I’ve picked up MODx and have been working with it the past few days on and off as a solution for a web site I’ve been tinkering over. I’ve gone through the wiki and noticed the multi-language tutorial located there.
Basically I’m interested in creating a conditional platform where at the root, a session is stored for language selection. After that, the conditional determines the language served.
By using quite a few custom TV’s with a snippet as the conditional structure -> [*longtitle*] -> [*longtitle-eng*],[*longtitle-spa*],[*longtitle-deu*] etc.
I’m not familiar with the core of ModX so I’m asking first if it is feasible.
Snippets:
ChangeLang - A simple conditional/switch for language switching to be inserted in the template. Pulls the URL of the page, so it can switch smoothly between languages of the same page.
LangSession - Handles the session variable for $_SESSION[’customlang’]
SelectLang - Another conditional/switch for choosing which TV to use.
TV’s:
xxxx-yyy (Where xxxx is the core tv base name (longtitle/content etc), and yyy is the 3 letter language code)
The reason I want to do this is because it doesn’t make sense to have copies of the web site for different languages for a small web site and have to go to each page individually to edit. (Larger may run into cache issues from what I understand so far of the core.) The goal with this is that you can edit multiple language versions of the site from one document utilizing different TV’s and a conditional.
Thoughts?
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MODX Staff
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You can do it that way, but, how will search engines index your pages in different languages if they all come from the same URL?
