[TYPO3] Dynamicaly sorting HMENU.special = directory entries, multilingual

[Christopher Torgalson]

Hi,

On 10/22/06, Georg Skillas <gskillas at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> being new to TYPO3 and after scanning several of the mailing list archives
> I am posting the question I could not resolve.
>
> I am building a Multilanguage site and have defined a menu in typoscript
> as follows (please use a fixed font for better readability):
>
> MENU = HMENU
> MENU {
>        special = directory
>        special.value = 4
>        1 = TMENU
>        1.NO = 1
>        1.NO.linkWrap = |
>      }
>
> The structure of the menu is
>
>  +-Menubar (uid 4)
>    +-Aquaria
>    +-Diving
>    +-Sailing
>
> Every page of Aquaria, Diving and Sailing has translations pages in
> english (standard), german, greek. The pages have been arranged in
> alphabetical order of the title, this works nicely with one language.
> Is there a method to dynamicaly arrange the pages based on the page title
> in the respective language?
>
> For completenes, language selection hapens over the much used
>
> config.linkVars = L
> config.sys_language_uid = 0
> config.language = en
>
> ...
>
> LANGUAGE = COA
> LANGUAGE {
>            10 = TEXT
>            10 {
>                 field = uid
>                 wrap = <p><a href="index.php?id=|&L=1">Greek</a></p>
>               }
>            20 = TEXT
>            20 {
>                 field = uid
>                 wrap = <p><a href="index.php?id=|&L=2">German</a></p>
>               }
>            30 = TEXT
>            30 {
>                 field = uid
>                 wrap = <p><a href="index.php?id=|&L=0">English</a></p>
>               }
>          }
>
> ...
>
> [globalVar = GP:L=1]
>         # Greek is needed
>         config.sys_language_uid = 1
>         config.language = gr
> [global]
>
> [globalVar = GP:L=2]
>         # German is needed
>         config.sys_language_uid = 2
>         config.language = de
> [global]
>
> [globalVar = GP:L=0]
>         # English is needed
>         config.sys_language_uid = 0
>         config.language = en
> [global]


Tyler's already answered your main question, but I just wanted to
point out that the way you're building links will eventually cause
problems if you ever use simulateStaticDocuments or RealURL to
generate more human-readable links (i.e. http://domain.com/foo.0.html
or http:domain.com/foo/bar/).

I'd construct the language links this way instead:

LANGUAGE = COA
LANGUAGE {
  wrap = <ul>|</ul>

  10 = HTML
  10 {
    value = Greek
    value {
      wrap = <li>|</li>
      typolink {
        parameter.data = field:uid
        additionalParams = &L=1
      }
    }
  }

  20 < .10
  20 {
    value = German
    value.typolink.additionalParams = &L=2
  }

  30 < .10
  30 {
    value = English
    value.typolink.additionalParams = &L=3
  }
}




-- 
Christopher Torgalson