Translate Drupal front page (i18n)

Mon, 18/02/2008 - 15:00

drupal tags: translations i18n

If you're using the i18n module to translate a website's contents, and you need also to have a specific homepage for each language, here are a couple of ways to get it:

if you use a custom PHPTemplate front page (page-front.tpl.php

you can call the node of the translation corresponding to the language actually in use:

<?php
if (i18n_get_lang() == 'it') {
    print node_view(node_load(array('nid' => 18)), 1);
}
elseif (i18n_get_lang() == 'en') {
    print node_view(node_load(array('nid' => 19)), 1);
}    ?>

if you use the default Drupal homepage (/node)

set the alias of the main translation node (ie: home) as the homepage in the webiste settings (/admin/settings/site-information)
set the aliases of each following translation nodes to /en/home, /fr/home, and so on.