Multi Lingual Support

[dave_reach]

Hi,

I'm shortly going to be creating 2 websites using AbleCommerce, both of which need to have multi-lingual support. I know this isn't supported in Able, and if it was my call i'd probably go down the bespoke-website route - however the client is expecting to see the AbleCommerce backend and so i'm going to attempt to adapt AC7 to handle multiple languages.

Has anyone had any experience in this?

Currently, I think I shall attempt to have data stored in the database like this;

ac_Products.Description
[lang=en]Yes, sometimes[/lang]
[lang=fr]Oui, parfois[/lang]
[lang=ge]Ja, manchmal[/lang]
[lang=sp]Sí a veces[/lang]

And then, in the admin panel have 4 textboxes one for each language for the field in question. Wherever the data is displayed, just use a session variable to identify which language I am displaying and then use regex to pull out the correct data.

It's far from an elegant solution, but I believe it will give me what I need in the shortest amount of time, but i'd be interested to see what other people think - or if they've done this before using AC7.

Thanks,
Dave.

[m_plugables]

As AbleCommerce 7 is developed in ASP.NET 2.0. You should better first have a look that how to create Multi Lingual applications in ASP.NET 2.0.

[dave_reach]

Thanks, I will look in to that.

Dave