Hi,
I'm new to Drupal 7 and i would like to be sure to understand the basic steps to have a multilingual website.
I would like to propose to visitors: english, french, spanish website content.
it means menu, posts, contents, blocks, ... well everything in 3 different languages on frontend.
Backend can stay in english.
When i read the post (http://drupal.org/documentation/multilingual), i understood the following thing:
1. i must install "Locale module for user interface elements"
2. i must install "Content Translation or Entity Translation"
what is not clear...at least for me, it's SHOULD i install:
3. "the Internationalization package of modules" ?
4. and "the Localization Update module" ?
are modules/packages 3. and 4. not the same as 1. and 2. ?
Later i would like to implement a e-commerce solution under drupal 7, so this multilingual step is only the 1st step.
thank a lot for your help and feedback.
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no they aren't the same as 1 & 2.
3 is: http://drupal.org/project/i18n
4 is: http://drupal.org/project/l10n_update
I recently did my first
I recently did my first multilingual site in Drupal (Have done a ton of english only). I found this tutorial http://drupal.org/node/1268692 to be dead simple. Follow it verbatim and you'll be up and running in less than an hour.
Till now i was not able to
Till now i was not able to display a simple (ul or combobox) with languages available...whereas i setup 3 languages.
how can i have such possibility on frontend side (i mean where my visitors can select the language they want to have) ?
thx
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http://drupal.org/project/languageicons = one method.
As mentioned in that step by
As mentioned in that step by step linked to above...
THis will allow your users to switch to different languages
However, I would suggest using http://drupal.org/project/lang_dropdown instead as you have more than two languages and putting them in a dropdown will take up much less space.