Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites. A hands-on, practical guide for configuring your Drupal 7 website to handle all languages for your site users with this b

Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites. A hands-on, practical guide for configuring your Drupal 7 website to handle all languages for your site users with this b - Opis

Drupal is one of the most powerful and popular PHP Content Management Systems at the moment. By making your site multilingual, you are opening the door to a whole new user base, in as many countries as you like. Use the localization and internationalization features of Drupal 7 to automatically detect where your site users are visiting from and select the content appropriate to them. The world is your oyster!Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites guides you through the wild world of localization and internationalization with practical and real-world exercises that you can apply to your own website. You will go from theory to practice and acquire the skills you need to make a user-friendly Drupal 7 site that supports multiple languages.You will follow focused chapter exercises to add multiple-language support for your user interface, content, and various parts of your site's configuration such as system variables, menus, and blocks.The latter half of the book fills in the details with step-by-step exercises for localizing the interface, the content, and the configuration. Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites will give you the knowledge and the skills necessary to configure your site to support your language needs. Spis treści:
Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites
Table of Contents
Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
Why Subscribe?
Free Access for Packt account holders
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this (...) więcej book
Who this book is for
Before you start
Exercise workflow tips
Working with modules
Extra topics
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Multilingual Overview, Use Cases, and Modules
Considerations and use cases
Different types of language support
Some things to think about
Example use cases
Simple blog site
Consulting company site
E-commerce site
Our demo site
Multilingual Drupal overview
Speaking the same language... terminology
Pieces of the multilingual puzzle
Interface
Content
Configuration
A look at the modules
Summary
2. Setting up the Basics: Languages, UI Translation, and System Settings
Getting up and running

Using your own site
Using the demo site
Roles, users, and permissions
Working with languages
Adding languages with the Locale module
Detecting languages
URL
Session
User
Browser
Default
Detection method order
Our choice
Switching between languages
Interface and string translations
Translating the interface
Automatic translation updates
Adding and fixing interface translations
Contributing translations back to the community
Translating English strings
Modifying the settings.php file
Using the String Overrides module
Creating a custom English language
Reusing custom translated strings
General system configuration
Updating regional settings
Date and time formats
Translating site variables
Customizing the contact form
Summary
3. Working with Content
Nodes
Enabling multilingual support
Node translation model
Configuring node translation
Content type settings
Node display options
New and existing translations
Synchronizing shared fields
Extra content type options
Field translation model
Configuring field translation
Entity settings
Content type settings
Translating content
Using the language switcher
Non-node entities
Comments
Language assignment
Comment display
Users
Taxonomy terms
Custom entities
Node listing and search pages
Home page
Taxonomy term pages
Search
Summary
4. Configuring Blocks, Menus, Taxonomy, and Views
Blocks
Language-specific blocks
Translating blocks
Blocks provided by modules
Menus
Language-specific menus
Multilingual menus
Node pages
Pages with the same link
Pages with different links
Taxonomy terms
Taxonomy translation module
Language-independent terms
Language-specific terms
Localized terms
Mixed-language vocabulary
Updating the field label
Views
Multilingual views
Language-specific views
Nodes using field translation
Non-node views
Comments
Taxonomy terms
Users
Views text
Summary
5. Panels, SEO, and More!
Panels
Panel panes
Language-specific panel pages
SEO
Multilingual and international SEO
Friendly URLs
Removing special characters from path aliases
Page title and meta tags
Meta Tags module
Meta Tags Quick module
Page Title module
Home page optimization
Duplicate pages
Translation management and workflow
Who can translate?
Content administration
Contributed modules
Lingotek Collaborative Translation module
Translation Management Tool module
Custom workflow
Theming and module development
RTL support
Interface and content languages
Custom CSS
String translation functions
Summary
A. Modules, Resources, and Getting Involved
Modules used in the book
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Module usage
More multilingual modules
Interface
Content
Configuration
Admin tools
Finding multilingual modules
Community resources
Groups, forums, and IRC
Documentation and guides
Articles, videos, and more
Getting involved
Whats up for Drupal 8?
Want more?
Index O autorze: Kristen Pol grew up the youngest sister to five brothers in a small town in rural Central California. After high school and a few community colleges, Kristen earned a BA degree in mathematics and physics at UC Santa Cruz in 1994 and an MSEE at Stanford University in 1995. After college, Kristen worked as a Systems Engineer at Hewlett Packard and then as a Java application architect at a web consulting company in downtown Santa Cruz, California, during the dot-com boom. Kristen started her own software business in 2001. Initially, she focused on Java applications, but, in 2004, Drupal changed her life. Starting with version 4, Kristen got hooked on Drupal development and now she focuses pretty much exclusively on Drupal and search engine optimization (SEO). Kristen works with a wide variety of clients throughout North America. She enjoys working on challenging websites that require custom programming. Some of her more notable Drupal projects include boomboomcards.com (social kindness game), naturebridge.org (non-profit bringing kids to nature), thesoundpost.com (Canadian classical instrument shop), and boomerangproject.com (school transition programs). Kristen is very active in the Drupal community. She has authored contributed modules including Featured Content and SEO Friend, regularly attends the Santa Cruz Drupal user group, improves drupal.org documentation, gives talks at Drupal camps and meetings, and helps out on the Drupal forums and issue queues. When she's not doing Drupal, Kristen enjoys photography, travel, hiking, and spending time with her husband and two sons in beautiful Santa Cruz. Feel free to contact Kristen at kristen.org/contact. mniej