Hello,
I have multiple languages on my site (right now just English and
French). English is the default layouts and views. French is a theme
called 'french'. Sometimes I apply other themes for clients, so I
create themes and just override the views I want. The problem is, for
a french language site, if a themed view file doesn't exist it
defaults back to English. I want the French sites (identified by a
language_id field in the database) to default to the 'french' theme if
the theme file isn't found.
I've considered a couple of ways to do this:
1.
Put in my app_controller - where themes are applied:
if (file_exists('/views/themed/theme_name/'.$this-
>params['action'].'.ctp') {
$this->theme = 'theme_name';
} else {
if ($language_id==2) {
$this->theme = 'french'
}
}
This solution is ok, but I'm not crazy about it as I'm probably
duplicating functionality from cakes core classes.
2.
Ditch themes for languages and create multi-language view files
(English and French are identical except for text being translated -
same stylesheets). Also not crazy about this, I like my clean view
files with very little PHP in them.
Does the community have any better suggestions to handle Language
switching?
Thanks in advance.
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