Building Multilingual Sites with Drupal 7

Building Multilingual Websiteswith Drupal 7

Wednesday, 11 January, 12

About Me

Suzanne Kennedy

Front-end Developer

Co-founder of Evolving Web in Montreal

evolvingweb.ca

@suzanne_kennedy


With Drupal, you can build:

• Foreign Language Site

• Multilingual Site

• Multilingual Site with Translation

Languages + Drupal


Foreign language site:

• Locale

Multilingual site

• Internationalization (i18n)

Multilingual site with translation:

• Content Translation (Nodes)

• Entity Translation (Fields)

Languages + Drupal


Questions before you start

• Is content symmetric across languages?

• How is untranslated content treated?

• Is language associated with location/region?

• How will the content/UI be translated?

• What is the default language of the site?


Symmetric Content


Asymmetric Content


Half-Symmetric Content


Untranslated Content


Does Language = Region


Translation Workflow


Types of Text to Translate


What Gets Translated?


Variables


Text from Modules


User-Entered Text Settings


Content: Nodes


Content: Entities


Text Groups


Setting up a Multilingual Website


Installing LanguagesConfiguration > Regional & language > Languages


Language Detection & SelectionConfiguration > Regional & language > Languages > Detection and Selection


Types of UI Text

• Variables

• Built-in UI (provided by modules)

• Built-in UI (provided by you)


Variables


Selecting VariablesConfiguration > Regional & language > Multilingual Settings > Variables


Translating Variables


Non-Text Variables


TranslatingText Strings from Code


Text Strings from Code


Text Strings from CodeConfiguration > Regional & language > Translation Interface > Translate


Text Strings from Code


Translating User-entered Strings


User-entered Strings


User-entered StringsConfiguration > Regional & language > Translation Interface > Translate


User-entered Strings


Translating Content


• New node for each translation

• Nodes are mapped together

• Uses the Content Translation module (core)

Node Translation


Translating a Node


• Translation of fields instead of nodes

• Entity Translation module (contrib) provides the UI

• Fields are translatable in core

Field-Level Translation


Example: Products


Example: Issues


Setting up Field Translation


Adding a Translation


Field Translation UI


Translating the Title


Enabling Language Switcher


Comment Filtering


Translate Other Entities


Configure Entity Translation


Translate Users


Synchronize Translations


Views Translation Filters


Unfiltered View


Adding a Filter


Filtered Views


Translating Other Elements


• Blocks

• Field elements (i.e. help text, default values, options)

• Menu items

• Taxonomy terms

• Paths

Other Elements to Translate


Blocks


Block Translation

• Translate custom blocks

• Uses the Block Translation module in the i18n suite

• Allows you to target blocks for certain languages


Block Translation


Block Translation UI


Blocks Per Language


Field Translation(translating field settings)


Field Translation

• Translating field settings (label, help text, default text)

• Uses the Field Translation module in the i18n suite

• Only translates core field settings (not date fields, file fields, etc.)


Field Translation


Menu Items


Menu Translation

• Allows you to translate menu items OR target a menu at a single language

• Uses Menu Translation module in the i18n suite


Menu Translation

Menu Options:

• Fixed Language

• Translate and Localize

Menu items

• Linked to nodes

• Translate custom menu items


Menu Translation


Taxonomy


Options per Vocabulary


Translating a Term


Other Multilingual Modules


Localization Update


Localization Client


Translation Overview


Challenges

• Choosing contributed modules

• Translating custom elements (Webforms)

• Multilingual audiences

• Improve Translation UI

• Out-sourced translation workflows

• Keeping track of UI strings to translate


What’s Next?


D8 Multilingual Initiative


Learn More


Learn Moreevolvingweb.ca/training


ResourcesDocumentation on drupal.orghttp://drupal.org/documentation/multilingual

My Blog Posts about D7 Multilingualhttp://evolvingweb.ca/story/drupal-7-multilingual-whats-new-i18nhttp://evolvingweb.ca/story/content-translation-drupal-7

Gabor Hojtsy's Posts about Multilingual D7http://hojtsy.hu/blog/2011-jan-19/drupal-7039s-new-multilingual-systems-part-1-basics

Presentation at DrupalCon Londonhttp://london2011.drupal.org/conference/sessions/multilingual-drupal-solutions-use-cases-and-modules

Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative (with Video)http://drupal.org/node/1260534


http://drupal.org/documentation/multilingual

http://drupal.org/documentation/multilingual

http://evolvingweb.ca/story/drupal-7-multilingual-whats-new-i18n

http://evolvingweb.ca/story/drupal-7-multilingual-whats-new-i18n

http://evolvingweb.ca/story/content-translation-drupal-7

http://evolvingweb.ca/story/content-translation-drupal-7

http://hojtsy.hu/blog/2011-jan-19/drupal-7039s-new-multilingual-systems-part-1-basics




http://london2011.drupal.org/conference/sessions/multilingual-drupal-solutions-use-cases-and-modules




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