Language specific options

[textilebbs]

When we set up forum ,The Language specific options appare like Custom profile fields.
So that ,When usrer choose forum language,the name of forum can be choosed either.For example :myspace forum has
this features.
My forum set up with 2 language English &Chinese.URL http://www.textilebbs.com/index.php

[Highway of Life]

What are you getting at? (what is the point you are trying to make?)

[Freitag]

I believe the point is to have the site name be configurable per language setting.

The "simple" way to implement this would be to put the site name in one of the the language files

\language\en\common.php
'SITE_NAME' => 'My Cool Bulletin board',

or

\language\de\common.php
'SITE_NAME' => 'Mein kühles Anschlagbrett',

or

\language\it\common.php
'SITE_NAME' => 'Il mio albo freddo',

With the appropriate one selected depending on your users language setting. There are a ton of boards out there that support multiple languages simultaneously.



Edit: Apologies for mechanical translation, but you get the point

[Highway of Life]

Oh, is that all?

Yes, you could just put them in the language common.php file as you said, but you’d want to do the site description as well:

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'SITE_NAME'     => 'My Site name',
'SITE_DESC'     => 'My site description',
 

And then in includes/functions.php ... FIND

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      'SITENAME'                      => $config['sitename'],
        'SITE_DESCRIPTION'              => $config['site_desc'], 

REPLACE, WITH:

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       'SITENAME'                      => $user->lang['SITE_NAME'],
        'SITE_DESCRIPTION'              => $user->lang['SITE_DESC'], 

[textilebbs]

I believe the point is to have the site name be configurable per language setting.

The "simple" way to implement this would be to put the site name in one of the the language files

\language\en\common.php
'SITE_NAME' => 'My Cool Bulletin board',

or

\language\de\common.php
'SITE_NAME' => 'Mein kühles Anschlagbrett',

or

\language\it\common.php
'SITE_NAME' => 'Il mio albo freddo',

With the appropriate one selected depending on your users language setting. There are a ton of boards out there that support multiple languages simultaneously.



Edit: Apologies for mechanical translation, but you get the point

ringht!
but not eactly!
For This site an example : [3.x/Olympus] Discussion,
I want change [3.x/Olympus] Discussion into mutl-language ,when the board language was be changed.

[textilebbs]

Oh, is that all?

Yes, you could just put them in the language common.php file as you said, but you’d want to do the site description as well:

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'SITE_NAME'     => 'My Site name',
'SITE_DESC'     => 'My site description',
 

And then in includes/functions.php ... FIND

Code: Select all

      'SITENAME'                      => $config['sitename'],
        'SITE_DESCRIPTION'              => $config['site_desc'], 

REPLACE, WITH:

Code: Select all

       'SITENAME'                      => $user->lang['SITE_NAME'],
        'SITE_DESCRIPTION'              => $user->lang['SITE_DESC'], 

Not only this,but also"[3.x/Olympus] Styling" &"EasyMOD for 2.0.x" all this board name

[textilebbs]

Does the team have understand what I said ,& going to add this new feature in the following version?

[Freitag]

Oh, I see you also want a language translation for forum names too.

That is trickier. I did leave out some details in my earlier reply, but this is a different animal.

My earlier solution is not what you want.

For programmatic languages there are the various language files, but you are wanting language options for user (or at least admin) generated content.

I think there are a couple of ways to implement something like this. The one that comes to mind first woudl be to have a database version of what is implemented with the file structure.

You would need a table that had (at least) 3 columns. There would be a column to indicate language. A column that was some sort of key to identify which string you were representing, and then a column of text.

Then in every place that you have the chance as an administrator to enter text, you'd need a drop down to select language so that you could place text for all entries.

You'd need a main language page also to let you add/remove/enable/disable languages from your list.
I guess you could place a side by side list of all entered text on that admin page so you could edit all the strings in one place if you wanted to add a new language after the fact (instead of hunting and pecking through every menu trying to find the blanks and fill them in)

And then every page that displays text from the database would instead of pulling the single entry as it does now, would perform a lookup in the language table for the current language version of that text string.

That is a pretty major change to the basic architecture.

I'm not sure this would work well as a MOD, but it might.



Would you want each user to set a language for their posting and have some mechanical translation of the post into other languages too?


Or you could allow each user to pick the language as normal and use something like this for the rest of the text. Perhaps less than perfect.

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[textilebbs]

Thanks.
Help the mod will come soon.It can' be done by myslef.

[stickerboy]

Your best bet would be to post in the MOD Requests forum over at phpBB.com.
Area51 isn't the place to be asking for MODs or feature requests