[TYPO3] Multi-Language Newsletter

FEZ (Felix Kratzer) fez at stoccer.de
Mon Jan 9 09:15:48 CET 2006


Yep!
This was one of the solutions (but not the perfect one) I thought about! 
Thanks for the tip!

FEZ

 > Patrick Broens wrote:
> Hi Felix,
> 
> If you don't use the categories for your newsletters, you can use these 
> to register users to a certain language. We do this with our 
> newsletters. On the Direct mail subscription page we have in each 
> language a hidden field with the category, for instance English is 
> category 1, dutch is 2, french is 3 and spanish is 4. Visitors don't 
> have to choose the language. They have entered the subscription page by 
> selecting a certain language, so that's the language of the newsletters 
> we sent to the subscribers.
> 
> The page in which the newsletter is designed is only in one language, 
> and we add all content of all languages in this page. In the Direct Mail 
> module you can select which content element belongs to which 
> language/category.
> 
> It perfectly sends out newsletters in different languages.
> 
> Patrick Broens
> 
> FEZ (Felix Kratzer) wrote:
> 
>> Hi everybody!
>>
>> I'm creating a multi-language-page (single tree).
>> Now I need a way to create a newsletter in different languages (using 
>> direct mail). To keep it simple I'd like to use the 
>> single-tree-approach as well.
>> But I can't find a way to generate the newsletter in different 
>> languages  (directmail always grabs the URL withou the &L=xxx)
>>
>> Also I do not see a way to give a language attribute to a user or 
>> usergroup (Those will be managed from the backend!)
>>
>> Has anybody already done something like this? Or any other 
>> ideas/extensions/hacks?
>>
>> FEZ



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