Module: Multilanguage Support for Gallery3

EDIT: Latest multilang version can be downloaded from: multilang3_4.0.zip

Hello,

I have developed a module for multi-language for gallery 3. Using this the publisher can publish it's gallery in multiple languages. This is like Multilang module in Gallery2, with some additional features:

Features:
1. Allows publishing of photo items in multiple languages
2. Allows publisher to have language specific TAGs
3. Gives advantage of having an optional extra field Short Description. This can be used by the theme (e.g. $item->short_description) to boost the SEO
4. The filename can also be entered language specific, giving the advantage of image indexing by SE in multiple languages
5. A G3 Sidebar (see screenshots below), that shows all the alternative locales, in which the current item is available.

The multilang edit is accessible through
1. context menu
[img]http://gallery.menalto.com/files/multilang-context-menu.png[/img]

2. sidebar
[img]http://gallery.menalto.com/files/multilang-sidebar_0.png[/img]

The multilang edit dialog:
[img]http://gallery.menalto.com/files/multilang-edit.png[/img]

you can check the discussion thread at for more detail:
http://gallery.menalto.com/node/98170
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Could be added as a pull request in case you are familiar with GIT, otherwise will just get someone to take the zip and add it

Dog Photos | Gallery2 Themes Demo

yaa, nice work gopu!! Thanks a lot!

How is the best way to update from my preVersion?

greetings.

edit: Solved!

Thanks gopu.

Problem was caused by the old Beta Version I used ;)

Hi there/

Something badly wrong with interface of this useful plugin.
I cannot choose same destination folder for 2 languiges.

It writes:
"There is already a movie, photo or album with this internet address"

and does not save multilang editing.

what's may be wrong?

Any luck with automated Google Translate translations?

SoosKriszta
Csillamvilag.com
Bodypainting, Facepainting, Glitter, Henna
Materials, Courses, Resources

Also, can you think about making this work with Captionator and BatchTag modules? So that just like we do for default language, we can also mass tag/caption in additional languages...

SoosKriszta
Csillamvilag.com
Bodypainting, Facepainting, Glitter, Henna
Materials, Courses, Resources

EDIT: New version updated

Those who are using TAGs, one critical bug has been fixed regarding Tags.

If you are using it, you must upgrade to

http://gallery.menalto.com/files/multilang3_4.0.zip

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That's the reason why there is a warning about this before it gets installed.

The problem with changing the default language is that, the information on default language is maintained in core table (i.e. items)
Now if you change the default language, you could have changed to one of the languages, data on which is present in multilang_items table. That's where we have trouble.
We can swap the content of the multilang_items and items for ALL the photos/albums (could be in thousands) but that would bring unnecessary complication.

It could have been supported but beside the effort in development it requires lot of hours in testing also and that's for to support a unlikely scenario.
Default language is like mother tongue, it cannot/shouldn't be changed

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Yes, you can.

For this you need to have multilang sidebar enabled.
Once you do that go to your root gallery page.
There through sidebar (click on the locale icons) you can edit the info for root item.

-gopu
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hi sooskriszta,

EDIT: updated the download link
There was a critical data loss bug in TAG. If anybody using tag feature would have got affected by that.
Did you download the update and applied: http://gallery.menalto.com/files/multilang3_4.0.zip

To know whether you got affected or not, you can click on the individual tag names.
If you see the expected number of items for each than its fine. Else you too got affected by the tags.

Anybody who got affected by the bug, please report to me.

I have no plan for batch tag feature until all the basic are present and COMPLETELY bug free.

- gopu

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Thank you. There was an unpredictable mess with tags losses.
So I placed all tags in default language.

Thank you for this great addon, gopu! I have only used it for testing yet but I already like it a lot.

I wonder if you or someone else could help me with this one: I just imported my gallery2 into gallery3 but it doesn't seem to have imported the multi-lingual descriptions. Neither in the gallery itself I can find them nor directly in the database. (Using phpmyadmin the field ..multilang_items is showed to be gray.)
I installed the multilanguage support module, activated it and afterwards started the import.

Is there any somewhat automatic way to import the multi-lingual descriptions from gallery2?

That's great news! I'm really looking forward to it.

SoosKriszta, thanks for your patience. Yes, translation next in line.
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Hello,

I have added the feature to import multilang data from Gallery2.

To import is very simple.
1. Update to this attached Multilang module
2. Click on Admin->Settings->Gallery 2 Import

It does not matter if you have already imported your G2 once.
Just for multilang you can to do it again, it will not affect anything else.

