In one of our company sites we are using a bit different approach: using a session variable saving the language and using xslts and xslt-extensions to get the values. If you want I can give you the code at monday.

btw: we are using v4 at this site without problems.

Thomas

Thanks for the answer. I've realized that what I need is to get the <umbraco:Item field="MainContent" runat="server"></umbraco:Item> to recognize the localized aliases. The problem is that I have the content in RichText fields that often will contain a mixture of text and UserControl-macros. I've tried to use an xslt-macro instead of the umbraco:Item-tag to extract the content, but when I do that the UserControl-macros are not executed, just rendered as macro-tags to the browser. If you think you have a solution to this, I would be very interested.

Jon

I will come back to you at monday.

Cheer, Thomas

Ok, here is our approach.

First I created a class which is managing all the session stuff

public class mylib
{

  public static string GetSessionLanguage() 
    {
     string lang = "de";
       try
       {
         if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(Convert.ToString(HttpContext.Current.Session["lang"])))
              foreach (string s in HttpContext.Current.Request.UserLanguages)
               {
                 if (s.ToLower().StartsWith("de"))
                 {
                     lang = "de";
                      HttpContext.Current.Session["lang"] = lang;
                       return lang;
                  }
                 else
                  {
                     if (s.ToLower().StartsWith("en"))
                     {
                         lang = "en";
                          HttpContext.Current.Session["lang"] = lang;
                           return lang;
                      }
                 }
             }
         else
              lang = Convert.ToString(HttpContext.Current.Session["lang"]);
     }
     catch (Exception)
     {
         umbraco.BusinessLogic.Log.Add(umbraco.BusinessLogic.LogTypes.Error, -1, ex.Message + "\n\n" + ex.StackTrace);
     }
     return lang;
  }

   public static string GetDictionaryItemById(int id) 
   {
     umbraco.cms.businesslogic.language.Language umbracoLanguage = umbraco.cms.businesslogic.language.Language.GetByCultureCode(Library.GetSessionLanguage());
     umbraco.cms.businesslogic.Dictionary.DictionaryItem dic  = new umbraco.cms.businesslogic.Dictionary.DictionaryItem(id);
       return dic.Value(umbracoLanguage.id);
 }

   public static string GetDictionaryItemByKey(string key) 
  {
     umbraco.cms.businesslogic.language.Language umbracoLanguage = umbraco.cms.businesslogic.language.Language.GetByCultureCode(Library.GetSessionLanguage());
     umbraco.cms.businesslogic.Dictionary.DictionaryItem dic = new umbraco.cms.businesslogic.Dictionary.DictionaryItem(key);
       return dic.Value(umbracoLanguage.id);
 }
}    

We are using this mainly for different bodyText properties, but also for dictionary items.

Then I added the mylib to the xslt extensions config and created a new xslt:

<xsl:stylesheet 
  version="1.0" 
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
 xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" 
 xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library" 
  xmlns:mylib="urn:mylib"
   exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library mylib">
 
  <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
   <xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
 <xsl:param name="propertyname" select="/macro/propertyname"></xsl:param>
  <xsl:param name="lang" select="mylib:GetSessionLanguage()"></xsl:param>
   
  <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="$propertyname = ''">
                <xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/data [@alias=concat('bodyText_', $lang)]" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
           </xsl:when>
         <xsl:otherwise>
             <xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/data [@alias=concat($propertyname, $lang)]" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
         </xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:choose>
   </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

In the backend I have created for every node a tab "DE" and "EN" and on each tab an editor as property with the alias bodyText_de and bodyText_en.

Now I can get the values in the template via

<umbraco:Macro runat="server" Alias="GetContent" macroAlias="GetContent"></umbraco:Macro>

which calls the xslt above. You can see that I can optional set the property name so I am not only nailed to bodyText.

If there are questions leave a comment or (if I am not answering) mail me at th |at| thoehler |dot| com

hth,
Thomas

This code crashes on Umbraco 4.0.3. And wouldn't compile anyway since variables are accessed that don't exist. I fixed it, but hth should publish a working version...

@Richard  I'm trying to get a multilinugal 1:1 site to work; wondering how you did the same? And how do i call a macro with a parameter?

Boby

Try this:

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Text;

using System.Web;

using umbraco.cms;

using umbraco.cms.businesslogic;

using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.language;

namespace ANAR.umbraco

{

    public class Translations2

    {

        public static string GetSessionLanguage()

        {

            string lang = "tr";

            if (HttpContext.Current.Request.QueryString["lang"]!=null)

            {

                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Convert.ToString(HttpContext.Current.Request.QueryString["lang"])))

                {

                    HttpContext.Current.Session["lang"] = HttpContext.Current.Request.QueryString["lang"];

                }

            }

            try

            {

                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(Convert.ToString(HttpContext.Current.Session["lang"])))

                    foreach (string s in HttpContext.Current.Request.UserLanguages)

                    {

                        if (s.ToLower().StartsWith("tr"))

                        {

                            lang = "tr";

                            HttpContext.Current.Session["lang"] = lang;

                            return lang;

                        }

                        else

                        {

                            if (s.ToLower().StartsWith("en"))

                            {

                                lang = "en";

                                HttpContext.Current.Session["lang"] = lang;

                                return lang;

                            }

                        }

                    }

                else

                    lang = Convert.ToString(HttpContext.Current.Session["lang"]);

            }

            catch (Exception)

            {

                //umbraco.BusinessLogic.Log.Add(umbraco.BusinessLogic.LogTypes.Error, -1, ex.Message + "\n\n" + ex.StackTrace);

            }

            return lang;

        }

        public static string GetDictionaryItemById(int id)

        {

            Language umbracoLanguage = Language.GetByCultureCode(GetSessionLanguage());

            Dictionary.DictionaryItem dic = new Dictionary.DictionaryItem(id);

            return dic.Value(umbracoLanguage.id);

        }

        public static string GetDictionaryItemByKey(string key)

        {

            Language umbracoLanguage = Language.GetByCultureCode(GetSessionLanguage());

            Dictionary.DictionaryItem dic = new Dictionary.DictionaryItem(key);

            return dic.Value(umbracoLanguage.id);

        }

    }

}

Forgot to post this:

Reference from MasterPage:

<umbraco:Macro runat="server" Alias="Translator2" propertyname="PageTitle_"  macroAlias="Translator2"></umbraco:Macro>

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