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Status: Closed Points: 125 Time: 12:47 - Nov 25, 2006  

mayukhgon

What freeware is available to develop an internationalized and localized website?

Can someone point me to the right direction as to what freeware should I use to develop a website that is:

1) Secure
2) Scalable
3) Internationalizeable
4) Localizable


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xarcus

Date:: Nov 25, 2006

Time:: 17:04

What kind of freeware / website are you talking about.

Are you talking about a full featured Content Management System with all kind of modules ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_man...

A more specialized kind of website software, eg. a blog site, a wiki, a digital paper site, a commerce one, a non-profit community site, an intranet site, a classifieds site, ... ?

Or a framework to develop from scratch with good support for the features you enumerate ?

mayukhgon

Date:: Nov 25, 2006

Time:: 18:08

hi xarcus...its a community/social networking website which would launch in several countries.

xarcus

Date:: Nov 26, 2006

Time:: 10:44

I used "EzPublish" http://ez.no some time ago. It is not open source but have, between others, a GPL license, so it is free if you put their logo on the front page.

It is a very well structured PHP app. and have a message file for every page / form of each module, and a great tool for translations ("Qt Linguist") if needed.

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Plone http://plone.org sites are easy to maintain and have good security support, although internationalisation is based on a phrase dictionary. They have lots of modules to use, but the learning curve for creating new ones is very high.

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Drupal http://drupal.org is one of the CMS with more social oriented modules, allthough non-standard modules will have to be translated.

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Information sites:

http://www.cmsreview.com/ You can browse CMS by technology feature through the link "Directory of CMS"

http://www.cmswiki.com/ CMS Wiki

http://www.packtpub.com/award Open source CMS Award.

xarcus

Date:: Nov 27, 2006

Time:: 03:16

Translations pages for the CMS specified:

EzPublish: http://ez.no/download/translations/ez_pu...
http://ez.no/download/translations/ezlup...

Plone: http://plone.org/development/teams/i18n/...
http://plone.org/development/teams/i18n

Drupal: http://drupal.org/translation-status
http://drupal.org/node/11130

Joomla: http://dev.joomla.org/content/view/42/66...
http://dev.joomla.org/content/view/43/67...

mayukhgon

Date:: Nov 27, 2006

Time:: 09:34

Thanks xarcus.

These are great translation tools/sites. But I am lalso ooking for is the ability for my website to be internationalized (code base) ...so that it can be easily localized whenever its needed. Besides language translanslation I will need tools to readily make conversion of other things besides language - such as date format, currency, measurements etc., Thanks for your help!

xarcus

Date:: Nov 30, 2006

Time:: 04:14

Except date/time fields there is usually poor localisation support for the rest

EzPublish has good currency support because it has a better commerce oriented feature.
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_ma...
Check the data types http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_ma...

Plone localisation: http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/...

Drupal specific modules:
Localisation: http://drupal.org/node/81525
There is a currency exchange server module: http://drupal.org/project/currency
Drupal does not have classic 'fields'. See "Why Not to Use Classes" at http://api.drupal.org/api/4.7/file/devel...

Check this place for comparing Community CMS software http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/compare/view/...

bit2bit

Date:: Dec 07, 2006

Time:: 02:15

My recommendation goes for http://www.drupal.org and http://www.plone.org too.

To compare many CMS see the http://cmsmatrix.org/

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