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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)

Taxonomy terms


In the previous chapter, we translated taxonomy term fields using the Entity Translation module. For a completely different approach, we can leverage the Taxonomy Translation module from the Internationalization package.

Note

Before continuing, if the Multilingual Content module is installed, verify whether the Switch interface for translating checkbox is enabled at Configuration | Regional and language | Multilingual settings | Node options or you will see unexpected behavior in this section. For example, if you edit a German translation using the English UI, then you will only see English terms even though you would most likely want to see German terms.

Taxonomy translation module

The Taxonomy Translation module provides four different multilingual options depending on how we use our vocabularies and terms. The simplest choice is to use the default option and do nothing to a vocabulary or its terms. This makes sense if you have terms that are language-independent such as a...