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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)

Community resources


There are lots of great Drupal resources available. You can participate in the groups and forums, hop on IRC, read the documents and articles, and watch the videos!

Groups, forums, and IRC

  • Internationalization group: groups.drupal.org/i18n

  • Translations group: groups.drupal.org/translations

  • Translations forum: drupal.org/forum/30

  • IRC channel: #drupal-i18n

Documentation and guides

  • Multilingual Guide: drupal.org/documentation/multilingual

  • HowTo: Basic Internationalization setup: drupal.org/node/1268692

  • Translate Drupal to your language: drupal.org/contribute/translations

  • Localization API: drupal.org/node/322729

  • Module developer's guide (Multilingual support): drupal.org/node/303984

  • Internationalization module APIs: drupal.org/node/1114010

  • Developer cheat sheet: hojtsy.hu/files/Drupal7TranslationCheatSheetv2.pdf

Articles, videos, and more

  • Multilingual Drupal 7 articles: kristen.org/drupal7-i18n-articles

  • Multilingual Drupal 7 videos/slides: kristen.org/drupal7-i18n-videos

  • Multilingual Drupal 7 issues: kristen.org/drupal7-i18n-issues

  • Multilingual Drupal 7 extra topics: kristen.org/drupal7-i18n-extra