I am quite new to this, having put up only two drupal sites.
I am trying to develop a site with two interfaces - one english and one french - but operating off the same database. The reason is that posters may wish to post in the language of their choice, and conversely be able to read all posts in either language. Will the following procedure work?
1) Create the english language site and the database
2) Copy all the Drupal code into a duplicate folder called, say, drupal French. It would have exactly the same connection to the mysql database
3) Retool the second site using the french translations for the interface, but looking exactly the same otherwise, and still connecting to the same database. ( I assume I can do this using the various translation files available through Drupal?
4) Put up a splash panel directing users to either the english or french folders. Users would then see the site interface, but their input would go to the same database and their content would also come from that database regardless of whether it was content submitted from either the English or french sites.
Does any one know if this would work? Some of the admin input (site name, mottos etc would be different in each site and if that is stored in the DB I suppose that could lead to some interesting conflicts).
At any rate any guidance thar can be provided to help me achieve what iIwant to do would be much appreciated. I see there are a number of Canadians actively involved in Drupal, and surely this problem has been solved before.