Hello every body I am starting my first project with ProcessWire for one of my websites newsflames.com But not only that! Moving from simple code I have made to ProcessWire must also add value even this is only changing system step. One of the new features I am planing to add in this step is to add multi language so the main categories structure wold be: (English is default language in homepage and it's categories) Home /
-Politics /politics/
- Sports /sport/
- Arabic /ar/
-- Politics /ar/politics/
-- Sports /ar/sport/
- French /fr/
-- Politics /fr/politics/
-- Sports /fr/sport/
And so on..
All categories in website: (Politics Sports Business Health Technology Science) but in this example I use 2
I have download ProcessWire 2.3 from this site and after I install languages modules and tray all the ways I found in this site *note. there is no check boxes!
But if I download the zip file from github it's all there plus some other stuff I think. However I still need to add content/pages in languages other than default (English) because some local news that in native language only! So I can't have English as mandatory! simple Example: Home
- Politics
-- Yahoo! News
-- Fox News
- Arabic
-- Politics
-- Yahoo! News
-- 123 News
- French
-- Politics
-- Yahoo! News
-- abc News
And so on.. So I came up with this and I wold say it's all there in PW, I did not invent any thing just for start duplicate the basic-page.php in to category.php and language-home.php and add theme from admin area and assign template with pages: Home
-Politics category template
- Sports category template
- Arabic language-home template
-- Politics category template
-- Sports category template
- French language-home template
-- Politics category template
-- Sports category template
And so on..
I am using default installation with default profile in this example
In my case I want the main categories in the top of the page so lets change the topnav
Find in head.inc
<ul id='topnav'><?php
// Create the top navigation list by listing the children of the homepage.
// If the section we are in is the current (identified by $page->rootParent)
// then note it with <a class='on'> so we can style it differently in our CSS.
// In this case we also want the homepage to be part of our top navigation,
// so we prepend it to the pages we cycle through:
$homepage = $pages->get("/");
$children = $homepage->children;
$children->prepend($homepage);
foreach($children as $child) {
$class = $child === $page->rootParent ? " class='on'" : '';
echo "<li><a$class href='{$child->url}'>{$child->title}</a></li>";
}
?></ul>
Change to:
<ul id='topnav'><?php
// Create the top navigation list by listing the children of the homepage.
// If the section we are in is the current (identified by $page->rootParent)
// then note it with <a class='on'> so we can style it differently in our CSS.
// In this case we also want the homepage to be part of our top navigation,
// so we prepend it to the pages we cycle through:
if ($page->rootParent == "1006") { // Arabic page ID
$homepage = $pages->get("/ar/"); // Arabic page URL
}
elseif ($page->rootParent == "1008") { // French page ID
$homepage = $pages->get("/fr/"); // French page URL
}
else {
$homepage = $pages->get("/"); // Homepage URL
}
$children = $homepage->children("template=category"); // show only pages using template category
foreach($children as $child) {
$class = $page === $child ? " class='on'" : '';
echo "<li><a$class href='{$child->url}'>{$child->title}</a></li>";
}
?></ul>
Simple if condition but it's better to do something else like array or maybe add a field or maybe use the page URL to identity what and where? I don't know for now
Now a simple language list and we going to use the subnav style for this example but this time will copy it instead of changing it
Add this cod any where in the sidebar
$defaultlang = $pages->get("/"); // Homepage URL
$languages = $pages->find("template=language-home"); // show only pages using template language-home
echo "<ul id='subnav' class='nav'>";
$languages->prepend($defaultlang); // display default language in the list
foreach($languages as $language) {
$class = $language === $page->rootParent ? " class='on'" : '';
echo "<li><a$class href='{$language->url}'>{$language->title}</a></li>";
}
echo "</ul>";
It works just fine except that if you are in an English sub page like /sports the English link class will not be on (problem only in default language that if you want the css effects) // $class
This may not be good for you if you plan to go back later for the great language module especially for large data! I only have 6 pages for every language plus news sources and all the news is cached but not saved so I can go back to use languages modules any time I want in this website
Fell free to ask any thing about this
If you can help improve or have any ideas please do
