Multilingual jforum Site

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hello,

I want to use jforum on a multilingual portal (www.afromix.org). The site is available in 4 language : French, English, Spanish and Portuguese.

For the forums, I want to keep 4 differents sections : one for each language (see http://forum.afromix.org/en/ ).

Here is what I have done so far (jforum 2.1.4 on tomcat under macosx)

I have replicated the jforum files in 4 webapps (one for each language).
/fr/ for french
/en/ for english
/es/ for spanish
/pt/ for portuguese

In each context, I have edited the WEB-INF/config/jforum-custom.conf to use the correct language and context
for example for english
i18n.board.default=en_US
forum.link=http\://forum.afromix.org/en/
homepage.link=http\://forum.afromix.org/en

I have created various category (one for each language) and in the template file templates/default/forum_list.htm i have added a filter to only show forums in the "good" language

in /fr/templates/default/forum_list.htm
<!-- START FORUM LISTING -->
<#list allCategories as category>
<#if ((category.id = 1) || (category.id = 4) || (category.id = 7))>

in /en/templates/default/forum_list.htm
<!-- START FORUM LISTING -->
<#list allCategories as category>
<#if ((category.id = 2) || (category.id = 5) || (category.id = 8))>

My questions are :
1) is it the "right way" to do it ???

2) what libraries can I share safely between the 4 web apps = what libraries can i put in the shared/lib on tomcat ?

3) any other ideas ??

--fabrice gaillard

[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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Well, if you want to only show forums for a specific language, here's how I would do that (without changing the Java code)

Of course, it depends of the level of integration you want - the following suggestion is a bit less "dynamic" than yours, but, on the other hand, much easier to maintain:

1) First, I would say users to change their languages to one of the four supported in his profile page. The board could run in a default language, like English - but anyway, you can always put a step on front of it to force the user to choose the language.

2) When listing Categories / forums, a code like the follows does the job:

<#if I18n.getUserLanguage() == "fr_FR">
    French forums
<#elseif ....>
</#if>

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]