Most of us in Web Dev are familiar with making CMS based websites, but adding languages is a very occasional task. The good news is that multiple languages don’t have to be very hard, but the bad news is that each language added increases the content management task’s complexity, and done poorly translations are a budget killer.
Continue reading “16 Tips for Multi-Language Websites”
Internationalized (i18n) Admin Generator CRUD’s in Symfony 1.2.9 + Doctrine
I was having some trouble finding documentation on how to i18n generated CRUD’s, so once I figured (most) of it out I thought I’d share it
The Example Application
Since I have to create a feature in my one of my current work projects to store random bits of content, like privacy policies and such, in multiple languages. I thought I’d double dip and use that for this example. I’m calling the feature content blocks. It will have a backend CRUD that will facilitate translations. The UI I needed was to have the default language show up as well as one of the many languages this information would be translated into. My app has the possibility of having more than 20 language options so putting them all in the CRUD at once was unreasonable. Continue reading “Internationalized (i18n) Admin Generator CRUD’s in Symfony 1.2.9 + Doctrine”