[TYPO3] Domain to language assignment

[Stefan Steinbeck]

Hi!

  I am looking since a couple of days for a solution to assign languages 
to different domains and  vice versa. In the following I have specified 
my problems and the approached I tried to solve them.
  It would be really great if someone could take the time to read my (a 
bit lengthy discussion) of this problem and find a solution!

Thanks and cheers,
Stefan


  Problem:
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  In a multi language typo3 site there should be an defined assignment 
between the domains of that site and the shown page languages. This can 
be split into three requirements:

   * Contents of the domain xyz.abc should be display in the language
     correlated to abc. The pages of a domain info.de should therefor be
     displayed in german.
   * Links to pages in different languages then the actual shown should
     link to the corresponding URL. An example where this should be
     implemented is is the extension "Language Selector".
   * There should be a TypoScript condition for this language selection
     mechanism.

The solution should additionally work with the extension "RealURL".

This Problem has been addresses multiple times in the recent months (see 
references) but no complete solution for this problem has been found.


  Approach:
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  The first approach would be to use additional to the TypoScript 
language condition a domain condition. An example language assignment 
for the two languages german (default language) and english to the 
respective domains .de and .com would look like this:

[globalString = ENV:HTTP_HOST = *xyz.de]
   config {
	  sys_language_uid = 0
	  language = de
	  locale_all = de_DE
          }
[globalString = ENV:HTTP_HOST = *xyz.com]
   config {
	  sys_language_uid = 1
	  language = en
	  locale_all = en_US
	}
[globalVar = GP:L = 0]
   config {
	  sys_language_uid = 0
	  language = de
	  locale_all = de_DE
	}
[globalVar = GP:L = 1]
   config {
	  sys_language_uid = 1
	  language = en
	  locale_all = en_US
         }
[global]

  This would set the language for the text and other content of the page 
properly. But it does not (could not) set the global L variable. Hence 
extensions which are base on that variable would show their content in 
the wrong language and links would point to the default language and 
domain.

  In a second step on could like to update the config.baseURL TypoScript 
variable corresponding to the given language and domain like it was done 
in the example above. But this would make a domain "change" impossible. 
Hence one would not be able to change the language (f.e. change form 
english to german on the com page).

  The third approach was to manually rewrite the global L variable by a 
function to point to the right value if it was no set before. This was 
taken from reference nr.3.



  References:
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  1 Multiple languages with multiple domains in a single page tree;
    Joost van Berckel <berckel at gmail.com>; typo3.english list; 05.12.06;
news://news.netfielders.de:119/mailman.1.1165350244.4140.typo3-english@lists.netfielders.de 


  2 domain name problem;
    Rakowski Tomasz <raczek at open.infi.pl>; typo3.english list; 25.11.06;
news://news.netfielders.de:119/mailman.1.1164463885.26316.typo3-english@lists.netfielders.de 


  3 Force Language and L-parameter;
    Søren Schaffstein <soeren.schaffstein at media-lights.de>; 
typo3.english list; 13.11.06;
news://news.netfielders.de:119/mailman.1.1163424292.21672.typo3-english@lists.netfielders.de 


  4 Multidomain - multilanguage;
    Logi Huldar Gunnlaugsson <logi at spuni.is>; typo3.english list; 09.10.06;
news://news.netfielders.de:119/mailman.12168.1160405207.20124.typo3-english@lists.netfielders.de 


  5 Multi domains multi language site;
    Patrick Boisclair <illustra at videotron.ca>; typo3.english list; 13.05.06;
news://news.netfielders.de:119/mailman.1.1147536894.13674.typo3-english@lists.netfielders.de 


  6 Multiple languages with multiple domains in a single page tree?;
    Rick Janda <Rick.Janda at gmx.de>; typo3.english list; 06.04.06;
news://news.netfielders.de:119/mailman.1.1144332283.20933.typo3-english@lists.netfielders.de