web site shared between two cities

My town is twined with a German town. To share a lot of informations between the two cities, we plane to build a shared web site. Around this subject i have some questions ...

1/ is it possible to associate the language of the admin manager to the login of the user ?
e.g: when a french admin user is loging, the admin interface is in french and when is it a german admin user, the language interface is configured in german.

2/ to implement a forum, which is the simpliest solution with Modx ? SMF with the SMF integrtaion snippet ?

3/ Does it possible to associate a domain name with a subset of Modx documents ?
eg: http://www.french-city.fr which point to the french modx subset of documents and http://www.german-city.de on the german modx subset of documents. With the two subsets inside the same modx document implementation

4/ This site will be both in German and French. It should be open Mid March. Does I start to build it with 0.9.6 or await the 0.9.7 (it isn’t a trick question )

I have read the 0.9.7 Road map page regarding contexts and l10n support :

# Contexts – This new concept will allow MODx configuration settings to be overridden, extended, isolated, or shared across domains, sub-domains, sub-sites, multi-sites, cultural-specific sections, specific web applications, etc.

# Improved i18n and l10n support – Cultures and Contexts can work together to provide granular internationalization settings throughout the framework to allow you to define language, currency and date formats, or anything else that might need to be localized in a deployment.

But, beyond these annoncements, could i have some details on how will be implemented these contexts and localisation stuffs.

Thanks for your answers and advices

1. Yes, each manager user can be assigned his own language preference in the User tab when creating/editing the user.

1. yes!
2. yes, smf is the best manager friendly forum i guess!
3. yes, you can use a document as of forwarder to specific domain or subdomain and there is two other ways too but a little tricky.
4. yes, you better start now cause i’m not sure Claire(Ryan’s daughter) will be a year old till march.
5. well, as of definition, its clear it would be something like what exactly css and html is about, i mean content and display being apart from each other but here -say code, configs apart from visual or sensible material that makes cultural/international differences that we sense or see!

3) You could try this: http://modxcms.com/Subsites-the-MAD-HACK-1433.html
It works with SUBdomains though. Not sure if it works with 2 completely different domains.

Quote from: ganeshXL at Feb 03, 2008, 04:03 PM

3) You could try this: http://modxcms.com/Subsites-the-MAD-HACK-1433.html
It works with SUBdomains though. Not sure if it works with 2 completely different domains.

Yes it does work with two domains

This is the Huck pack that MODx can changes connection DBs each domain, subdomain.
You come to be able to manage two or more domains by one resource.

I don’t recommend this cause it is a core hack thus prevents intial updates but, its a good idea for having MODx on Big sites, more than 50000 pages spread over subdomains as it uses two separate db’s.