GRiDDS Language Menu¶

What does it do?¶

GRiDDS Language Menu allows you to create regions and relate languages to them. The plugin shows a menu in the frontend with the languages, grouped by regions.

What problems solves GRiDDS Language Menu?¶

• If you have e.g. a language “english” for worldwide and a seperate language “english” for the us market, you are able to show your users a region “USA” and a region “Worldwide” with the related english- version.
• If you have subtrees in your pagetree, you can show different regions in conclusion with different language relations in every tree.
• You can override the language abbrevation and title.
• You can map languages to any other or to the default language.
• You can redirect languages to other pages (intern) or websites (extern), e.q. To use it with multiple page trees for languages.
• GRiDDS Language Menu uses the TYPO3 website languages and involves the sys_language_mode.

Target Group¶

This Extension is usefully for websites, with languages and regions, f.e. Market regions.

Technical aspects¶

GRiDDS Language Menu is based on Extbase/Fluid. GRiDDS Language Menu maps the tables pages, pages_language_overlay, sys_language and static_languages.

GRiDDS Language Menu uses jQuery to show the menu. GRiDDS Language Menu brings jQuery with it and protects itself against conflicts with other JS frameworks. Of course, the menu will run with deactivated javascript too.

Important to know¶

• GRiDDS Language Menu doesn't have own language objects and uses the TYPO3 website language elements instead. GRiDDS Language Menu isn't an alternative to the TYPO3 languages, it's a supplement.
• The included jQuery library can disturb other extensions if they use JS frameworks which are using the “$”. GRiDDS Language Menu uses “jQuery” instead of “$”, so you can set jQuery.noConflict(); to solve this problem or you can remove the scripts by Typoscript with this line: page.includeJS.jquery > // for the included jQuerypage.includeJS.languageMenuMobile > // for the included script based on jQuery
• You can remove our styles if you want to begin the menu style from scratch: page.includeCSS.menu >

Menu label and “page not translated” message¶

plugin.tx\_grdslanguagemenu {

\_LOCAL\_LANG {

it {

tx\_grdslanguagemenu-list.changeLanguage = Cambia la lingua

tx\_grdslanguagemenu-list.pageNotTranslated = Pagina non e tradotto in questa lingua

}

}

Translate the languages¶

To get the same translation for every language, set only the default. To get different translations for every own language, set the locallang for every language. Please note: When e.g. a chinese user on the english page is searching his language, it's more comfortable for him, to write this in his language, as example "中国的”instead of “chinese”.

plugin.tx\_grdslanguagemenu {

\_LOCAL\_LANG {

default {

region {

ww = Whole World

}

language {

abbr {

L1 = GLOB

}

title {

L1 = Globish

}

}

}

}

}

Typoscript Settings¶

**Persistence**¶

**Order of setting interpretation and output generation**¶

Locallang¶

Example¶

plugin.tx_grdslanguagemenu {

settings {

languageParamOverride {

L17.lang = 0 #override language 17 with 0

L12 {pid=25 # redirect language 1 2 allways to page 25

}

L5 {external = 1 # activate external redirect extTarget = www.superlanguagemenu.com #redirect language 5 to www.superlanguagemenu.com target = _blank # open the redirect in a new window/tab

}

}

}

_LOCAL_LANG {

default {

language {

abbr {

L14 = CN-SIMP #override the chinese abbrevation “ZH” with “CN- SIMP”

}

title {

L14 =:code:中国的 #override the chinese title “ Chinese ” with “ **中国的** **”**

}

}

}

de {

region {

ww = Weltweit #translate the region ww (“Worldwide”) to “Weltweit” (de)

}

language {

title {

L17 = Deutsch #translate the language 17 (“German”) to “Deutsch” (de)

L1 = Englisch

L2 = Französisch

L4 = Spanisch

L5 = Italienisch

L6 = Niederländisch

L7 = Schwedisch

L8 = Norwegisch

L9 = Dänisch

L10 = Finnisch

L14 = Chinesisch

L16 = Englisch

}

}

}

it {

tx_grdslanguagemenu-list.changeLanguage = Cambia la lingua

tx_grdslanguagemenu-list.pageNotTranslated = Pagina non e tradotto in questa lingua

}

}

}