This bolt.cm extension handles translation of content within bolt. It is recommended to be used in combination with the Labels extension.
Warning: the old (Bolt 3.0) versions of this extension are not compatible with the Bolt 3.1+ version
- Login to your Bolt installation
- Go to "Extend" or "Extras > Extend"
- Type
translate
into the input field - Click on the extension name
- Click on "Browse Versions"
- Click on "Install This Version" on the latest stable version
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Modify the
locales
block in the extension configuration (which you can find under theExtend
screen in bolt's backend) to suit your needs. The first one is the default locale and must be the same as bolts own locale which you've set in bolts' main config.yml:locales: en_GB: label: English slug: en de_AT: label: Deutsch slug: de
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Add the locale field to the contenttypes you want translated in
contenttypes.yml
:pages: name: Pages slug: pages singular_name: Page singular_slug: page fields: locale: type: locale group: content [...]
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Add the
is_translateable
argument to all fields you want to be translatable. To translate templatefields you simply tag the templateselect withis_translateable
and all the templatefields will be translateable.[...] title: type: text class: large group: content is_translateable: true [...]
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Add the hidden fields to all the contenttypes that have translateable fields, two for each locale: one called
your_localedata
and one calledyour_localeslug
. So for the abovelocales
example your would put:[...] dedata: type: hidden deslug: type: hidden index: true endata: type: hidden enslug: type: hidden index: true [...]
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Use the
localeswitcher
twig-function to render a locale switcher in your theme:{{ localeswitcher() }}
or{{ localeswitcher(template = '_my_localeswitcher_template.twig') }}
if you want to use a custom template. The base template being used is '_localeswitcher.twig'.The {{ localeswitcher }} function generates an unordered list with the labels of the languages you've set in the config file.
If you only want to a custom class to the unordered list don't make a custom template. Adding a class is as simple as:
{{ localeswitcher(classes = 'custom-class another-class') }}
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(Optional) Activate/install the Labels extension, set your languages in it's config and mark any hardcoded text in your templates with
{{ l("Your text here") }}
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(Optional) Translate your Boltforms by switching
{% form_theme form 'boltforms_custom.twig' %}
to{% form_theme form '@bolt/frontend/boltforms_theme_translated.twig' %}
at the top of a form template. This requires the Labels extension.
If you want to include the localeswitcher in your menu you can edit the _sub_menu.twig
file and add the following right before the closing <ul>
:
<li>Language
{{ localeswitcher(classes = 'menu submenu vertical') }}
If you want to output the localeswitcher (or some part of it) anywhere you have
access to an array called locales
in basically any template that you use.
Using this you can craft basically any locale selector you want, see #30 for
more info. To see the structure please dump it by using {{ dump(locales) }}
.
The array locales
can be ordered based on the active locale by using the
|order()
filter, like this: {% for locale in locales|order('-active') %}
.
This extension overrides Bolt in a few different places and sometimes you want to revert some of it back to it's default state. You can disable the overrides for routing, menus and slug handling in the config.
Started by ANIMAL, finished/ported to Bolt 3 by SahAssar
This Bolt extension is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT License.