As we saw, eZ Publish created a siteaccess for every language that we enabled in the first chapter. If we'd like to add more languages for our site, we need to create a new siteaccess folder and configure the language settings inside it.
Let's create, for example, a German siteaccess. This task can be summarized in the following three steps:
de
, inside settings/siteaccess/
.eng
siteaccess, inside the de
folder..ini
configuration files for the language.We need to create all of the .ini
files from the main language siteaccess in the new language folder (de
). To do this, we need to create a symbolic link for all the files, except the site.ini.append.php
, that are to be copied into the new folder.
Configure all of the site.ini.append.php
files for all of the languages siteaccesses, to enable the new German language.
To do this we will edit the files, adding the highlighted code:
# vi settings/siteaccess/eng/site.ini.append.php [RegionalSettings] Locale=eng-GB ContentObjectLocale=eng-GB ShowUntranslatedObjects=enabled SiteLanguageList[]=eng-GB SiteLanguageList[]=ita-IT SiteLanguageList[]=fre-FR SiteLanguageList[]=de-DE TextTranslation=disabled
Do the same for the site.ini.append.php
files in the fre
folder and the ita
folder.
After that, we need to copy the eng/site.ini.append.php
to our new folder, de
, and edit it as follows:
[RegionalSettings]
Locale=de-DE
ContentObjectLocale=de-DE
ShowUntranslatedObjects=enabled
SiteLanguageList[]=de-DE
SiteLanguageList[]=eng-GB
SiteLanguageList[]=ita-IT
SiteLanguageList[]=fre-FR
TextTranslation=enabled
The directive SiteLanguageList
tells us the order in which the system will show the content for our objects. If the content isn't translated into German, eZ will show the English version; if the English version is unavailable than it will show the Italian one, and so on.
The last step is to add the new languages inside the settings/override/site.ini.append.php
, as we did for the dev
and staging siteaccesses:
[SiteSettings] .. SiteList[]=fre SiteList[]=ita SiteList[]=eng SiteList[]=de [SiteAccessSettings] .. AvailableSiteAccessList[]=fre AvailableSiteAccessList[]=eng AvailableSiteAccessList[]=ita AvailableSiteAccessList[]=de .. RelatedSiteAccessList[]=fre RelatedSiteAccessList[]=eng RelatedSiteAccessList[]=ita RelatedSiteAccessList[]=de
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