Multilevel folder (URL) structure

[arthur_a_keen]

Multilevel folder structure.

Pls, can you advice how to create a multilevel URL structure?
For example it is a 5 language website and I need:

htttp://domain.com/news/news_name_here/ (English version)

and

htttp://domain.com/fr/news/news_name_here/ (French version)
htttp://domain.com/de/news/news_name_here/ (German version)
htttp://domain.com/it/news/news_name_here/ (Italian version)
htttp://domain.com/jp/news/news_name_here/ (Japanese version)

Is it possible with GetSimple?

Thank you!

[yojoe]

It's a higher layer of abstraction, but it's possible with some modifications to create proper navigation system.

Just create 5 parent pages and name them accordingly to languages.
Create subpages in all language versions you need as siblings, and assign them a proper parent.

[arthur_a_keen]

yojoe, it is impossible. It does not work this way in GetSimple.

[yojoe]

Weird, I didn't have problems with this solution, nor couple other persons.
Browse threads in "Sites Using GetSimple" section and see some multilanguage websites on your own eyes.

[arthur_a_keen]

No matter if it is a multilingual or not multi
I talk about a multilevel URL structure: domain.com/folder_name/folder_name/folder_name/folder_name/

I do not understand how to make this in GetSimple. If you could show me an example ?

[yojoe]

Ahhh, I thought you were wondering how to approach to create multilanguage sites.
GS is designed to work with a 2 lvl deep navigation (parents and their slugs).
If you'd like to go deeper, you'd have to hack navigation inside admin panel (navigation.php) , and then create own function to get parents/slugs and display menu.

Here's a good start: http://get-simple.info/forum/topic/107/b...avigation/


tbh. I think you expect too much from this CMS, and it doesn't fit into the type of website you want to create.

[arthur_a_keen]

yojoe, thank you. I will look at the topic http://get-simple.info/forum/topic/107/b...avigation. Thank you

[arthur_a_keen]

I have read the topics, installed Zegnat plugin but still do not see any changes in the admin's Page Management > Page Editing Mode.

I do not need to add any menu to the site. I just need to create pages with different URLs:

domain.com/news/news_title_here/
domain.com/de/news/news_title_here/
domain.com/fr/news/news_title_here/
...

Pls, anybody can tell me exactly how to do it? Thank you.

Pls look at the image attached here.

[Carlos]

Several pages cannot have the same slug (the "news_title_here" part).

While it's not what you want, an easy way to do a multilingual site could be adding a prefix (or suffix) to non-English page slugs, like:

domain.com/news/news_title_here/
domain.com/news/de-news_title_here/
domain.com/news/fr-news_title_here/
...
(or .../news_title_here-de/ , etc. if you prefer a suffix)

PS Not sure, but maybe something could be done with mod_rewrite...

[arthur_a_keen]

Carlos, thank you ...
I need exactly in form like this: domain.com/de/news/news_title_here/
My client (Law Firm) already has a website with such URLs and may be would like to use GetSimple for his site.

[Carlos]

Maybe....

Use page slugs like "news-item-1", "fr-news-item-1", "de-news-item-1", and get someone :-) to do a .htaccess rewriterule that passes the id parameter (slug) "fr-news-item-1" to GetSimple's index.php if the URL is domain.com/fr/news/news-item-1 (or domain.com/fr/news-item-1 , as for GS they're both valid)

I've no idea about mod_rewrite, so I don't know if this is difficult. Maybe easier (or safer) if your slugs are like "lgfr-news-item-1" ...?

[arthur_a_keen]

Carlos, thank you

[arthur_a_keen]

SOS!

May be there is a solution for my problem?

[Zegnåt]

There is no solution, GetSimple isn’t made for it. The core only supports 1 level of depth and currently there are no plans to change this.

[arthur_a_keen]

I see ...

Thank you

[Carlos]

Here's a quick 'n dirty patch to the core that may do the trick in this case...

Edit root index.php, around line 30-31 (GetSimple 2.03) insert this:

Code:

$langs=array('fr','de','it','jp');
foreach ($langs as $lg) {
    if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'/'.$lg.'/') !== false) {
        $id = $lg.'-'.$id;
        break;
    }
}

(just before the "# define page, spit out 404 if it doesn't exist" line)

Create your pages with slugs like:
sample-page
fr-sample-page
de-sample-page
...

Now you can open (or link to) the e.g. French page with any of these URLs:

domain.com/fr/news/sample-page/ (the one you wanted)
domain.com/news/fr/sample-page/ (another possibility)

...or the "real" ones:
domain.com/news/fr-sample-page/
domain.com/index.php?id=fr-sample-page

[arthur_a_keen]

Carlos, thank you very much for your help and your time. Unfortunately this solution is not quite acceptable in my case.

[red]

there is much simpler solution

domain.com - first
domain.com/en - en
domain.com/fr -fr
domain.com/ru -ru

Each one is a separate folder cms referring to others. clicking on the links to the languages just going through the cms

Or do it in subdomains

domain.com
en.domain.com
fr.domain.com
ru.domain.com

[Carlos]

Your first solution is nice and simple, but you also have several user/passwords, one for each GS installation (unless you fix that with some script/patch/whatever, but then it's not so simple)

Subdomains could be an option for multi-language, but not a solution for what was asked for in this thread.

[yojoe]

I was thinking about the multilanguage functionality.
The simplest method is to raise nesting 3 lvls instead of two.
1st level would be a language container, and the rest would work as it's now, with 2 lvl nesting.

I don't see the sense of trying to mess with it before v2.04 goes gold, so I'll just hold on until then. It's a matter of creating new menu function, and this may be too hard for me to achieve :\