Using extra field to activate/disactivate items

Neow85 wrote: I think FlexiContent could help me. I've started to create an extra field "language" with my different languages as checkbox. Now I want items to be available on the frontend only if the current language matches checked languages.

As ggppdk wrote in his last post: you only need FlexiContent. I have just finished a larger project and the in-built Joomla system works perfectly together with some additional FlexiContent features. No need for third party components, if you do not have any specific needs that Falang might offer.

One question. What is the reason that you are using a 3rd party SEF component? I believe this is definitely not needed anymore!

Rooney

Thanks, I will try this solution.

One question. What is the reason that you are using a 3rd party SEF component? I believe this is definitely not needed anymore!

Because it fills the gaps in FaLang. I read everywhere that, with FaLang, urls are not translated and that search engines doesn't recognize other languages than the default one, so you need to use a sef extension. And it makes my subdomains work.
Don't know if I need it anymore without FaLang.

Neow85 wrote: Because it fills the gaps in FaLang. I read everywhere that, with FaLang, urls are not translated and that search engines doesn't recognize other languages than the default one, so you need to use a sef extension. And it makes my subdomains work.
Don't know if I need it anymore without FaLang.

You will definitely not need it using FlexiContent and the in-built Joomla multilanguage system because every translation is an own article and every menu item is an own menu item. So the url is built from the aliases.

FaLang stores translation in own data base tables.

You can have a look here for a live site FC+Joomla language system: www.muenstermann.com/en/

By the way, JoomFish (actually FaLang took over the old JoomFish code and started to "sell" it :shock: ) is now also available for Joomla 2.5. The beta version on GitHub ist pretty stable and also uses the in-built Joomla system: github.com/JoomFish/jf-future/w ... structions

Rooney

Thanks for the link. If it uses the Joomla native multilingual system, I think it will not have search engines/url issues like FaLang. Does it work with FlexiContent ?

Also, I wanted to test the full FlexiContent solution, but creating one item per translation is really painful, because I have 10 languages to manage (fr-FR, fr-BE,nl-BE, nl-NL, fr-CH, de-CH, de-DE, it-IT, es-ES and pt-PT). For now, it seems to be the hardest issue, although it should allow to display or not one item for one language.

I wonder if using Joomfish and FC may be a little more user-friendly than just FC.

You can use Falang with FLEXIcontent categories , fields , file titles,


but we do not recommend using it for items

-- if you use it for items too (aka you do not create multiple items but only one item and then create item translations via Falang),
then note that Falang will only translate title, description , alias , meta (meaning only core fields and not custom fields)

Also read this:
How To Translate you content in v1.5.6+ / v2.0+

Thanks for the link, I didn't find it, and for your quick support !

If I use a plugin for translation, I think I will try Joomfish 2.5 rather than FaLang, it seems a lot better and it follows Joomla native multilingual.