Multilingual japanese url alias

Tuesday 10 November 2009 1:30:18 am

You need to transliterate the japanese caracters to "readable" ones. The main difficulty is that you need to find either an extension or alib that will convert the japanese string for you... I know that pecl/translit can do it for chinese, but not to japanese.

Once you've found such a library, you can simply use an URL filter, see here: http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_10/reference/configuration_files/site_ini/urltranslator/filters (check the comments).

Bertrand Dunogier
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Tuesday 24 November 2009 7:03:48 pm

We are facing a similar task but with a Chinese/English website. Rather than transliterate the Chinese characters, all I want to do is turn off the Chinese URL aliases so that both siteaccesses use the English URLs. How can I do this? We're using Exponential 4.2.0.

EAB - Integrated Internet Success
Offices in England, France & China.
http://www.eab.co.uk http://www.eab-china.com http://www.eab-france.com

Wednesday 27 January 2010 2:34:48 am

I have made a little extension can help you :

create extension jdfilter

Create file jdfilter/settings/site.ini.append.php , int this copy this settings and choose your languages traductions :

[URLTranslator]

Extensions[]=jdfilter

Filters[]=jdfilter

[JDTranslation]

URLLanguage[]

URLLanguage[]=eng-GB

URLLanguage[]=fre-FR

*/ ?>

After create the jdfilter/urlfilters/jdfilter.php file with this :

<?php

class jdFilter extends eZURLAliasFilter

{

function jdFilter()

{

}

function process( $text, &$languageObject, &$caller )

{

if ( $caller instanceof eZContentObjectTreeNode )

{

$text = strtolower( $text );

if( $languageObject->attribute('locale') == 'jpn-JP')

{

if( !preg_match( '/^[-a-z0-9._]+$/i', $text ) )

{

$valid = false;

$object = $caller->attribute('object');

$available_languages = $object->attribute('available_languages');

$siteINI = eZINI::instance( 'site.ini' );

$URLTranslations = $siteINI->variable( 'JDTranslation', 'URLLanguage' );

foreach( $URLTranslations as $URLTranslation )

{

if( in_array( $URLTranslation, $available_languages ) && $valid == false )

{

$tsName = $object->name( false, $URLTranslation );

$tsName = eZURLAliasML::convertToAlias( $tsName );

$tsName = strtolower( $tsName );

if( preg_match( '/^[-a-z0-9._]+$/i', $tsName ) )

{

$text = $tsName;

$valid = true;

}

}

}

}

}

}

return $text;

}

}

?>

And just enable the jdfilter extension in your site.ini.append.php

Sunday 07 March 2010 7:47:36 pm

Finally, I did get this working. I needed to change the TransformationGroup setting in site.ini as below:

[URLTranslator]
TransformationGroup=urlalias_iri

After that, when each new object was published Exponential would generate a URL alias for it using the extension. For existing objects, I needed to re-edit them to change the URL alias.

Thanks very much Jeremy, this is a good solution!

EAB - Integrated Internet Success
Offices in England, France & China.
http://www.eab.co.uk http://www.eab-china.com http://www.eab-france.com