Hey,
Today I did a bunch of searching and reading to find what is the best
way to have flatpages presented in multiple languages. Flatpages
apparently don't support internationalization and I went down several
avenues looking for the recommended way, and finding various things
that appeared way over the top for my simple requirement - present the
translated version of my flat page according to the current
'django_language'.
So I thought I'd share it... (It's really only five lines added to
your templates, and links to the pages updated).
In my base template I have the usual forms for changing the languages,
which are presented as clickable flags. The addition is the next_input
block.
<div id="languages">
{% for lang in languages %}
<form action="/i18n/setlang/" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="language" value="{{lang.0}}"/>
{% block next_input %}
{% endblock %}
<input id="lang_{{lang.0}}"
type="image"
src="/images/{{ lang.0 }}.png"
alt="{{ lang.1 }}"/>
</form>
{% endfor %}
</div>
In my flatpage template which extends the base template I supply that
block, which supplies a input tag which supplies the next value for
the form.
{% block next_input %}
<input type="hidden" name="next" value="{{ flatpage.url|
slice:":-3" }}{{ lang.0 }}/"/>
{% endblock %}
The key is that the urls of the flatpages are as such...
/welcome/en/
/welcome/es/
/welcome/pt/
The form therefore, after going to /i18n/setlang, returns to the same
page, but in the new language by removing the trailing slash and
language code and replacing it with the new currently selected
language.
Click on the flags for non-flatpages works as normal.
And links to these flat pages within other templates are thus
supplied... (where 'language' is supplied by the view as the value of
'django_language' or an appropriate default if it's not yet been
selected, 'en' in my case).
<a href="/welcome/{{ language }}/">{% trans "Welcome" %}</a>
Hope this helps someone. It's extremely easy, does what I need, along
with the django internationalization, without installing anything
extra or getting complicated.
Cheers,
Nev
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