Best practice for multilingual websites

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Greg Lakomy	Tuesday 02 December 2008 12:51:30 pm Hi, I'm starting a setup of a new site with multiple languages. So far no problems, I have a base ezwebin install with a selection of few languages. I've setup my site as an extension and added overrides for design and settings files. I would be interested in hearing any suggestions, tips or any other advice on setting up multilingual website. Thanks! Developer http://www.duoconsulting.com
Piotrek Karaś	Saturday 06 December 2008 11:57:11 pm Basically two approaches work for us: 1) <b>one structure, object translation</b>: for identical/similar structures (20% cases). 2) <b>separate structure subtrees for each language version</b>: for language versions that may differ or are managed by completely different groups of users (80% cases). Approach 1 works fine since the introduction of multilingual URLs and class translations, but is definitely much more demanding when it comes to end-users. -- Company: mediaSELF Sp. z o.o., http://www.mediaself.pl eZ references: http://ez.no/partners/worldwide_partners/mediaself eZ certified developer: http://ez.no/certification/verify/272585 eZ blog: http://ez.ryba.eu

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Tuesday 02 December 2008 12:51:30 pm

Hi,

I'm starting a setup of a new site with multiple languages. So far no problems, I have a base ezwebin install with a selection of few languages. I've setup my site as an extension and added overrides for design and settings files.
I would be interested in hearing any suggestions, tips or any other advice on setting up multilingual website.

Thanks!

Developer
http://www.duoconsulting.com

Piotrek Karaś

Saturday 06 December 2008 11:57:11 pm

Basically two approaches work for us:

1) <b>one structure, object translation</b>: for identical/similar structures (20% cases).
2) <b>separate structure subtrees for each language version</b>: for language versions that may differ or are managed by completely different groups of users (80% cases).

Approach 1 works fine since the introduction of multilingual URLs and class translations, but is definitely much more demanding when it comes to end-users.

--
Company: mediaSELF Sp. z o.o., http://www.mediaself.pl
eZ references: http://ez.no/partners/worldwide_partners/mediaself
eZ certified developer: http://ez.no/certification/verify/272585
eZ blog: http://ez.ryba.eu

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 30 2025 22:23:00
Script start
Timing:	Jan 30 2025 22:23:00
Module start 'layout'
Timing:	Jan 30 2025 22:23:00
Module start 'content'
Timing:	Jan 30 2025 22:23:00
Module end 'content'
Timing:	Jan 30 2025 22:23:00
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime	0.0255 sec
Peak memory usage	4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries	3

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0056	588.2266	151.2109
Module start 'layout'	0.0057	0.0039	739.4375	220.6875
Module start 'content'	0.0096	0.0144	960.1250	997.7734
Module end 'content'	0.0240	0.0014	1,957.8984	29.9922
Script end	0.0255		1,987.8906

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0026	10.3648	14	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0011	4.3160	14	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0007	2.7206	1	0.0007
Mysqli_queries	0.0028	11.0620	3	0.0009
Looping result	0.0000	0.0430	1	0.0000
Template Total	0.0010	4.0	1	0.0010
Template load	0.0008	3.1403	1	0.0008
Template processing	0.0002	0.8234	1	0.0002
Override
Cache load	0.0005	2.0888	1	0.0005
General
dbfile	0.0024	9.5535	8	0.0003
String conversion	0.0000	0.0355	4	0.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

Templates used to render the page:

Usage	Requested template	Template	Template loaded	Edit	Override
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 1 Number of unique templates used: 1

Time used to render debug report: 0.0002 secs