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mapping domains in multilingual version
October 28, 2009, 04:50:33 am
I would like to configure a multilingual installation of CiviCRM to support CiviEvent. The use case is ticket sales for events for an organization that mirrors its web presence in French and English on two domains that we'll call francais.ca and english.ca. So the CiviCRM interface and event descriptions should be served in English or French depending on the domain, but with common reporting for ticket sales, etc.

Is the mirroring of event description content in more than one language supported at present? If so, what would be the best way to configure a mirrored French and English site served at francaise.ca and english.ca? Should we set up Apache rewrite rules so that
english.ca > english.ca/en
francais.ca > english.ca/fr

Or do we have to do two sites, and manual work after the fact to integrate sales for each event?

The MySQL 5.1 requirement can be met, but I've not attempted multi-lingual work since it was supported in core in 2.1 I believe.

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Re: mapping domains in multilingual version
October 28, 2009, 07:59:18 am
Quote from: JoeMurray on October 28, 2009, 04:50:33 am
I would like to configure a multilingual installation of CiviCRM to support CiviEvent. The use case is ticket sales for events for an organization that mirrors its web presence in French and English on two domains that we'll call francais.ca and english.ca. So the CiviCRM interface and event descriptions should be served in English or French depending on the domain, but with common reporting for ticket sales, etc.

Ok, this should be doable, although might require a bit of hacking to set the right language based on the domain.

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Is the mirroring of event description content in more than one language supported at present?

Yes, the civicrm_event.description database field is marked as localisable in our schema, which means it’s multilingual in multilingual installs.

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If so, what would be the best way to configure a mirrored French and English site served at francaise.ca and english.ca? Should we set up Apache rewrite rules so that
english.ca > english.ca/en
francais.ca > english.ca/fr

Or do we have to do two sites, and manual work after the fact to integrate sales for each event?

You definitely should do one site. If you’re not using Drupal or Joomla! (and so can’t inherit their language choice), the rewrite rule should be adding …&lcMessages=xx_YY to the end of the rewritten URLs to make sure the language choice is reflected in CiviCRM.
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Re: mapping domains in multilingual version
October 28, 2009, 03:58:40 pm
Thanks, Piotr!

It seems I may be doing a Drupal multi-lingual install soon as well.

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