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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)

About the Reviewers

Gábor Hojtsy is an open source enthusiast and contributor, most active as a Drupal developer, working with and on the open source project itself at Acquia. He started off contributing to open source in 2000 when he became an active contributor to the PHP Documentation team. He became the lead to that team and the php.net website team for years. He technically edited the first Hungarian PHP developer book, led courses on web technologies, and co-organized various PHP and generic web development conferences. He started working with and on Drupal in 2003, and became devoted to the multilingual functionality and sometimes the lack thereof. He has been an active contributor ever since, and was the co-organizer of the international DrupalCon Szeged 2008. He is an active maintainer for Drupal 6, the initiator of localize.drupal.org, Drupal's software localization site, and lead to the Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative.

When not geeking out, he is passionate about singing, music, and amateur acting, especially when these are all combined.

Jose Reyero has been working on web development for more than 10 years. He is a long time Drupal contributor and the original author and maintainer of Internationalization and some other Drupal modules. He currently works as a freelance consultant and Drupal developer in León, Spain.