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Naru 3 posts 23 karma points

Mar 13, 2011 @ 23:07

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Create a multilingual site using Umbraco

Hello,

I've been looking into building a simple multilingual website using Umbraco. The main point is that I would not want to have different folders and pages for different languages. I am looking for the equivalent of what we can have in a basic .NET web application: unique web pages pages and several resource files (*.resx), where the pages contain keys, whose values can be determined at runtime dependening on the language the user chooses to view the application in.

I have already followed the video tutorial:
http://umbraco.com/help-and-support/video-tutorials/introduction-to-umbraco/developer-introduction/using-net-user-controls

So I know the resource files can be used... I just need a language selector, say a drop down list... I actually tried to make such a user control and add it side by side to my HelloWorld user control, but didn't work, as we cannot change the application's culture using a user control:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3209105/asp-net-changing-a-sites-culture-programmatically
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4876520/programmatically-set-culture-of-user-controls-in-asp-net

So I could put the language selector in the master page? What is the recommended approach? I've been searching about this topic, and found lots of references to the broken link:
http://our.umbraco.org/books/multilingual-11-sites ... It would be nice to read a bit about this topic before proceeding... If any one can provide me with any advice or references, I'd appreaciate it a lot.

Thanks in advance.

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Sherry Ann Hernandez 320 posts 344 karma points

Mar 14, 2011 @ 06:35

I use a global.asax to change the culture

 protected override void Application_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            base.Application_BeginRequest(sender, e);

            HttpCookie cookie = new HttpCookie("lang");

            if (Request.QueryString["lang"] != null)
            {
                String lang = Request.QueryString["lang"];

                cookie.Value = Request.QueryString["lang"];
                
                Response.Cookies.Add(cookie);
        
                Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo(lang);
                Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo(lang);
            }
            else if (Request.Cookies["lang"] != null )
            {
                cookie = Request.Cookies["lang"];
                Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo(cookie.Value);
                Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo(cookie.Value);
            }

            else
            {
                Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("en-US");
                Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("en-US");
            }

And then delete the one used by umbraco.

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Naru 3 posts 23 karma points

Mar 26, 2011 @ 23:34

Thank you Sherry for your suggestion and for sharing your code.

I ended up with a somewhat different appoach, an http module, but still used the cookies! I wasn't being able to get a compiled App_global.asax.dll (just the Global.asax) to replace the original one, so I ended up looking into Http Handlers and Http Modules, and created an Http Module with the cookie code in the Application_BeginRequestion function:

private void Application_BeginRequest(Object source, EventArgs e)
{            
           HttpCookie cookie = new HttpCookie("lang");
            if (Request.Cookies["lang"] != null)
            {
                cookie = Request.Cookies["lang"];
                Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo(cookie.Value);
                Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo(cookie.Value);
            }
}

Any advantages or disadvantages to one or other approach? So far it's working. Thanks!

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