Enjoy.
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Hey Gopu, Still waiting with bated breath for Google Translate integration ;-)

SoosKriszta
Csillamvilag.com
Bodypainting, Facepainting, Glitter, Henna
HennaLap.com

I would greatly appreciate it.

This is the only thing stopping me from deploying this module on my production site.

Waiting eagerly.

SoosKriszta
Csillamvilag.com
Bodypainting, Facepainting, Glitter, Henna
HennaLap.com

Hi gopu,
I am really sorry I haven't given you feedback for your new feature yet.
My problem is that I don't got the original g2 installation anymore since I have moved to another server. I only got copies of the (hopefully) right files and a virtual machine that resembles my old server. The past weeks I was too busy to get g2 running with these copies but I'm still really interested in your feature.
I hope to get it run and be able to give you feedback within this week. (Unfortunately I'm also struggeling with hdd issues so I can't make any promises.)

Hi sooskriszta,

it looks like Google Translation will be paid.
Read this http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/spring-cleaning-for-some-of-our-apis.html

The one that they are currently offering, will soon be deprecated.

I am dropping this task of implementing Language translation G3 multilang, unless a way is found to do it FREE.

-gopu
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Batchtag module allows the admin to apply a tag to all items in an album. Would be good if we can do this in other languages too...i.e. somehow making your multilingual play ball with rWatcher's Batchtag.

Similarly, captionator allows setting descriptions, titles etc of all photos in an album on one page. It would be good if we can do the same for other languages, not just default one. http://gallery.menalto.com/node/103744

SoosKriszta
Csillamvilag.com
Bodypainting, Facepainting, Glitter, Henna
HennaLap.com

I do NOT prefer to use Microsoft APIs for open source product.
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Justs a little thanks to Gupu - Module still works.

http://photo.marktim.ru

Hey Gopu,

I tested the import features with the multilang module but it crashed with the following error :

2011-12-29 17:02:30 +00:00 --- error: exception 'Exception' with message '@todo G2_FUNCTION_FAILED' in /var/www/clients/client1/web1/web/gallery3/modules/g2_import/helpers/g2_import.php:1368
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/clients/client1/web1/web/gallery3/modules/multilang3/helpers/MY_g2_import.php(57): g2(Array)
#1 /var/www/clients/client1/web1/web/gallery3/modules/multilang3/helpers/MY_g2_import.php(47): g2_import::g2_multilang_import(7, '1')
#2 /var/www/clients/client1/web1/web/gallery3/modules/g2_import/helpers/g2_import_task.php(137): g2_import::import_album(Array)

I scratched my head for a while as the code seemed ok until I enabled the mysql logs and found out that the MySQL query was wrong (at least with my DB, maybe the table was renamed later on and not by the the upgrade scripts), so here is a small patch to solve the issue :

--- multilang3/helpers/MY_g2_import.php 2011-12-29 18:25:31.000000000 +0000
+++ multilang3/helpers/MY_g2_import.php 2011-12-29 18:25:37.000000000 +0000
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@
     global $gallery;
     if ($g2_id && $g3_id){
       $results = g2($gallery->search(
-                                                                 "Select [MultilangItemMap::language], [MultilangItemMap::title], [MultilangItemMap::summary], [MultilangItemMap::description] ".
-                                                                 "from [MultilangItemMap] where [MultilangItemMap::itemId] = ".$g2_id));
+                                                                 "Select [MultiLangItemMap::language], [MultiLangItemMap::title], [MultiLangItemMap::summary], [MultiLangItemMap::description] ".
+                                                                 "from [MultiLangItemMap] where [MultiLangItemMap::itemId] = ".$g2_id));
 
       while ($results && $result = $results->nextResult()) {
         $multilang = ORM::factory("multilang_item")

Or simply run :
sed -i.bak 's/MultilangItemMap/MultiLangItemMap/g' multilang3/helpers/MY_g2_import.php

After that the import module does run fine and most of the albums translations are correctly imported but some aren't (need to investigate why).

Anyway hope this help and thanks for the module
LeTic

Hey, Gopu!

Any chance you'll get time to look at making BatchTag and Captionator multilingual soon?
SoosKriszta
Csillamvilag.com
Bodypainting, Facepainting, Glitter, Henna
HennaLap.com
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Hello Dogen,

Is it possible to have admin access to your site? That's only easiest and fastest way to solve your problem.

-gopu
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