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Hi,

Can anyone tell me how can i develop multi language and multiple sites in EE ?. below is my Overview.

i have 5 countries Sites ie 1)UAE 2) Oman 3) Kuwait 4) KSA 5) Egypt Each country had dual languages ie English and Arabic.i had developed two templates one for English and other for Arabic.

how can i use the same two templates for all the countries ?.

how can i make directories for my sites.ie if user click on the UAE-en then it will display all the content related to uae http://www.mydomain.com/ae/english

Can anyone suggest me how to do this

Thanks.

We use this method:
http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Multi_language_site_alternative/

where each subdirectory (ie. ae,en,  etc) has it’s path with the various lang variables.

Then you just need to test against the various variables in the templates - so we end up doing:

{title{lang_suffix}}

where {lang_suffix} is something like _fr or _cy, which corresponds to the way we’ve named the fields.

Brandon Kelly’s Gypsy plugin is a lifesaver here, and gets around issues with duplicating fields such as title_cy..etc.

Also for paths we use {county_path}/path/to which for the root language would be empty - giving just /path/to, but for other langs is /cy giving /cy/path/to.