One guestbook, two languages

I’m working at a multilanguage site with this structure

root
  de
    german doc
  en
    english docs

To change the menues or the contact forms I’m using PHx and UlimateParent. That’s not too hard.

Now the client wants a guestbook. I build this with Jot. Of course I need only one guestbook for both languages that shows up on the german menue as well as on the english. The links should be  /en/guestbook or /de/guestbook and I would like to change the guest books forms and so on accordingly. So I would need the IDs of the language folders.

A similiar problem I´ve got with MaxIGallery.

I have not the faintest idea how I could achieve this. Is there anyone with an idea?

Use weblinks with added &lang=en or &lang=de, then in your actual guestbook page have a snippet to get that from the GET and specify which chunk templates to use. Probably best to use $modx->runSnippet with a different argument array for each language.

Well thank you, Sottwell. Not sure, I’ve got it, but at the moment I can’t try to make it out because I have some earnest problem with this site. http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,14290.0.html

Here is my solution (It took my some time to find it because I’ve tried hard to get my site running again. Now I know: neverever ignore OpenGeeks warning: Neverever delete this base-element from the HTML-Code ;-) )

Like Susan pointed out I created two weblinks with added ?lang=de and ?lang=en parameters.

and then I just needed a little snippet called "lang":



To modify the output of the gallery I use PHx like that: