Stacey Multi-Lang

[joachimesque]

Hello,

(I'm kinda new to github. also I'm a graphic designer, so dev is not my forte)

I've toyed a bit with Stacey last month, and discovered recently the version 3, with support for TWIG and such. I haven't looked at it in details yet, but I'd be interested to know if there's the possibility to build a multi-language website with Stacey...

Ideally it would mean having a project at example.com/en/project/example but at the same time, the same images would be used for other languages

• example.com/fr/projet/exemple
• example.com/de/projekt/beispiel

I guess it would mean 3 different YML for each folder, like en.project.yml, fr.projet.yml and de.projekt.yml each being called by a different template...

Do you think such a thing could be possible? If it's not doable right away, would you consider that an hypothetical feature in the future?

Thank you :)

[lunelson]

The ML question has been on the Stacey GetSatisfaction board for a long time as well; so until a solution emerges for Stacey, and at the risk of sounding like a troll, I'll point out that there's another system called Kirby, superficially very similar to Stacey, which implements this.

http://getkirby.com/

[joachimesque]

Thanks for the answer, I'll look into Kirby :)

Would you think it possible to make a multi-lang Stacey site without URL localization?

[lunelson]

I really don't know. It's beyond my expertise, otherwise I'd have done
it. Would love to have been able to contribute that to Stacey...

[joachimesque]

I gave it a try, and I miserably failed.

I guess a first step would be to have the Twig i18n extension working in Stacey http://twig.sensiolabs.org/doc/extensions/i18n.html Then, a way to select which text file is loaded (every text file begining with the lang code, e.g. en.project.yml Sadly it's way over my abilities...

[lunelson]

Ah, interesting. Well, maybe someone will pick that up

[kolber]

Does Kirby do this? I can't find any information to suggest it does?

I havent messed around with setting up multi-language sites before, so I'm not sure the best solution here. Switching content files based on language-type seems appropriate, but how does one set the language to begin with?

Through a dropdown visible on the site? A cookie? Strictly through the URL?

[lunelson]

It's a branch of the github repo. This blog post explains it

http://getkirby.com/blog/multilang-preview

[joachimesque]

The default language could be picked up with the help of the .htaccess... My only experience in a ML site was to use +MultiViews to switch between French and English :

# Language Configuration
#
AddLanguage fr .fr
AddLanguage fr-fr .fr
AddLanguage fr-ca .fr
AddLanguage en .en
Options +Multiviews
LanguagePriority en fr
ForceLanguagePriority Fallback

This will redirect all the French visitors to index.html.fr, and the rest to index.html.en. I don't know if it would be a good solution for Stacey.

I guess a better way to redirect the visitor would be through a cookie and a RewriteRule.

[adriencater]

What i've done for a site that needed this (http://inner-space.ch/) was to customize the templates, defining content_en: and content_fr: fields, and then using JQuery to display the appropriate language. It's not extraordinarily elegant, but it got the job done. JS code is in the page source, you can have a look.

[luisnicg]

I made some modifications to implement multi language support.

This is the sample code: https://github.com/luisnicg/staceyCMS_multilanguage