[Library] Localization???

Hi Wendy,

I’d be happy to pick this up as a project

I want to finish off the stuff I’m working on but that should only take until the weekend, and I need to have a quick play with your ChunkTpl library so I’m conversant with that.

If anybody else wants to be involved in this, please let me know as I’d be happy to team up with anybody.

Cheers, Garry

Thanks Garryn.
Feel free to holler me if you need my help, and I’ll try as much as I could to make some free time in helping you out

Sorry I can’t contribute to the "hard" work, but I very much like the concepts behind the code, that would simply be awesome to have snippet localized, and on top of that synchronize with user’s language...

I think that’s unheard of in opensource CMS world as yet...
Another exciting prospect !!!

Hey all,

Another one of these posts from me. Any progress on this (in the core, etc.).

Chuck

I don’t know, but Wendy having moved back to Indonesia and trouble with his internet connection, things sure have slowed down or stopped...

But rest assured things are set up to handle multilingual content with the 1.0 branch (remember that the 1.0 branch is distinct from 0.9.x)

David,

I didn’t know the 1.0 was distinct from .9...

Are you saying much of 1.0 is a rewrite of .9? Where could I find this information? (I think ive read almost every post in this forum =)

1 more. Any details of the localization/multi-culture for 1.0?
ok 2 more. Is there an SVN I can get a look at?

No more... (for now).

Thanks a lot David,
Chuck

Quote from: ProWebscape at Jun 27, 2006, 04:33 PM

Are you saying much of 1.0 is a rewrite of .9? Where could I find this information? (I think ive read almost every post in this forum =)

Yes, 1.0 is a complete rewrite of MODx from scratch. Let’s just say I’ve loved the approach MODx takes to CMS since the beginning, but quickly learned I didn’t love the code itself quite as much once I joined the MODx core team and starting fixing bugs and trying to implement new features. Nothing a little reorganization, a huge reduction in redundancy, and a few object-oriented pattern implementations can’t take care of though.
;D

Quote from: ProWebscape at Jun 27, 2006, 04:33 PM

1 more. Any details of the localization/multi-culture for 1.0?
ok 2 more. Is there an SVN I can get a look at?

The initial 1.0 code is in SVN, but is not publically accessible at this point. We’re still a few iterations away from being ready to reveal the code, but I am finishing up a complete 1.0 Roadmap now to reveal to the community, along with a few other surprises, so stay tuned.

For now suffice to say, all MODx 1.0 content elements (snippets, chunks, TV’s, plugins, etc.) will allow multiple revisions of content, and can define these revisions for multiple cultures (a culture being potentially more granular than just a language selection). In addition, the introduction of a new content element type representing meta data will allow all of the attributes of a MODx document (or other web link, web service, etc.), such as pagetitle, longtitle, description, etc., to be defined using the same multi-cultural content versioning engine. Culture user preferences, session preferences, as well as the introduction of a new concept to MODx 1.0 called site contexts (which will allow you to override default modx system settings for sections of a site, and much more), will make creating most multi-cultural sites as easy as structuring your site and translating the content properly, while still providing the infrastructure for advanced developers to quickly produce more robust solutions, without having to hack the core of MODx.

Can’t you just have multilanguage sites by having links to babblefish load in a iframe? yeah! (just kidding of course).

Thanks for the update Jason (this should be in your blog or sticky BTW). good news... good news.

Chuck