Comments on: Multilingual Website with CakePHP

By: karo

karo — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:25:23 +0000

Please help, i don’t seem to understand something here… these .po files contain small site-wide strings, like filed-names etc… but what about the actual pages’ content? i need to give the site owner a chance to add croatian and english version of each page (i.e. page’s main content, e.i. long texts). I already made the cms and have the separate fileds for page text in either language (db fields are text_cro and text_en).
How do i grab and show the correct text?

Thanx!

By: Sava

Sava — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:12:23 +0000

let's say you have 2 languages: romanian and english. The links would look something like this:


				params['lang'] == 'ro'){ echo 'Romana';} else { echo $html->link('Romana', am($this->params['pass'], array('lang' => 'ro')));}?>
				params['lang'] == 'en') {echo 'English';} else {echo $html->link('English', am($this->params['pass'], array('lang' => 'en')));}?>

By: Yasir Arafat Hasib

Yasir Arafat Hasib — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:25:52 +0000

How do i make a link for home page that will change the language in home page?

By: Sava

Sava — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:45:28 +0000

You need to edit the model as well for multiple languages :


	var $actsAs = array(
		'Translate' => array(
			'field1'            => 'Field 1',
			'field2'         => 'Field 2',
			'field3'       => 'Field 3'
		)
	);

And in your views you need to add this code for every field you want translated:


			data['title'], '{n}.locale', '{n}.content');
			foreach(Configure::read('Config.languages') as $codeLang => $locale):
			e($form->input(
					'Contest.title.'.$locale['locale'],
						array(
							'label' => '('.$codeLang.')',
							'value' => isset($title[$locale['locale']]) ? $title[$locale['locale']] : '',
							'class' => 'textField'
							)
					));
			endforeach;
			?>

... this code will create a form input for each of the languages you configured CakePHP to use

By: jayu

jayu — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:41:45 +0000

Hello,

I am new in cake php. I want to create site which support multiple language support. I follow step given by you also create two table name (1) i18n (2) posts
here is the table structure

CREATE TABLE `i18n` (
`id` int(10) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`locale` varchar(6) NOT NULL,
`model` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`foreign_key` int(10) NOT NULL,
`field` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`content` mediumtext,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `locale` (`locale`),
KEY `model` (`model`),
KEY `row_id` (`foreign_key`),
KEY `field` (`field`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;

but when try to implement in my view its not working properly. Can you please guide me.

By: Sava

Sava — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:34:46 +0000

Hello Farhan,
You can read about using arabic characters here: http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/unaneem-com-a-community-website-built-on-cakephp-with-extensive-use-of-ajax

Scroll down and find “Challenges we had to face and overcome using CakePHP. There's a nice custom substring UTF-8 method (needs mb_string to be loaded) you should use.

By: Farhan

Farhan — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:01:10 +0000

Thanks for writing a nice article, i have followed your way and by manually using Configure::write(‘Config.language’, ‘ro’); i can do anything.
I have one question everything works fine but when i use hebrew or arabic language to display i saved them in utf8 .po file. But inside view i see garbage characters instead of correct characters? can you elaborate little bit how we can manage this??

By: Sava

Sava — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:53:49 +0000

@Shamun, All you have to do is to take the browser's language like this:


$language = $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'];

and $language will be en-us,en;q=0.5 in my case. You can also get an easier to use string with substr.


$language = substr($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'], 0, 2);

And $language will be en. And now just tell cakephp to use the language files for $language.

By: shamun

shamun — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:43:27 +0000

@Sava:
This is for a predefined mannual translation. Say if i have small site, but lets say i have “browse, upload elements”, it automatically take the default browser language.

Q. How to make browser based translation? (telling browser via cakephp, to render as romanian language or dutch or english etc, what ever, browser is supporting.)

Thank you

By: Sava

Sava — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:05:39 +0000

I don’t really get it kapil. How can it return the string kapil if you don’t have this string in your .po file.

Search through your files for the string it returns (in your case “kapil”) and see what the problem is there.