building multilingual sites with drupal 7

Building Multilingual Websiteswith Drupal 7

Wednesday, 11 January, 12

About Me

Suzanne Kennedy

Front-end Developer

Co-founder of Evolving Web in Montreal

evolvingweb.ca

@suzanne_kennedy

With Drupal, you can build:

• Foreign Language Site

• Multilingual Site

• Multilingual Site with Translation

Languages + Drupal

Foreign language site:

• Locale

Multilingual site

• Internationalization (i18n)

Multilingual site with translation:

• Content Translation (Nodes)

• Entity Translation (Fields)

Languages + Drupal

Questions before you start

• Is content symmetric across languages?

• How is untranslated content treated?

• Is language associated with location/region?

• How will the content/UI be translated?

• What is the default language of the site?

Symmetric Content

Asymmetric Content

Half-Symmetric Content

Untranslated Content

Does Language = Region

Translation Workflow

Types of Text to Translate

What Gets Translated?

Variables

Text from Modules

User-Entered Text Settings

Content: Nodes

Content: Entities

Text Groups

Setting up a Multilingual Website

Installing LanguagesConfiguration > Regional & language > Languages

Language Detection & SelectionConfiguration > Regional & language > Languages > Detection and Selection

Types of UI Text

• Variables

• Built-in UI (provided by modules)

• Built-in UI (provided by you)

Variables

Selecting VariablesConfiguration > Regional & language > Multilingual Settings > Variables

Translating Variables

Non-Text Variables

TranslatingText Strings from Code

Text Strings from Code

Text Strings from CodeConfiguration > Regional & language > Translation Interface > Translate

Text Strings from Code

Translating User-entered Strings

User-entered Strings

User-entered StringsConfiguration > Regional & language > Translation Interface > Translate

Translating Content

• New node for each translation

• Nodes are mapped together

• Uses the Content Translation module (core)

Node Translation

Translating a Node

• Translation of fields instead of nodes

• Entity Translation module (contrib) provides the UI

• Fields are translatable in core

Field-Level Translation

Example: Products

Example: Issues

Setting up Field Translation

Adding a Translation

Field Translation UI

Translating the Title

Enabling Language Switcher

Comment Filtering

Translate Other Entities

Configure Entity Translation

Translate Users

Synchronize Translations

Views Translation Filters

Unfiltered View

Adding a Filter

Filtered Views

Translating Other Elements

• Blocks

• Field elements (i.e. help text, default values, options)

• Menu items

• Taxonomy terms

• Paths

Other Elements to Translate

Blocks

Block Translation

• Translate custom blocks

• Uses the Block Translation module in the i18n suite

• Allows you to target blocks for certain languages

Block Translation

Block Translation UI

Blocks Per Language

Field Translation(translating field settings)

Field Translation

• Translating field settings (label, help text, default text)

• Uses the Field Translation module in the i18n suite

• Only translates core field settings (not date fields, file fields, etc.)

Field Translation

Menu Items

Menu Translation

• Allows you to translate menu items OR target a menu at a single language

• Uses Menu Translation module in the i18n suite

Menu Translation

Menu Options:

• Fixed Language

• Translate and Localize

Menu items

• Linked to nodes

• Translate custom menu items

Menu Translation

Taxonomy

Options per Vocabulary

Translating a Term

Other Multilingual Modules

Localization Update

Localization Client

Translation Overview

Challenges

• Choosing contributed modules

• Translating custom elements (Webforms)

• Multilingual audiences

• Improve Translation UI

• Out-sourced translation workflows

• Keeping track of UI strings to translate

What’s Next?

D8 Multilingual Initiative

Learn More

Learn Moreevolvingweb.ca/training

ResourcesDocumentation on drupal.orghttp://drupal.org/documentation/multilingual

My Blog Posts about D7 Multilingualhttp://evolvingweb.ca/story/drupal-7-multilingual-whats-new-i18nhttp://evolvingweb.ca/story/content-translation-drupal-7

Gabor Hojtsy's Posts about Multilingual D7http://hojtsy.hu/blog/2011-jan-19/drupal-7039s-new-multilingual-systems-part-1-basics

Presentation at DrupalCon Londonhttp://london2011.drupal.org/conference/sessions/multilingual-drupal-solutions-use-cases-and-modules

Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative (with Video)http://drupal.org/node/1260534

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