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Hi all,
We’re still struggling with some multi-language issues in a 3 language site we’re building. 

I need to have the registration confirmation for a user be in one of 3 languages. The bad news is—I haven’t figure out how to do this yet.  The good news is that I have a number of methods by which I can pass information or set up the system so that the system knows which language or tempalte or translatino to use.  I just don’t have, yet, an idea of how to generate more than one registration confirmation message—different templates, one template with different translations, custom messages taht are triggered for different langauges.

Has anyone had experience with this, or have any suggestions?  I think multi-language sites in expressionengine are both fun and challenging… would love to talk to anyone who has a successful build up and running. 

thanks much.

Phoebe

Hi Phoebe,

Custom System Messages allows you to use regular templates for system messages. This way you can use what you already have in those templates to give you the correct translation

Does that help?

Yes, I am using that—I need to re-check, but because of parsing order, I don’t believe I can get the translation logic into th template.  Only allows one template to be sent, and that template needs to know which language to use, and then to show only that text.

Phoebe,

It depends how you have your site set-up for multi-language.

If you had something similar to this setup and had a global variable available called country_code then in that template if you could have

{{country_code}_error_message}

Which would return the correct phrase for you

Yea, I use exactly that setup—I carry the {country_code} variable in the templates, in the URL, and it works great for everything - channels, translations, etc.

I still am missing a piece here, though—I’m not sure how to generate any of hte system emails—like member confirmation and welcome messages - in one of three languages. I think there is a step or element that I’m not understanding, but I can’t see how to do it yet….

thanks for your help.

Phoebe

Phoebe ,

Moving to Community Help as now more appropriate here.

Ah ok for emails notifications take a look at MX Notify control. You can specify templates for different email notifications

The above I mentioned is just for system messages