user editing for different languages

Monday 06 September 2004 8:31:01 am

Hi everyone,

I've created a custom user edit page which works well. However when I try to view the user account in a different language attribute_edit_gui does not show any attributes at all. I have discovered (correct me if I´m wrong) that this is because a user is created as a generic content object beneath a language in the site tree and therefore is not available for other languages.

Does anyone know how i could make a user created under one language appear in another (i.e. save it generically and not relative to site language)?

cheers

Joe

Monday 06 September 2004 11:04:16 am

Hi Joe,

this is a known problem that was also mentioned on the conference. eZ has not come up with a solution yet.

Monday 06 September 2004 2:26:20 pm

This is also discussed here:

http://ez.no/community/forum/developer/user_register_problem_in_multilanguage_website

Same result though: eZ have yet to reply.

What you could do is use your login handler to make sure the first version is in the default language. Then your next version would be the localised version.

Post back here if you have trouble with your handler. But get your hands dirty first ;)

paul

Tuesday 07 September 2004 9:53:31 am

Okay, so I've figured out that the regional settings in the site.ini file are read in by Ez when creating a new object. This means that I can put a switch somewhere along the way just after the default language is set. I think this still has to be in register.tpl because that is the only place where it's guaranteed that a user is being created for the first time. Let me know if you think I'm on the right track...

cheers

Joe

Wednesday 08 September 2004 5:38:34 am

Hi Paul,

I've plugged away and discovered that for both fetching and storing all objects go through the the constructor method of ezcontentobject.php

As a result I tried adding a fix in the constructor:

Original code

    function eZContentObject( $row )
    {
        $this->eZPersistentObject( $row );
	    $this->CurrentLanguage = eZContentObject::defaultLanguage();
    }

Hacked code

    function eZContentObject( $row, $MyLang )
    {
        $this->eZPersistentObject( $row );
		if ($MyLang==''){
        $this->CurrentLanguage = eZContentObject::defaultLanguage();
		}
		else{
		$this->CurrentLanguage = $MyLang;
		}
    }

And in the create method:

Original code

    function &create( $name, $contentclassID, $userID, $sectionID = 1, $version = 1 )
    {
        $row = array(
            "name" => $name,
            "current_version" => $version,
            "contentclass_id" => $contentclassID,
            "permission_id" => 1,
            "parent_id" => 0,
            "main_node_id" => 0,
            "owner_id" => $userID,
            "section_id" => $sectionID,
            'remote_id' => md5( (string)mt_rand() . (string)mktime() ) );
        return new eZContentObject( $row );
	}

Hacked code

    function &create( $name, $contentclassID, $userID, $sectionID = 1, $version = 1 )
    {
        $row = array(
            "name" => $name,
            "current_version" => $version,
            "contentclass_id" => $contentclassID,
            "permission_id" => 1,
            "parent_id" => 0,
            "main_node_id" => 0,
            "owner_id" => $userID,
            "section_id" => $sectionID,
            'remote_id' => md5( (string)mt_rand() . (string)mktime() ) );
		/*addition to make user edit work*/
		if ($contentclassID==4){		
		return new eZContentObject( $row, "eng-GB" );
		}
		/*end of addition*/
		else {	
        return new eZContentObject( $row );
    	}
	}

When I ran this I managed to create a user which was unaccesible in all languages for editing! I'm gonna try also editing the fetch method as well...

Let me know if you have any ideas/suggestions (e.g. This won't work Joe! ;))

cheers

Joe

Thursday 09 September 2004 6:31:35 am

Hi Paul,

Thanks for taking the time to look in to it. Unfortunately I couldn't get this to work in either reg.tpl or content/edit.tpl. After changing the user permissions to allow translation I got and object could not be found error.

No matter anyway as the idea of storing a user multiple times for each language is gonna mean a huge db when reasl users are running on the site which I don't really want.

I guess that then leaves me with the option of using another program for shop and user functionality and pluggin it in to EZ. I notice that others have done this too.

With this in mind could you give me a hint as to how I could pull another app into the main ez content area (if it's possible of course!)?

cheers

Joe