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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)

General system configuration


We've made good progress by configuring our languages and translating our Drupal interface. You are probably anxious to start translating your content, but there are a few loose ends we should tie up first.

In this section, we'll configure some general system settings by updating the default country, time zone, and date/time formats. We will then work with the Variable Translation module to translate site information such as the site name and slogan. The section concludes with creating contact forms for our new languages.

Updating regional settings

Navigate to the Configuration | Regional and language | Regional settings page. You can choose your site's default country and first day of the week in the Locale settings.

In the time zones section, you can set the Default time zone as well as configure additional settings for your users. It's recommended that you allow users to set their own time zone, but the other settings can be chosen based on preference:

Date and...