Language driven templates

[Tata]

Please, don't lol. But I somehow can't find what am I doing wrong. There is a CMSimple?XH1.4 installation which I want run both in SK, DE and EN languages. As the content of EN and DE needs different templates. I have created in [templates] folders [mytemplate_sk], [mytemplate_en] and [mytemplate_de]. There is the mytemplate_sk defined as the site-template by default. In each template.htm I put

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<?php 
if($sl=='sk') $cf['site']['template']="mytemplate_sk";
if($sl=='de') $cf['site']['template']="mytemplate_de"; 
if($sl=='en') $cf['site']['template']="mytemplate_en";
?>

But when switching the language always only the default template is loaded.
I know that I can define new template for any page. But to make it for each particular EN or DE page is sure not the right way.

[Gert]

Hi Tata,

I have a CMSimple_XH Solution ready, based on CMSimple_XH 1.4.

With that you can give every language an own template and an own password, if you want. If nothing is set, the default template and password are in use.

And you can operate subsites so much as you want, with one CMSimple_XH-installation. Every subsite also can have an own template and an own password, if you want. If nothing is set, the default template and password are in use.

You will find a folder "2site" (like "2lang"), copy it and rename it to "anything", copy a language-file of your choice and rename it to "anything.php", do the same with a language-config-file of your choice ("anythingconfig.php") - ready, you can call the subsite by calling the folder "anything", login and set template and password by langconfig settings.

You can also create a pluginloader-language-file "anything.php", but you not have to do that, if that file not exists, the pluginloader works in English.

Do you want to test it?

[Tata]

Of course I want. You know I have a plenty of time right now.

[Gert]

Download: http://www.ge-webdesign.de/cmsimple/dlc ... php?id=301

Every interested user may download and test it. I'm curious, if that is interesting for anyone

I remember, that the question of different templates for every language is not new. The subsite-Solution is just a nice additional option.

[Martin]

O, I missed a hot discussion triggered by Gert's subsites-solution.

But to come back to the question of localized templates. No need for fiddeling around with the configuration or even changing the core files. IMHO the "template.htm" itself is the best place for conditional layouts. Here you can just include whatever you need, different template blocks or completely different templates. E.g. you could just create your localized templates and come up with this folder structure:

• my_template
  • en_template.htm
  • sk_template.htm
  • de_template.htm
  • template.htm

Your real templates are in the "sl_template.htm"-files. In this simple case, your "template.htm" just needs one single line:

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<?php include $sl . '_template.htm'; ?>

But of course you could also keep your basic template in the "template.htm" and just include those sections that need localization. (This approach, using the "template.htm" as a switch, is very flexible: You can offer different templates - 2 or three columns - for pages with / without subnavigation, for the start page, top-level-pages, in the daytime / in the night etc. )

Martin

[Holger]

IMHO the "template.htm" itself is the best place for conditional layouts.

Yep, as I wrote in the other thread, with a basic php knowlwdge, it's not a real problem.

Holger

[Gert]

Yep, as I wrote in the other thread, with a basic php knowlwdge, it's not a real problem.

But in a usable CMS every user should can do that without such knowledge, by dialog in the settings.

In another thread you wrote: "I like dialogues" - and now you like necessary php knowledge and scripting for the users?

The subsite solution is a solution to operate several Websites in subfolders with just one installation of CMSimple_XH and Plugins in the Root. To give a language another template without php knowledge is just one little aspect of the subsite solution, done by the way.

The user can use it or do it by another way - no problem

[Holger]

But in a usable CMS every user should can do that without such knowledge, by dialog in the settings.

In another thread you wrote: "I like dialogues" - and now you like necessary php knowledge and scripting for the users?

No, that's why I've posted that small change to cms.php:

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if ($sl != $cf['language']['default'] && is_dir($pth['folder']['template'].basename($sl).'/')) {
    $pth['folder']['template'] .= basename($sl).'/';
}  

With that, a user only have to create a subfolder. No need to know about programming in template.htm or anywhere else.
And no dialog or other config etc needed

Holger

[Holger]

The subsite solution is a solution to operate several Websites in subfolders with just one installation of CMSimple_XH and Plugins in the Root. To give a language another template without php knowledge is just one little aspect of the subsite solution, done by the way.

The user can use it or do it by another way - no problem

It seems to be a problem if someone posts another solution

[Gert]

It seems to be a problem if someone posts another solution

You don't want to understand.

Subsite solution is NOT a solution to give another language another template. That's just a small additional feature of subsite solution. I know that there are many other solutions for that.

And now I will quit the discuss about localized templates.