Drupal provides an intuitive method of managing multilingual content as part of its core functionality. In this chapter, we will see how to configure the Locale module so that the site can function in multiple languages. The Locale module, in conjunction with an enabled language file, can translate the interface into the user's current language. We will see how the interface translations can be tweaked, or added if they are missing.
We then move on to content translation. Each content type has the option to be translatable; we will configure the Basic page content type so that it can be translated, and provide a sample translation.
When providing multilingual content, it's important to provide a mechanism for the users to select their language of choice, so we will see how to configure the language-switching block for end users.
To finish the chapter, we will look at the more advanced example of providing translations for a view. We will see how to create a view out of a translatable...