Posted by Anonymous on December 13, 2009 at 2:08am
Does anyone have any experience setting up a bilingual/multilingual site with Drupal + Ubercart?
I'm having a hard time getting Ubercart to play well with i8ln and was hoping someone my have gone through this before and could help me out with a few tips or pointers?
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Hi, I will be interested in
Hi,
I will be interested in joining hands with you, as we will also be developing the similar kind of application with ubercart and multi language.
Waiting for your reply
EOT Infotech
The person with the most
The person with the most experience with multi-lingual ubercart sites would be dokuro, he might or might not attend next meetup depending on his schedule I guess.
Maybe telling us where you get stuck might help other people come up with ideas/solution to your problems. Although I have a very limited experience with ubercart, I've played quite a bit more with the I18n features of Drupal so I might be able to give you some pointers on that.
Some modules I often used in extension to i18n
-preserve language
-transliteration (file support)
-translation helpers
-translation overview
-translation table
Some of the biggest problem with Drupal multi-lingual support is to understand how the system was conceived and not trying to build your site how you think it should support multiple languages. It can also often feel awkward how the system handles translated content...
Anyways, try us with a few more specific problem we might be able to help.
First: How to translate the Ubercart Catalog Taxonomy?
Thanks for the support Antoine.
There are quite a few things in Ubercart (UC) that don't translate out-of-the-box or using the regular i8ln tools. One thing I haven't figured out how ot do is get the UV product Catalog to translate. When I switch languages it disappears.
This UC thread descries some of the issues multilingual UC users face: http://www.ubercart.org/forum/internationalization/10878/i18n_issues_i_d... . The main solution is one presented by firewing and is described here: http://www.firewing1.com/node/27
I've followed firewing's steps for translating the Catalog's Taxonomy terms but it didn't work for me.
So my first specific question is: how does one get UC's Catalog to show up (translated of course) when a user switches languages? Firewing's solution is one way (which doesn't seem to work for me), and Firewing also says that for his site he uses a view instead of his posted Taxonomy solution.
PS I've heard of the mythical Dokuro and he's even working on a Japanese'd Ubercart (UC). I'm eagerly awaiting it but it may be a while so I need to start and try to accomplish somethings by myself :)
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Thanks to firewing for helping me out on this. The problem was showing up because even though I had products in my Catalog, I had not translated any of them. I thought the Catalog would default to showing the English products if no Japanese translation was present; I was incorrect.
After I translated my products, the Catalog displayed correctly. Yippee!
Now I'll move on to my next bilingual Ubercart problem and will report back here if I run into any problems.
I will also try firewing's suggestion of using a View for the Catalog, though I have no experience with Views at all.
Here is a post that deals with ubercart
I might attend the meeting, still not sure if I can.
http://groups.drupal.org/node/39974
Would be nice to see you in
Would be nice to see you in the flesh! But might be a bit a of trip considering you're coming from Saitama :)
Maybe our talk of poutine will convince you? Not that we'll actually be offering any :(
I might be able to show
I might be able to show, but I just had a new baby boy not too long ago, so its kind of hard to travel a lot, but I go to Tokyo to work, but not near the meeting place.