Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Dynamic Translation (long)

[Ulf H. <U1...@ul...>]

Matthew,

now this all makes a lot of sense. Please don't get me wrong: I am not 
trying to question your activities, or the technology that you selected. 
I guess what I tried to to is to make the existing things work (i.e. 
circumvent some of the major flaws of the existing lang module). I have 
to admit that I did not work with branches yet as did did not see / 
understand the additional worlds that are opened by using this feature. 
I will dig more into it in order to clarify a couple of questions that 
still remain open to me (such as: can different branches operate from 
the same mysql-DB, maybe distiguished by prefixes? This might be 
interesting for users who have to pay their hosters for every additional 
DB...).

If I understood you correctly, you are working on a solution that would 
present a comprehensive site to the user, no matter what branch he is 
looking at. If a part of the content would not be translated yet, the 
navigation would seamlessly integrate the content in the default 
language. Of course, highly interactive content, such as forum postings 
or comments, would not be dynamically translated - that part we can 
leave to babelfish et al. [note to Tony: Please distinguish btw. 
translating dynamic content and dynamically translating content... ;) ].

--> This would be exactly what I would be looking for (and what I am 
looking to see on the phpws home page as well).

So it looks like I have to do nothing than to sit and wait..... ;) Is 
there anything I can do to help? What are you going to offer to people 
who are currently using the lang mod in connection with say pagemaster, 
article manager or blockmaker? Will migration tools be provided?

I wonder what could be done to avoid mis-leading discussion like this 
(to clarify: Obviously I am the one who mis-lead...). An overview on 
existing models, their dev teams and a more transparant roadmap might 
save lots of dev and discussion time on all sides. I shall stand ready 
once capacities for getting this organized are needed.

Cheers, and greetings from Munich

Ulf





Matthew McNaney wrote:

>>Oooh. Can we have the other way round as well so that branches can 
>>promote the content up to the hub? Ideally allowing say the 
>>announcement summary on the hub to click through to the branch site for 
>>the full article?
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>Ya I would like that as well. It is planned :)
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