Displaying different chunks depending on the current language/context

Hi there,


I’m on finishing building a bilingual website and it works pretty fine - i’m using Babel and its subfolders method. However one problem remains, and I’m sorry about that but I can’t get to any solution, while I thought this wouldn’t be that difficult.

It’s simple : I use a few chunks in my templates. Those chunks contain some strings that have to be translated... obviously. Now tell me please, how can I ask MODx to output a chunk depending on the context ?

I thought I could use Lexicon but am I wrong if I understood that Lexicon is a back-end-only tool ? I’m asking such things because it’s not that easy for me to read english docs... sorry again

Any help = 1000 hugs (NOT obligatory)

Hi,
An interesting question! I’m sure I’ll run into this eventually, as I love languages.

Here’s one idea. In your template(s), you can make good use of this extremely helpful variable:


I just tested this, and it works great!

I have the above variable nested inside a chunk. Somewhat hard to read, to be sure. This goes in my template:


So if I have two contexts, "francais" and "espanol", I make 2 chunks: francaisthingie and espanolthingie.

Then your template in a particular context will choose the right chunk, and thus the right block of text will be pulled in. There are more automated ways of doing this, I’m sure, and a coder would find some via snippets or something else. I know that some people prefer using TV’s instead of chunks. There are surely more advanced ways of doing this, but this could work.

Hope that helps!
Dave

omg thank you so much samba, that works perfectly ! me definitively not iz smart developer.

now send me your address by pm and i’ll come and hug you this summer

Thank you again !

Ha ha!
Ca me plait... j’aime bien les hugs.

Cheers

If you create a current_language context setting, you could also use:



I believe Samba’s solution would be faster, though.

Perfect solution, glad i found this thread! But i think i would like to take it a step further. Since babel gives editors easy to use translate options how do i go about making the strings inside the "thingies" available for easy translation? Can i make context related tv’s available for these strings?

I know that my client would like to add more and more languages to the site, and i’m in need of an elegant way of implementing this.