[Wayfinder+YAMS] Filtering multilingual documents - My Forums

Re: [Wayfinder+YAMS] Filtering multilingual documents

ddim — Nov 24, 2009, 03:41 AM

Quote from: PMS at Nov 24, 2009, 09:29 AM

@MadeMyDay.

If you want to manage a single Ditto call, then rather than placing one copy in each language’s content field you could place it in a chunk, or you could place it directly in the document template.

@ddim

Don’t forget that if you have the appropriate ditto language files available you should also be able to add: &language=`(yams_mname)` to your call so that, for example, the ’no results’ text appears in the correct language.

Yes, of course, simply in this example I didn’t need the language, because it never returns ditto language texts. But this is specially important with pagination, dates formatting and so on.
I would say that it is good style to allways put &language=`(yams_mname)` in the call.

Below is an example of news listing, which formats the date according to the language:

[!Ditto? &id=`(yams_id)_listnews` &language=`(yams_mname)` &extenders=`@FILE assets/modules/yams/yams.extender.inc.php` &total=`10` &tpl=`listnews.dt` &orderBy=`datepublish DESC` &hideFolders=`1` &debug=`0` &dateSource=`pub_date` &dateFormat=`%d %B %Y`!]

May be a bit off topic, but one remark about the dates - to have proper date outputs, don’t forget to set the locales properly. With ditto this can be done in the language file. Add something like this to it:

 $loc = setlocale(LC_TIME, 'bg_BG.utf-8');

And related to the usage of "navigation" snippets like wayFinder and ditto - I’m trying to use them mainly inside templates. In very rare cases (like sitemap pages) I’m using such calls in the pages.

All the examples above can be seen in action at http://bbr.nitbg.com. In the next days this will be transferred to a live site at http://www.bbr.bg

Re: [Wayfinder+YAMS] Filtering multilingual documents

PaulSuckling — Nov 24, 2009, 03:29 AM

@MadeMyDay.

If you want to manage a single Ditto call, then rather than placing one copy in each language’s content field you could place it in a chunk, or you could place it directly in the document template.

@ddim

Don’t forget that if you have the appropriate ditto language files available you should also be able to add: &language=`(yams_mname)` to your call so that, for example, the ’no results’ text appears in the correct language.

Re: [Wayfinder+YAMS] Filtering multilingual documents

ddim — Nov 24, 2009, 03:26 AM

One small issue with using the snippet is if you want to combine it with other ids in &excludeDocs. For example with this construct:

&excludeDocs=`10,11,36,[[ComaDelimitedChildren? &startID=`[[UltimateParent]]` &tv=`available` &tvLang=`(yams_id)` &filter=`1,1`]]`

you will have a problem because in case the snippet returns nothing in the SQL query you will have something like: "... not in (10,11,36,)..." which will lead to SQL error.

To solve this, in the snippet add one more element to the array of IDs which can never be found. For example before the implode call add $out[]=’-1’:

....
$out[]='-1';
$output=implode(',',$out);
return $output;

Re: [Wayfinder+YAMS] Filtering multilingual documents

MadeMyDay — Nov 24, 2009, 03:22 AM

Thank you very much! Have to get used to (yams_id) as a placeholder in the Ditto-Calls ;-)

Re: [Wayfinder+YAMS] Filtering multilingual documents

ddim — Nov 24, 2009, 03:18 AM

Quote from: MadeMyDay at Nov 20, 2009, 04:52 PM

Hi ddim,

With ditto filters and using multilingual TVs this is not big issue.

how does your solution look like? Do you have different Ditto-calls for each language? Then it is no problem, but how would a solution look like when there is only one ditto call for both languages?

Thx for sharing!

Hi,
No I have single ditto calls. An example of filtering using the same TV is:

[!Ditto? &id=`(yams_id)_footer` &extenders=`@FILE assets/modules/yams/yams.extender.inc.php` &parents=`112` &total=`8` &tpl=`footer.dt` &tplCurrentDocument=`footer-current.dt` &tplLast=`footer-last.dt` &orderBy=`menuindex ASC` &filter=`hidemenu,1,2|available_(yams_id),1,1` &hideFolders=`0` &debug=`0`!]

see the second part of the filter "available_(yams_id),1,1"

Re: [Wayfinder+YAMS] Filtering multilingual documents

MadeMyDay — Nov 20, 2009, 10:52 AM

Hi ddim,

With ditto filters and using multilingual TVs this is not big issue.

how does your solution look like? Do you have different Ditto-calls for each language? Then it is no problem, but how would a solution look like when there is only one ditto call for both languages?

Thx for sharing!

Re: [Wayfinder+YAMS] Filtering multilingual documents

PaulSuckling — Nov 17, 2009, 07:18 PM

@ddim

That’s great. Thank you very much for sharing!

[Wayfinder+YAMS] Filtering multilingual documents

ddim — Nov 17, 2009, 08:10 AM

One feature I was missing with this perfect multilingual solution is to create "non symmetrical" sites.
What I mean is to have the possibility to filter different documents in different languages.
This is specially important when creating navigation.
With ditto filters and using multilingual TVs this is not big issue.
With Wayfinder the only way to filter (I know) is to use &excludeDocs.
Here is (not very polished) snippet, which can be used for this:
There are some ideas, taken from other posts in this forum, sorry than I don’t give explicit credits to the people

 documentObject['id'];
$tv = isset( $tv ) ? $tv : "";
$depth = isset( $depth ) ? $depth : "1";
$tvLang = isset( $tvLang ) ? $tvLang : "";
$tv=$tv.'_'.$tvLang;
$flt = explode( ',', $filter);
$value = $flt[0];
$filtertype = isset( $flt[1] ) ? $flt[1] : "2";
$ids = $modx->getChildIds($startID,$depth);
$out=array();
$condition='';
foreach ($ids as $id) {
	$condition='';
	$tvarray = $modx -> getTemplateVarOutput( $tv, $id, $published = 1 );
	$condition=$tvarray[$tv];
	if ( ($filtertype == 1) && ($condition != $value)) {
		$out[]= $id;
	}
	else if ( ($filtertype) == 2 && ($condition == $value) ) {
		$out[]= $id;
	}
}
$out[]='-1';
$output=implode(',',$out);
return $output;
?>

Then call like this:

[!Wayfinder? &startId=`3` &limit=`10` &excludeDocs=`[[ComaDelimitedChildren? &startID=`3` &tv=`available` &tvLang=`(yams_id)` &filter=`1,1`]]` &hideSubMenus=`TRUE` &outerTpl=`sub_menu_outer.wf` &rowTpl=`sub_menu.wf` &rowClass=`navButton` &hereClass=`currentSection` &lastClass=`last`!]

and radio or dropdown TVs with name available_en available_fr available_bg would allow the menu produced bu WF to be different per language.