Multilingual forums

Hello Ed,

Can you give an URL so one can see your problem in action? I don't quite understand what you are trying to achieve.

Thanks!
Frank

Hi, thanks for responding :)

Well the site is still a good distance away from being live, and at the moment in maintenance mode.

But simply put, I created an English forum, then went to categories>terms to translate the vocabulary. Then checked that the forum vocabularies were enabled for translation through the multilingual system. Basically following the procedure as shown in the documentation pages for the i18n module. From here I went to advance settings and set it to current language and no language. Everything works fine and the forums switched when I click the language switcher. However I realised that what I effectively was doing was making two forums, one for English, the other German, and the English posts didn't appear in the German forum and vice-versa.

I've attached a few pics so you can see what I mean

This isn't my aim as I just want the forums interface to change with the language switcher, but enable both countries to participate in the one forum. I don't want separate forums for both countries. The comments which would be brief would be translatable using Googles Language API. So both countries then would be able to participate in a singular forum, only the forums interface would be translating when the language switcher was clicked in either language, but the posts remain.

I do realise that the forum vocabularies are by definition, "user defined strings" so wont be translatable using the manage strings option in the way I want, but is there a way I can achieve this?

I'm also very much a drupal newbie and If I've missed some simple setting or a way to do this I apologise in advance, but I've scoured drupal and there seems very little info on this.

Ed

I'm sorry but I don't know much about internationalization in D5. Much of that functionality has moved to core modules in D6.

I suppose you have already read Internationalization (i18n): Building multilingual sites (http://drupal.org/node/133977).

There's a review which recommends using the Localizer module (http://drupal.org/project/localizer) instead of i18n (http://drupalmodules.com/module/internationalization?#reviews).

HTH
Frank

Hi
If I understood you correctly try theme_forum_list look at http://api.drupal.org/api/function/theme_forum_list/5
& use t() when needed , for example

and translate your forum description via locale string translate interface

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this is another related issue http://groups.drupal.org/node/12045

Thank you avior :)

I looked into the code closer and found what I needed exactly where you suggested it would be. I also found that wrapping the t function around $vocabulary->name in the function, theme_forum_display allowed the name "Forum" to be localized as well. I was literally tearing my hair out trying to find out how to do this, so thanks so much for pointing me in the right direction :)

Frank,

Thanks for taking time out to reply, it's appreciated. I read the review though on drupalmodules.com and all I can say is (speaking as a newbie on a huge drupal learning curve!) that it must be down to what additional modules some people run, or a faulty install ,or what i18n may or may not be compatible with, as I've found i18n really great to use on drupal 5. I'm looking forward to when a few of my remaining contributing modules catch up to drupal 6 as i'm reading the multilingual cababilities are even better with the upgrade.

Thanks again for the help guys :)

Ed