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Christoph Polus	Tuesday 15 November 2005 8:46:35 am Hi I'm sort of evaluating eZ publish for a bigger project and I'm having several company-setup related questions. Thanks for your time ;) The company is located in multiple countries and they want to have a solid CMS with multi language support. The story is that they want to have several editors per country, which is easy with eZ's permission system. They also want to have a defined set of languages available per country. So in Germany for example you should be able to view the page in German and English, in Switzerland in German, English, Frensh and Italian etc. On the homepage it will be easy to define a set of available languages as I plan to do it with multiple site access configurations all pointing to the same DB with different locale settings and default starter pages. Although, having to define separate siteaccesses per country and language might get hard to keep control. 10 countries and about 3 languages per country = 30 site accesses already... Each country will have its own branch in the navigation structure. Now I wonder what is the best way to do something like this with eZ publish. Is there a doc on how to setup bigger corporate sites? Some sort of best practice? I haven't found a built-in option to let the Admin Interface only show you a set of languages specific to the country. All the languages will be available in the Admin Interface in every country, right? How is it with multibyte characters. Does eZ and the Online Editor handle Chinese, Arabic etc? Is there a concept for a kind of page override system? For example the company wants to have a set of pages provided by the headquarter. Countries can choose to use those pages or to create own content. AFAIK there's no out-ob-the-box mechanism for something like that in any tool I know. Was just wondering how this could be realised or if people need to recreate pages in the navigaton structure. What about performance. I saw some nice performance numbers and I know a PHP accelerator is recommended, anyway my experiments have shown on an Athlon 1.5GHz, Apache, Windows, MySQL, that a normale pages takes about 1sec to display fully in the browser. Local network. Template caches set to on, viewcache off. A prior customer with which I did a simple and small project didn't want to accept it so we had to setup static file caching, which is sad because of the dynamic nature of a CMS. Thanks for any comments on the above points. Chris.

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Tuesday 15 November 2005 8:46:35 am

I'm sort of evaluating eZ publish for a bigger project and I'm having several company-setup related questions. Thanks for your time ;)

The company is located in multiple countries and they want to have a solid CMS with multi language support.

The story is that they want to have several editors per country, which is easy with eZ's permission system. They also want to have a defined set of languages available per country. So in Germany for example you should be able to view the page in German and English, in Switzerland in German, English, Frensh and Italian etc. On the homepage it will be easy to define a set of available languages as I plan to do it with multiple site access configurations all pointing to the same DB with different locale settings and default starter pages. Although, having to define separate siteaccesses per country and language might get hard to keep control. 10 countries and about 3 languages per country = 30 site accesses already...

Each country will have its own branch in the navigation structure. Now I wonder what is the best way to do something like this with eZ publish. Is there a doc on how to setup bigger corporate sites? Some sort of best practice?

I haven't found a built-in option to let the Admin Interface only show you a set of languages specific to the country. All the languages will be available in the Admin Interface in every country, right?

How is it with multibyte characters. Does eZ and the Online Editor handle Chinese, Arabic etc?

Is there a concept for a kind of page override system? For example the company wants to have a set of pages provided by the headquarter. Countries can choose to use those pages or to create own content. AFAIK there's no out-ob-the-box mechanism for something like that in any tool I know. Was just wondering how this could be realised or if people need to recreate pages in the navigaton structure.

What about performance. I saw some nice performance numbers and I know a PHP accelerator is recommended, anyway my experiments have shown on an Athlon 1.5GHz, Apache, Windows, MySQL, that a normale pages takes about 1sec to display fully in the browser. Local network. Template caches set to on, viewcache off. A prior customer with which I did a simple and small project didn't want to accept it so we had to setup static file caching, which is sad because of the dynamic nature of a CMS.

Thanks for any comments on the above points.
Chris.