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Can pMachine 2.4 be made multilingual?
Posted: 04 February 2007 07:47 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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I suppose the Title of this post says it all.  :-)

I have a huge investment in pMachine 2.4, so at this stage moving to Expression Engine is out of the question.

Perhaps in the future ... but there’s a huge learning curve, as well as justifying the cost/resources.  Please, rather than try to sell me on EE, please answer the previous quiz first, and then we’ll go from there.

Anyway, what comes to mind is providing a GUI of image flags for country of origin.  The users of the website would click, and the website would display in that language. I potentially will need to offer 8 languages {8!!!!}, so this is a steep quiz that I must get resolved in big hurry.

Thanks so much for your feedback, and help!

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Posted: 04 February 2007 08:25 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Raybo, pMachine 2.4x is no longer being updated. As to whether or not you can get it to be multilingual, that would depend on your coding skills.

You’d need to have weblogs for each one of the languages you were offering, as well as creating new pages that had content based on a particular language.

Do you have a link to the site in question? Is this a blog or a site?

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Posted: 04 February 2007 08:58 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Sue Crocker - 04 February 2007 08:25 AM

Raybo, pMachine 2.4x is no longer being updated.

Yes, I am already aware of this.

Sue Crocker - 04 February 2007 08:25 AM

As to whether or not you can get it to be multilingual, that would depend on your coding skills.

I can be pretty handy at times. grin

Sue Crocker - 04 February 2007 08:25 AM

You’d need to have weblogs for each one of the languages you were offering, as well as creating new pages that had content based on a particular language.

ick - no, that won’t work ... the idea here being “post once, publish many”

Sue Crocker - 04 February 2007 08:25 AM

Do you have a link to the site in question? Is this a blog or a site?

It’s not even developed yet.  That is why I posted here, thinking I could potentially use pmachine first, EE second, and only in that order.  It seems that EE would require serious work to pull this off as well, and since I have so much already invested in pMachine, it only made sense to check out possibilities using it first.


There is no way to do a post, and render that in different languages?  Surely, there must be a way.

Thanks again Sue

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Posted: 04 February 2007 09:01 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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I think you’d essentially be creating 8 separate sites, with no back-end way to relate any of the content together.  It’s sure not a project I’d be starting on with a CMS that’s no longer supported or in development.

The only good way to do multilingual content is by human translation.  EE allows for this reasonably with it’s unlimited custom fields - each post gets a fields for each language.  pMPro doesn’t have that capability.

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