CiviCRM Community Forums (archive)

1. Is it possible to post an event in only one language? For example. How do I display Dutch events only on the Dutch pages of my site.

I think you might need to use some custom code here, and/or categorise your events by language (and display only events of a given category).

2. How can I make CiviCRM switch it's language together with the language of my Drupal site? I am using langue prefixed in Drupal. CiviCRM is now showing it's interface in CiviCRM's default language regardless of the language that is set by the Drupal user.

I don’t think this is possible in CiviCRM 2.2, but I’ll fix this for CiviCRM 3.0 – and if the fix is trivial, I’ll backport it so 2.2.9 (or 2.2.10) has this functionality.

Didn't anybody do that? That's the base necessity for multilanguage sites on drupal.

Hello, is this feature done ?

I try to sync the drupal language with the civicrm language but i don't find the solution.

I tried :

global $tsLocale;
global $language;
$tsLocale = ($language->language != 'en') ? 'en_US' : 'fr_FR'; // Why we must invert the test

in the civicrm_initialize() function and it works (partially) but not for profile added in the drupal user form (and it's what i need  )

(sorry for my bad english)

I’m sorry, I was very busy with my 3.1 issues before pushing 3.1.alpha1 out the door. I’ll look into this problem by the end of the week and fix for 3.0.3/3.1.

So I've just applied the patch http://fisheye2.atlassian.com/changelog/CiviCRM/?cs=25112 to my 3.0.2 version, but using the locale module's language switcher does not effectively change the CiviCRM locale. It moves from http://mydomain.ca/fr/civicrm to http://mydomain.ca/en/civicrm, changing the language of my menus but none of the CiviCRM stuff. Shouldn't it pick that up right away?

I've been considering writing a small module to do this by using hook_translation_link_alter(&$links, $path), and changing the links so that they invoked a function that would

• load CiviCRM
• do whatever processing deals with &lcMessages=fr_FR in a CiviCRM page, and then
• redirect to the appropriate language page.

But I haven't gone so far as to find what CiviCRM function to call.

I'm worried I'm repeating work you may have already done, Piotr, but want to contribute if there is still an issue here or just pick up what you have done in terms of a fix.

Cheers,
Joe

Adding the following code to drupal/civicrm.module fixes the language switching problem I had. It makes the Drupal locale module's language switching block work to change CiviCRM's as well as Drupal's locale.

I'll post as a patch shortly to JIRA.

function civicrm_translation_link_alter( &$links, $path ) {
    if ( ! civicrm_initialize( ) ) {
        return;
    }
   // an array of xx_YY locales
   static $locales = null;
   if ($locales === null) {
      require_once 'CRM/Core/I18n/PseudoConstant.php';
      $locales = array_keys(CRM_Core_I18n_PseudoConstant::languages());
      sort($locales);
   }

   // an array of xx to xx_YY mappings (naive, as pt_PT will trump pt_BR
   // and en_US will trump other English entries, but works in our case)
   static $prefixes = null;
   if ($prefixes === null) {
      foreach ($locales as $locale) {
         $prefixes[substr($locale, 0, 2)] = $locale;
      }
   }

   // modify the links so that an appropriate query string is added to them to cause
   // CiviCRM's locale to be updated
   // Take first CiviCRM locale that either matches Drupal’s xx_YY
   // or begins with Drupal’s xx (so Drupal’s pt_BR will return
   // CiviCRM’s pt_BR, while Drupal’s pt will return CiviCRM’s pt_PT)
   global $language;   
   foreach ( $links as $langkey => $link ) {
       if (in_array( $link['language']->language, $locales)) {
         $links[$langkey]['query'] =  array( 'lcMessages' => $link['language']->language);
      } elseif (in_array($link['language']->language, array_keys($prefixes))) {
         $links[$langkey]['query'] =  array( 'lcMessages' =>  $prefixes[$link['language']->language] );
      } else {
         drupal_set_message( t('CiviCRM does not have @lc locale enabled.', array('@lc' => $link['language']->language) ), 'warning' );
      }
   }

}

My pleasure.

Note that I've provided a slightly improved patch that will also retain the query string in the JIRA issue: http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-5493 (it's the Dec 7 3kb attachment).