[TYPO3] multiple frontend versions of a site

[Georg Rehfeld]

Hi David, all,

David Lanier wrote:
> - This is for an organization that has several physical locations.
> - The site needs to be customized for each physical location.
> - The user will select a location by clicking a link.
> - 99% of the pages (navigation) will be the same.
> - 50-75% of the content on those pages will be the same.
> ...
> 2) Use TYPO3's translation mechanism.  What we are looking for is 
> essentially all the same functionality that is already present in the 
> translation features native to typo3.  We just don't want multiple 
> languages.  We want multiple locations.
> 
> Is that even a route worth pursuing?  Does typo3 support "ad-hoc" 
> languages? made-up languages?  (I recognize that this would certainly 
> add some issues if we ever decided to add alternate languages to the site.)

I think creatively abusing the translation feature will be a promising
way to go. AFAIK 'virtual' languages are possible (somewhere in the
translation documention Kasper has given a sample for a hypothetical
'Marsian' language). You even might be able to use languages like
'location_1_en', 'location_1_de', 'location_2_en', 'location_2_de'.
You would have to adapt all the language menu samples more or less,
but I think, it should be possible.

regards, Georg
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