Hello everyone, i am building a site with SMF and tinyportal. the primary language will be english, but i would be interested in making it also german. does this work with TP? it would be nice if users could switch to english/german on the site, and then see the news and menus translated into this language. i know a joomla plugin that does the same, it would be really cool :)
thanks in advance!
It's certainly possible. The only thing that needs to be done is to have the english TP language files translated to German. Then you just add those files to the Themes/default/languages folder. Choose German as your language in your profile and voila!
Quote from: IchBin on August 12, 2010, 08:26:04 PM
It's certainly possible. The only thing that needs to be done is to have the english TP language files translated to German. Then you just add those files to the Themes/default/languages folder. Choose German as your language in your profile and voila!
then its also possible to translate the news? i mean, to write english version first and then add a german version of the news post?
What do you mean by "news"? Anything that is user posted, will have to be user translated. If it's not something built into the code of SMF/TP then it will have to be manually translated and posted by a user.
Quote from: IchBin on August 13, 2010, 04:35:58 PM
What do you mean by "news"? Anything that is user posted, will have to be user translated. If it's not something built into the code of SMF/TP then it will have to be manually translated and posted by a user.
yeah of couse, i didnt mean that it gets translated by itself... for example, currently we manage the news just by posting into a "news category" which is only available for admins. all posts in there appear on the frontpage. would it be possible to add a translation, and for example: when a user selects german, he sees the news in german instead of english?
if not, maybe its possible to create a new category "german news" and then only link the german news category to german user's frontpages?
lol a bit complicated, but i hope you understand what i mean.
thanks in advance
There are no settings for what you are asking for. There's nothing in TP to detect what language a person is using for allowing them to see certain articles. You'll have to devise some sort of work around if that is what you want.