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Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites

By : Kristen Pol
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Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites

By: Kristen Pol

Overview of this book

Drupal is one of the most powerful and popular PHP Content Management Systems at the moment. By making your site multilingual, you are opening the door to a whole new user base, in as many countries as you like. Use the localization and internationalization features of Drupal 7 to automatically detect where your site users are visiting from and select the content appropriate to them. The world is your oyster!Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites guides you through the wild world of localization and internationalization with practical and real-world exercises that you can apply to your own website. You will go from theory to practice and acquire the skills you need to make a user-friendly Drupal 7 site that supports multiple languages.You will follow focused chapter exercises to add multiple-language support for your user interface, content, and various parts of your site's configuration such as system variables, menus, and blocks.The latter half of the book fills in the details with step-by-step exercises for localizing the interface, the content, and the configuration. Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites will give you the knowledge and the skills necessary to configure your site to support your language needs.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Chapter 2. Setting up the Basics: Languages, UI Translation, and System Settings

In the previous chapter, we got our bearings as we learned about Drupal internationalization at a conceptual level. Now we will get down to business and begin our localization process.

This chapter starts with setting up a test site to use for the book exercises. Once the site is ready, we'll add several new languages and configure language detection so that we can view each language using different URLs. With the detection in place, we will enable a switcher block to easily navigate between each language.

After the language settings are done, we'll move on to translating the Drupal interface. First we will translate manually by grabbing files from localize.drupal.org, and then we'll configure the site for automatic updates. Once the contributed translations are in place, we will learn how to add and change translated UI strings as well as how to contribute these translations back to the Drupal community. The...