[TYPO3-english] Changing default language in Templavoila

[Stephan Schuler]

Hey Kast.


I wrote some kind of explanation a view months ago -- but I did it in German.
http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-Nachtraegliches-aendern-der-Defaultsprache-p31108992.html
Because your example names German as former default language, maybe you know German.


As Jigal said, there is no simple way of switching default the language because of the database layout. There are "default language records" and "translation records of default language records". Translations know the default language records they are a translation of.

Imagine you have a default language and two translation languages A content element "1" is a default one, the content elements "2" is its German translation, the content element "3" its Italian translation.
Switching default and German language would require
* Switch 2 to be default language (easy to reach)
* Make 2 forget being translation of 1 (easy, too)
* Switch 1 to be German translation (easy)
* Make 1 being translation of 2 (not so easy)
* Make 3 being translation of 2, too (not so easy, too)


Another thing is translated XML data. The "flex" structure allows having records being responsible for "all languages". Those have XML data in them (like the pi_flexform of tt_content, despite exactly this one is *not* XML-translated) where one XML string contains all language strings. Inside this XML string, everything possible with TCA can happen.


It's possible, but it's not an easy database transaction. I think it requires kind of a database reorganization service.
If you want to implement something, I would suggest to do it by CLI. As it requires to potentially touch each and every database table, it should be done with some kind of chunking to avoid being stopped by CPU time or memory limitation. This would result in a totally broken database.
Flipping the "plain database stuff" can be done be reading every record into the PHP memory, creating kind of a UID mapping table and pushing some huge update commands to the database.
Flipping the XML translation is much harder. Therefore, you have to change strings inside the database by reading a record from the database, decode XML, change XML structure, encode XML and write the record back to the database.


Regards,



Stephan Schuler
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Von: typo3-english-bounces at lists.typo3.org [mailto:typo3-english-bounces at lists.typo3.org] Im Auftrag von ktt
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. August 2011 00:20
An: riccardo.decontardi at bhuman.it; TYPO3 English
Betreff: Re: [TYPO3-english] Changing default language in Templavoila

I would like to switch languages in content tables.
Let's say previously default language was German, and English was just a localisation of it in tt_content. If I set English as default language in TS or in User settings(or both) it still remains as localisation in content tables. These positions do not change. Even if I delete a second language from root.

--- On Tue, 8/2/11, Riccardo De Contardi <riccardo.decontardi at bhuman.it> wrote:

> From: Riccardo De Contardi <riccardo.decontardi at bhuman.it>
> Subject: Re: [TYPO3-english] Changing default language in Templavoila
> To: typo3-english at lists.typo3.org
> Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2011, 1:06 PM I'm not sure I've understood...
> do you want to change the language of the backend interface?
>
> If so, use extension manager > translation handling to retrieve the
> languages you want (select, save selection && check status against
> repository && update from repository)
>
> Then, in User tools > user settings > Language
>
>
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> Il 02/08/11 09.44, ktt ha scritto:
> > Hello,
> >
> > How to change default language in Templavoila?
> > I did changes in TS template -
> >
> > config.sys_language_uid = 1
> > config.locale_all = en_GB.UTF-8
> > config.language = en
> >
> > Previous was German L=0.
> > But German still appears as main language in backend, and English
> > being shown as localisation.
> > In frontend everything works ok.
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Kast A.
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