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About Localization

Localization is the new and great characteristic of DNN3. At this moment, the platform supports only static content, but the plans to obtain location of the dynamic part are on way and widely discussed by the core team and also by third parties. The problems that appear at the time of carrying out an attempt to completely locate the content of a page:

How to store the dynamic content
To take in consideration several similar languages (es-BO, es-UY, etc.). That is to say, is it necessary to locate all if they are equal at the end?
If an external user fills information (ie. a forum), Who completes the content for the other languages?
and many more.

The idea is to be advancing step by step and the objective of my modules is to provide a solution for the content that can be filled by the administrators and who in certain form I consider that has static characteristics.

Description

Current version: 03.00.04 (20/sep/2009)

DSLocalizator is a module that includes a set of tools for:

Modules and skin objects to change the user locale

Skin object
Module
Both can be set as a dropdown or a list of links
Templates for links can be specified

Custom localization based on user selected locale

Localize all your portal settings properties (Portal name, keywords, skin, container, copyright text, etc)
Localize all you tab settings (Skin, Tab name, description, keywords, etc)
Localize all your module settings (Title, header, footer, container ,etc)
Enables search for localized data
Can use a cookie, querystring parameter or browser specified language
Can use GeoIP database to detect locale based on the client IP address
You can set the detection order
You can enable/disable a detection feature
An automatic replacement can be done to change all links in page to include the language parameter
SOLPART menu links will be automatically replaced to include the language parameter
You can create your own custom replacements based on current locale and regular expressions
Create regex based replacements for each locale

Can enable SQL storage for the response viewstate

IP ranges can be specified (You can enable it depending of the client IP)
Per page option (Some pages can use normal viewstate and heavy pages uses SQL viewstate)
Host can enable/disable this option
Host can set a scheduler task (automatic) to clear old data (configurable time interval)
Administrators can change the behavior per site, per page or per IP

Turn you preview mode as default

Control panel is hidden in preview mode (good for intranets)
The skin object can show/hide a link designed to change the preview mode status

The module includes a helper that makes all installation for you (you need only a couple of clicks).

License information

MMLinks is released as a free module. It can be used freely only as a PA. Your are not allowed to sell it or rent it (There is no problem if your are using the module and offering some services in the site the module is installed on). No redistribution is allowed

Any reverse engineering is not allowed.

The author takes no responsibility of any damage or injuries produced by the use of this module, so take the necessary steps to keep your data safe.

Download

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See demo

Configuration

A quick overview of the configuration. I will post some videos in the near future

If you want to contribute, do it please.

Due the big number of requests, source code is now available for sale.

It can be used to learn many advanced tasks accomplished in DNN like:

Make a custom hack to DNN default page
Save viewstate to other data storage
Modify object parameters before DNN render
Install, verify and delete schedule tasks from your module
Modify your control panel status

Please click the following link to buy it from snowcovered.

DSLocalizator Source Code at SnowCovered

Some places of interest about localization:

	DNN Roadmap The DNN core team roadmap for content localization
	Esperantus A project for web page localization

There are other groups creating the same kind of modules. I'll be publishing their websites as soon as I get knowledge of them.

	DNN localization forums More resources for complete localization.
	MMLinks & Text Localize content. This is a replacement for your text/html modules and for your links modules.