aladna.nl in 4 languages using 1 tv for language selection

This site whent live today
http://www.aladna.nl

its a company that translates in 4 languages, so I made the site in 4
I used 1 template and 1 TV
Made a dropdown select TV called "lang" with the 4 Languages in it like this:
Dutch==9||English==10||German==19||French==28

the numbers are folder id’s that contain the Documents in corresponding language

in my template I called dropmenu this way: [[DropMenu? &startDoc=`[*lang*]`]]

When creating a page I just select in what language the page is, that whay it will show the right "root"

I also used the eForm made by Raymond. Made 4 formtemplates for each language 1 and use 1 mailtemplate cause that needed to be in dutch only. see here how I used the snippet.

I used the RandomImage snippet twice once in the header and once in the image left bottom.

and used the "PNG-Alpha Transparency for MSIE" plugin so that i could use translucent png’s for the header and images.

thats all folks
Greets Dimmy

Excellent!

Clever use of TVs, thanks for this tip/tutorial, very handy and might I say inspirationnal too (SO MANY ways to use MODx...) !

Quote from: Dimmy at Jan 24, 2006, 03:03 PM

its a company that translates in 4 languages, so I made the site in 4
Dutch==9||English==10||German==19||French==28

Dank je wel!
Thank you!
Danke schön!
Merci beaucoup!



Bee

Lol thanks for the kind words
Dank je wel voor deze aardige woorden
Vielen dank fur die liebe worden
sorry I do not speak french (not that my german is that good hehe)

Quote from: Dimmy

sorry I do not speak french (not that my german is that good hehe)

I’ll add the french translation then :
"mdr, merci pour ces mots sympas !" (mdr stands for lol)

;)