Using levi’s multi language for a new project
Development and Programming
Hi everyone,
I started a new bilingual project, and we’re using Levi’s multi language plug in to handle the transaltion from english to french
I read the documentation a couple of times and i am stuck on what to do after i reach the choose your language and separate them with a pipeline
and that’s as far as I got , can’t figure out the rest starting at this line
Usage Determining the language Now that the addon has been installed an setup correctly there are two options for determining which language file should be used. The extension determines which language file to use by the languages abbreviation. Subdomains URL segments http://leevigraham.com/cms-customisation/expressionengine/lg-multi-language/#url-segments
would really appreciate some help to get this going,
Mod Edit: Moved to the Extensions: Discussion and Questions Forum
So i got some help from @ebarstad
I created some fr custom fields
when i add a /fr at the end of the url, i get to see the french content.
my one issue now, is when i click on the read more link i get the english content.
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="news" limit="2" status=" top story" }
<div class="post clearfix">
<h3 class="post_date">{entry_date format="%M %d %Y"}</h3>
<span class="corner"></span>
<h2 class="post_h2">{if lg_lang == 'fr'} {title_fr} {if:else} {title} {/if}</h2>
<!-- img/montreal-boston-ny-flyer.gif -->
{exp:imgsizer:size src="{featured_news_thumbnail}" width="150" alt ="poster" class="align_left"}
{if lg_lang == 'fr'} {news_excerpt_fr} {if:else} {news_excerpt} {/if}
<div class="read_more_post clearfix"><a href="http://{title_permalink=">read more</a></div>i figured it out
this is what i used, curiosu to se if this is the proper way of doing it.
{ {if lg_lang == 'fr'}<a href="http://{title_permalink=">read more</a>also how do i set the site to also work with http;//www.fr.examplesite.com
I understood Leevi Graham to have been working on an LG Multi Language Pro, which was to have given us more power for handling language-specific subdomains and whatnot. I even saw a screenshot of something else Leevi’s been working on, which makes reference to that LG Multi Language Pro extension. But for those of us in the general public, or even his software customers, it doesn’t seem to be ready for the light of day yet.
Too bad, really. Because I want to buy and use it. But when you look at the productivity out of that guy, it’s hard to blame him for these choices.