dispatch.php:

<?php $dispatch_lang = !empty($_GET['lang']) ? $_GET['lang'] : 'en'; $dispatch_url = !empty($_GET['url']) ? $_GET['url'] : 'index.php'; // Security check: does the file exists? $dispatch_file = basename($dispatch_url); if (!file_exists($dispatch_file)) {header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found'); die;} include($dispatch_url);

Then, in conf/settings.php, I have:

$Configuration['LANGUAGE'] = !empty($dispatch_lang) ? $dispatch_lang : 'en'; // [...] $Configuration['WEB_ROOT'] = '/'; $Configuration['BASE_URL'] = 'http://myforums.com/'.$Configuration['LANGUAGE'].'/';

as you can see, I renamed my language folders en and fr (instead of English and French).

Then, every time I need the current language in my code, I can use $Configuration['LANGUAGE'].

nawfreda

hello there

i am new in vanilla.
i want to use exactly the same as you did.
but vanilla version 2.0.18.1 doesn't have dispatch.php
please let me know how can i do for vanilla latest version ?

x00

@nawfreda‌

This is an old thread for vanilla 1 which is a completely different software.

I believe there is a locale switcher on github. that would change the locale of the forum.

You can't force people to write in a language though, if you wanted to have language sections you could use categories.

btw pls make a new discussions if you have an questions.