Using old multilingual data with Modx?

Hallo all,

I’m new to Modx. I have multilingual website, the data is stored in the different fields in the same table. I catch the cookies, and send the information in the table depend on the language the user choose.


Example of Product table:
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| Product_Id | Product_Desc_en | Product_Desc_de | Product_Desc_it |
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| 1 | Some English desc | Some German desc | Some Italian desc |
| 2 | .....


I need some help from you all ...

*) How is the content is stored in Modx ? Which table is used ?
*) Can I use these old data above in Modx without insert / type it again ?
If yes, how to do that ?
*) If I must convert it to Modx table structure, how to do that ?

Any tips will very nice ... I hope it ..

Best Regards,
- Pedma -

The main page properties including the content are stored in the {modx_prefix}site_content table. There is no in-built multilingual support in modx but there are several ways to achieve a muli-lingual site. Have a look around in the [ur=http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/board,17.0.htmll]internationalisation board[/url]

It might be possible to keep your product data in it’s existing table structure if you use/build a snippet to display the product data. You might even be able to incorporate some of your old scripts into the snippet to detect the language and grab the right content column.

It’s a different story with other (normal) document content. You would have to import that into modx documents and find a method to make it multi-lingual aware. As I said browse through the internationalisation board or have a look at the wiki perhaps.

You’ll need to get your head around snippets, tvs and chunks, which are very powerful but you need to give yourself some time.
Good luck

Hi Tobyl,

Many ... many thanks for your information ... Nice, now I believe what my friend said, Modx Forum is the BEST ....
Very quick reply, friendly, active & helpful ... Modx is very powerful he said, we just need to learn it first .... we need a little time and effort to understand it, but afterthat WE CAN DO ANYTHING (we can do in Modx what Joomla & other CMS can not do ??) ....

I have read about this tutorial & will give it a try (sound very nice tutorial about multi lingual) :
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,29597.0.html

Your information about ’ready to use’ snippets is also nice :
http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/Category:Snippets

But if I want to make my own snippet, where should I begin ? Is there tutorial or similar for it ?

Thanks.
Best Regards,
- Pedma -

Pedma,

Welcome to modx.

There’s quite a few places you can read more about snippets...here in the forums or in the wiki. Here’s a link to snippets tutorial in the wiki

http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/Creating_Snippets

And a getting started with modx guide....

http://www.bobsguides.com/MODx.html

All the best with your project! 


cheers/k

Hi Kongondo,

Many thanks for your information ....
Modx forum is really nice ...

Thanks.
Best Regards,
- Pedma -

You’re welcome

After reading all that stuff in the wiki and the tutorials don’t forget to look at http://sottwell.com/modx-from-the-inside.html. She’s got some nice articles on modx that clarify how the whole system works.

And just open up some of the existing snippets and read through their code. It’ll give you an idea how snippets interact with the modx object.

Hi Tobyl,

many thanks again for your information. Sure I will see the URL you gave me. I have seen some other stuff at Modx forum, downloaded the Modx 0.9.6.3 and tried to play with it. It’s not so easy for me as beginner (I still need time ... , but from forum I know that it’s really powerful, We can do almost *ALL* what we want with Modx ... Nice ...
With the forum full of Friendly & experienced php coder, I think Modx will be the best in the future (not only in Year 2007 ...

Thanks.
Best Regards,
- pedma -

Hi All,

About Multilingual :
I found tutorial for multilingual in the Wiki : http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/Make_Multi_Lingual_Site
but not tried it yet. I’ll check it to night ...
Any one has experienced with it?

About template:
Is there free Modx Templete that has vertical & horizontal menu / navigation, the menu background color will change if we put mouse over it (like solarflare II in Joomla) ??

Many thanks.
Best Regards,
- pedma -

Hi

One of our community members does template conversions - licensing and stuff info is given for each template. Check them out here:

http://www.demo.amdbuilder.net/

More templates here:
http://www.sottwell.com/templates.html

And also in the repository

Have you seen the new multi-lingual plugin? It’s still under development but you can find it here

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?topic=32807.0

Hope these help.

cheers/k

Hi Kongondo,

Many thanks for your informations. The Templates are nice ... thanks...
The plugin for Multilingual is beeing tested .... I still need to learn more about chunks, snippets etc ....
Modx is more complex than Joomla, I need some more time ...

Thanks.
Best Regards,
- pedma -