Control language choice via URL? e.g., &uselang=en
Dear Sirs, Assume I am a mere user, not even logged in either. With MediaWiki, I can add &uselang=en to make much of the boilerplate of a page into English. Compare [radioscanningtw.jidanni.org]...
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I am afraid that there is no feature in Phorum that supports setting the language via the URL. It could perfectly well be implemented through a module I think (pick up the URL argument and either...
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You see I wanted to help my English speaking friend post a message on that site, but right from the start these is no way to make the phorum sign up page also in English -- even supposing he makes it...
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Fact is that almost all Phorum installations make use of only one language, which does not make a globally available language selector for anonymous users a very likely option for a future version. A...
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If you are able to code your own module, you could take a look at the work I did on my Drupal plugin for my External Authentication module. There I tied the Phorum language to the Drupal language...
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I get the idea that this site is not owned by jidanni, so writing a module probably wouldn't help here. Maybe I'm wrong, but he uses wording like "that site" instead of "my site".
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Indeed, not my site. Anyway, idea: the English strings can't be all that large, so always have them available for debugging at least. E.g., that way you phorum pros could easily navigate any phorum...
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Plus, find me one phorum where everybody is comfortable with just one language. The above Traditional Chinese phorum is getting more and more Simplified Chinese users. Etc. Etc. Sure, a pro...
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That's a simple one: [www.gitaar.net] I can assure you that everybody is comfortable with the Dutch that is spoken there. If there are people who would like to use the site in English or any other...
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