Hi Alex, All of the CE views already have their texts localized, meaning instead of writing something like:
"Bruno's Posts" The templates use symbols, like: :users_posts_header.l (where .l is a method on Symbol that does the i18n lookup). So, if all you're doing is i18n, you should just be able to make edits to the appropriate .yml file (see README section on localization for more on this: http://github.com/bborn/communityengine/blob/master/README.markdown). If you're changing the structure of the markup, then you'll have to override the views. I've found that you can do a lot of customization by just creating a custom locale file and overriding CSS. You can take that pretty far before you need to start overriding tons of views. Thanks, Bruno On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Alex <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, let me ask you guys a general question about customizing a > CE site... I know with the desert gem, you can override everything, > including views... So, say I want my site to support both french and > english. I have to go through each view and replace the hardcoded > texts with a function that will get the text to render in the correct > language... So, I have to override almost each and every single view > in the project? I know that for a model or a controller, I can > override only the method I'm interested in, but for the view, correct > me if I'm wrong but I have to override everything in the view? Doing > so, I'm afraid that I will not be able to upgrade my site when new > releases of CE come out. > > If you could point out the best strategies to customize a CE site ans > especially the views, it would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CommunityEngine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<communityengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/communityengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CommunityEngine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/communityengine?hl=en.
