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How can I build a language switcher?
I am building my first multi-language site with Craft as well. This is from a thread over at Google+, so I didn't come up with this myself but it works very well:
{% block locale__switch %}
{# ...
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How do I output the locale’s name?
You can get the current locale’s name via craft.i18n.getCurrentLocale().
{% set locale = craft.i18n.getCurrentLocale() %}
{{ locale.name }}
That will output the name using the current locale’s ...
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How do I create a locale dropdown to switch between languages?
This is because you loop through all but the current locales. Remove the without filter to loop them all.
{% set otherLocales = craft.i18n.getSiteLocaleIds()|without(craft.locale) %}
.
Add "...
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Craft 3 language switcher
The concept of localization has changed in Craft 3, there are not only locales anymore - now you have different sites and site groups.
Example without multisite - only different locals
You can get ...
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How can I build a language switcher?
I have changed the above code a little bit because it causes an error when I have for example a website with three active locales and an entry with only one or two active locales.
The error is: ...
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Multilingual Dates where date format varies
Craft has extended Twig's date filter so that it translates the output (no documentation for this, but the code is in craft/app/etc/templating/twigextensions/CraftTwigExtension.php around line 152). ...
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What accurately will set asset paths for multilingual sites?
If each locale uses the same TLD but uses a subfolder for localized content (i.e. example.com/en, example.com/de, etc.). You can move between development, staging, and production environments without ...
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What's that |t - filter for?
It's the short syntax for the translate filter. Set up a translation file as described in the docs and the string you apply that filter to is translated according to it.
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How can I build a language switcher?
Thought I would share my language switcher, as it shows languages in their native name.
<nav class="nav nav--locale">
<ul>
{% set locales = craft.i18n.getSiteLocales() %}
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Locale Switch not Affecting News Index Template
This Google+ thread may help: https://plus.google.com/116942350387086245334/posts/TBtR3XwuZGx
Current options as per above thread:
Create a Single for the News index template
Create a localized ...
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Get locale entry.title in other languages
You can use the 'locale' and 'id' attributes in your query to request the same entry in another locale.
{{ entry.title }}<br>
{{ craft.entries.id([entry.id]).locale('nl_nl').first.title }}
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Can I choose a language for the translate filter?
Yes. You can see all of the arguments the |t filter supports by looking at the docs for Craft::t(), the function that |t maps to. Its $language argument defines the target language translation to use. ...
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Multi-lingual site navigation made of singles, channels and structure
I have one main structure "pages" and got rid of all single sections. I also gave each channel's index page an entry in the structure (good for URL translation). Then I added some entry types to it (...
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What accurately will set asset paths for multilingual sites?
An answer that works is to make your own environment variables, setting those apart from language variables, and as needed for each of your multiple sites.
Then you can use these variables to make ...
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How can I build a language switcher?
I've created a plugin which makes it incredibly easy to add language-switching links to your website...
Language Link plugin for Craft CMS
Standard Usage
Add this to your _layout, or create a ...
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Can I change the list of available locales?
You can download the locales you want from https://github.com/yiisoft/yii/tree/master/framework/i18n/data and place in your craft/app/framework/i18n/data folder and they will show up as options.
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Converting existing content to a different locale
Currently it's not possible to edit a locale from the CP, which means you have to edit it directly in your db.
Edit locale:
UPDATE craft_locales SET locale = 'en' WHERE locale = 'en_us';
Edit ...
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How to add locales in Craft 3
"Sites" in Craft 3 replaces the old "Locales" concept in Craft 2.
There's not much documentation on them yet, but the setup process is virtually the same as it is in Craft 2 for locales. The main ...
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Craft 3: how can I set dynamic Base URL in sites setting?
So as of Craft CMS 3 RC7, they added a new alias() Twig function.
So what you can do is something like this in your general.php:
'aliases' => [
'@basePath' => getenv('CRAFTENV_BASE_PATH'),
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Locale change based on geolocation
The mod_geoip2 Apache module with a redirect in .htaccess file.
See: http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/mod_geoip2/
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Can locales be used to switch layouts?
Untested, but should be fairly straightforward.
{% if craft.locale == 'de' %}
{% set template = '_layout_de.html' %}
{% else %}
{% set template = '_layout.html' %}
{% endif %}
{% extends ...
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Is there a way to have checkbox field labels translatable?
Short of hardcoding all these checkbox values and applying the translate tag on them
That's actually the only way to translate field names, checkbox labels/values and whatnot: taking advantage of ...
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How to extract static messages from templates into translation files?
Update:
For Craft 3, we use the Yii 2 Inspections plugin for PhpStorm to do this now. https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9400-yii2-inspections
There is a translation inspection that will let you ...
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Show a list of recently used tags only from the current locale
Brandon at P&T was able to fill in the piece I was missing. He said:
To only get tags that were related from a specific locale, you just need to specify that in your relatedTo param:
{% set ...
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How do I get Matrix elements to copy their content across language Locales?
Ok, in some conversation with Brandon which leaned this direction, I realized a different direction to temporarily solving most of this problem.
It turns out that a root of the issues is that marking ...
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Custom environment variable to main assets folder
The easiest way to do this would be to just use root-relative resource URLs:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/assets/css/styles.css">
<script type="text/javascript src="/assets/...
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Problems with channel and locales
Okay, so I found the answer. And the reason it wasn't working is because I've been using another .htaccess (a hybrid of h5bp and Craft) than the default that comes with the Craft download. And this ....
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Export Craft Data
One way to handle this is by using the Export and Import tools by Bob Olde Hampsink. This will allow you to output the data to a CSV file, which you can hand off to the translator. Be wary though, if ...
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Multi Country website - Using locales is the best approach?
Yes you can do this by going to the craft/app/framework/i18n/data folder and copying the language file for each occurrence. You must give each a unique name es_pn, es_co, es_nc. Inside each of those ...
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Adding new locale - hangs at Step 3 'ResaveAllElements'
You probably need to up Craft's internal memory limit, as well – the following should go into the array in your general.php configuration file:
'phpMaxMemoryLimit' => '1024M',
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