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Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites

Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites

By : Kristen Pol
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Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites

Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites

4.8 (10)
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.
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Chapter 3. Working with Content

In the previous chapter, we set up a test site, translated our interface, and configured general system settings to support multiple languages. Now we will start our content translation process!

The first part of this chapter focuses on nodes. We'll work with the node translation method which creates multiple nodes, and the field translation method that uses one multilingual node. We will look at examples and use cases for both methods.

After our nodes are translated, we'll configure non-node core entities (comments, users, and taxonomy terms) using field translation. The chapter concludes with a quick look at built-in Drupal content pages, namely the default home page, taxonomy term pages, and search.

Nodes

For the majority of Drupal websites, most content exists in nodes. These nodes come in different shapes and sizes as defined by a node's content type. The information, if any, that needs translating for a particular node depends on how the content is used...

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