We are looking for a way to publish articles in different languages, including differences in writing direction ( RTL/LTR ) and of course character sets. The maintainer of the current site works with Mambo/Joomla, but has already found severe restrictions in terms of extensibility. A similar question has already been asked, but I will add feature and system requirements. Feature-wise, we need the following functionality: CMS standard features (two-stage publishing, permissions, different publishing mechanisms …) In addition to standard categorization, articles should have a language meta attribute It should be possible to provide a single article in one or more languages Links between articles should indicate the language of the target article, if it does not match the language of the source article. It should be possible to link directly to an article published in a certain language (e.g. mysite.com/article/23423/my-cool-title?lang=ar ). Authors should have some kind of indication of their language capabilities At the level of system requirements, we have thought of the following alternatives: Standard PHP/MySQL on Apache (LAMP) Google App Engine (preferred django) We are looking for a complete CMS, that can easily be extended and administrated, or a framework that covers most of the functionality. Please consider that we have already read through the answers on the previously mentioned question . Thank you, Kariem

Drupal could very easily meet your needs on the LAMP stack. As of Drupal 6 almost everything you need is available. You can have: Multi stage publishing and workflow with the contributed Workflow module New content can be tagged in a specific language, or created as language neutral I don't know if it would be possible to have the CMS automatically list the target language of a link, but it shouldn't be hard with a few lines of code to add a filter something like [link: article ID or name] to insert a link to the other article that would list the language of the link target linking to a specific language/translation of an article is no problem, most folks set that up with path prefixing in Drupal, so an english article would be at example.com/en/article/path and say french at example.com/fr/article/path

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Kariem

Reputation: 4913

Complete CMS (or framework for CMS) with i18n support

We are looking for a way to publish articles in different languages, including differences in writing direction (RTL/LTR) and of course character sets. The maintainer of the current site works with Mambo/Joomla, but has already found severe restrictions in terms of extensibility.

A similar question has already been asked, but I will add feature and system requirements.

Feature-wise, we need the following functionality:

CMS standard features (two-stage publishing, permissions, different publishing mechanisms …)
In addition to standard categorization, articles should have a language meta attribute
It should be possible to provide a single article in one or more languages
- Links between articles should indicate the language of the target article, if it does not match the language of the source article.
- It should be possible to link directly to an article published in a certain language (e.g. mysite.com/article/23423/my-cool-title?lang=ar).
Authors should have some kind of indication of their language capabilities

At the level of system requirements, we have thought of the following alternatives:

Standard PHP/MySQL on Apache (LAMP)
Google App Engine (preferred django)

We are looking for a complete CMS, that can easily be extended and administrated, or a framework that covers most of the functionality. Please consider that we have already read through the answers on the previously mentioned question.

Thank you,

Kariem

Upvotes: 2

Answers (5)

kimus

Reputation: 61

Checkout django-blocks. Has multi-language Menu, Flatpages and even has a simple Shopping Cart!!

Upvotes: 0

Mikey P

Reputation: 96

Drupal could very easily meet your needs on the LAMP stack. As of Drupal 6 almost everything you need is available. You can have:

Multi stage publishing and workflow with the contributed Workflow module
New content can be tagged in a specific language, or created as language neutral
I don't know if it would be possible to have the CMS automatically list the target language of a link, but it shouldn't be hard with a few lines of code to add a filter something like [link: article ID or name] to insert a link to the other article that would list the language of the link target
linking to a specific language/translation of an article is no problem, most folks set that up with path prefixing in Drupal, so an english article would be at example.com/en/article/path and say french at example.com/fr/article/path

Upvotes: 3