Multi-lingual website using subsites
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This tutorial explains how to create a multi-lingual website through the use of subsites.
Note: This tutorial assumes that you have basic knowledge of how to use Lanius CMS and that you are able to configure all necessary components, modules or plugins.
Main site setup
- Create a PHP file, for example called curpage.php, with the following content:
<?php if(!defined('_VALID')){header('Status: 404 Not Found');die;}
$lang = in_raw('lang', $_GET, '', 2); ?>
<a href="<?php echo $lang.'/'.CMSRequest::URI());?>">
<img width="16" height="11" src="lang/<?php echo $lang; ?>/flag.png" border="0" alt="<?php
echo strtoupper($lang); ?>" /></a>
Save it in the website root directory.
- Install language packages for all languages that you are going to support (this is not mandatory but will make subsites read better)
- Create a mod_wrapper module for each subsite that you will have and name it properly (i.e. English Translation)
- Choose a position, access group, and select Show on all menu instances
- For the relative url field put in curpage.php?lang=en
- For the Show Title field choose no
- For the include mode field select Include as a PHP Script
Repeat the creation of mod_wrapper modules for all subsites that you are going to create, varying curpage.php?lang=en. For example:
- curpage.php?lang=de for German
- curpage.php?lang=it for Italian
- curpage.php?lang=gr for Greek
See a list of language identifiers here.
Subsites setup
These are the steps to be performed for each subsite (English, Language1, Language2 etc):
- Create a subsite (do not create it as freshly installed and have it offline) and name it en (we will use canonical language identifiers, see above)
- Translate content items in the subsite to English (this will be the publicly available English translation of your website)
- Publish the subsite
Finished, you now have a multi-lingual website!
