[ic] I would need some ideas in how to accomplish this multilingual project
Stefan Hornburg Racke
interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Tue May 7 03:31:02 2002
"Rene Hertell" <rene@hertell.com> writes:
> Hi list,
>
> I would need some advice or ideas in how to implement this...
>
> I'm starting to develop a multilingual site for our national
> sport-federation. The site would be containing news, time-schedules for
> courses and competitions, results from competitions, contact-lists,
> registration pages for competitors and organizers etc.. It should later
> contain a small shopping cart that would sell merchandise, books etc.
>
> I have also a few goals in how everything should look:
>
> - The URL should be as "clean" as possible. It should not contain any
> session-id:s counters etc.
No problem.
> - Everything except the templates, images, binaries etc. should be pulled
> from a database
No problem.
> - Minimal use of cookies etc.
IC cannot track the user session without IDs in session and without
cookies.
> - The older content should be cacheable by proxies (news-pages etc). I guess
> that by manipulating the Last-Modified tag would probably do the trick
Might be feasible with [tag op=header].
> - The URL should be somehow standard in each language, like this
> www.site.com/[L]competitions[/L]/2000/[L]results[/L]
> www.site.com/[L]news[/L]/1999/[L]December[/L]
> www.site.com/[L]news[/L]/[L]latest[/L]
> (what I mean with the [L]-tags is that these parts of the URL should be in
> respective language)
Can easily be done with an ActionMap, e.g.:
ActionMap Catalog <<EOR
sub {
my ($action, $class, $what, $spec) = split ('/', shift);
$CGI->{mv_like_field} = 'category';
$class = 'CDROM' if $class eq 'DVD';
if ($class eq 'CDROM' || $class eq 'Video') {
if ($what eq 'Producer') {
$CGI->{mv_like_field} = 'producer';
} elsif ($what eq 'Star') {
$CGI->{mv_like_field} = 'category3';
}
} else {
# other categories have only one level of qualification
$spec = $what;
$CGI->{mv_like_field} = 'category';
$class = 'Novelty' if $class eq 'Novelties';
}
$CGI->{mv_todo} = 'search';
$CGI->{mv_nextpage} = 'results_new';
$CGI->{mv_profile} = 'catalog';
$CGI->{mv_coordinate} = 1;
$CGI->{mv_search_field} = 'class';
$CGI->{mv_searchspec} = "$class";
$CGI->{mv_like_spec} = "%$spec";
$CGI->{mv_column_op} = "eq";
$CGI->{banner_title} = $spec;
$Tag->update('process');
return 1;
}
EOR
> - The maintenance of the content (bulletins, news) should be either
> controllable by a web-interface (or by maintaining a local database that
> would upload a tab-delimited file with fresh content...)
I suggest to build your own custom pages for that. IMHO table-editor
is a little bit clumsy for custom administration pages.
>
> The most desired thing would be that I could use the same physical html-page
> for all languages.
>
The localization features of IC are your friend.
>
> For the moment this seems to be quite a nightmare to accomplish, but I'm
> (for the moment) an optimist, and I'll try carry out as many of my own
> wishes as possible..
>
IC is a quite flexible and extensible, it depends more on your knowledge
and your fantasy to exploit it.
Ciao
Racke
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