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Topic: Multiple languages

Posted By: RBP Limited
Subject: Multiple languages
Date Posted: 05-November-2008 at 5:34am

Hi, is there a way to customise productCart to display the products and the productCart text in the language file in multiple languages?

Cheers

Wayne

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Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 05-November-2008 at 5:49am

Hi Wayne,
There's no built in method. It would be possible, with some customization (probably quite a small amount), to use two different "languages.asp" filesto get the site text to display in alternative languages, but getting the products to be displayed in two different languages would be much more tricky IMHO.

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Posted By: RBP Limited
Date Posted: 05-November-2008 at 6:46am

Thanks Hamish,

I thought that would be the case.

Cheers

Wayne.

Posted By: Erik @ Port City Web
Date Posted: 07-November-2008 at 12:24pm

Hi Wayne - Yes, it's possible to do this for multiple languages. We added Spanish and French for NovaFlex Group ( http://www.novaflex.com/ - http://www.novaflex.com/ ) a couple of months ago.

Regards,

Erik Crago

President and CEO

Port City Web, LLC

mailto:erik@portcityweb.com - - erik@portcityweb.com

http://www.portcityweb.com/ - - www.portcityweb.com

800-291-7147 ext 702

Posted By: RBP Limited
Date Posted: 07-November-2008 at 1:55pm

That's great Eric, How did you go about doing that, that's exactly what I'm ofter.

Any help would be great.

Cheers

Wayne.

Posted By: Erik @ Port City Web
Date Posted: 07-November-2008 at 2:08pm

Hi Wayne - We did it at the database level, as well as with the languages file so that it would scale for future languages. We modified the public side of the site to display the language the customer selects. Then we used a cookie to set the language. We also changed the admin pages so that translators could login and modify their language content, or the main admin can copy and paste in the translated content.

We also proposed that the website try to detect the language that the person has set (like Spanish, German, etc) for their computer/browser and automatically serve that language unless they change it. We can also do a session cookie should their browser not accept client cookies. The key is to NOT use machine translated language, as it's not reliable.

If you would like to talk about this over the phone, feel free to call us at 800-291-7147. You can dial extension 2 and Amy will talk to you about this some more. My VP of Development and I can jump in the call if necessary too.

Thanks,
Erik

Posted By: rkeyes
Date Posted: 12-February-2009 at 2:14pm

hi Erik,

I am looking for a similar solution for having two languages on our site.

currently, we have SKU numbers for each product in french or english. Would your solution, when we switch from English to French (for example), change all the products in the store to feature only the French SKUs? Or does it just change the text on the same items?

Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 12-February-2009 at 2:33pm

You may want to look at how Anna at http://www.jewel.se - www.jewel.se has dealt with the multi-language issue - she simply runs two sites. However, she hired Mark Shipp ( mailto:mark@cognecy.com - mark@cognecy.com ) to perform a database revision that allows the two stores to share inventory levels.

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Posted By: Erik @ Port City Web
Date Posted: 12-February-2009 at 3:06pm

Hi rkeyes – Our solution doesn’t require duplicate products/sku's in the database. If, however, you wish to have duplicate products, we could work with that. The way we did it is to have 1 sku per product, but have multiple languages for that product.

You can check out the site I’m referencing at http://www.novaflex.com/ - http://www.novaflex.com/

Thanks,
Erik