Different Forums depending on Lanquage?

[oliwood]

Originally Posted by nexialys

Hi.. here is my suggestion...

we can add a feature in the forum settings so each forum is indicated to belong to one language or all... you then set by default for each forum or category who can see the difference.

then, you have a section in the userCP options where the user can select what forums they want to see, all, or their prefered language or as many as there is in the list (english, german, deutsch, etc)

so in the forum display and forumhome, if the user select nothing or all, all the forums are displayed. if the user select this or that or those languages, the display will be the same as chosen...

... this hack may require about 10 or 15 edition of files, no more... with an installer and the HowTo, and support for the entire life of your installation...

That sounds nice, i think another section in the usercp is a great idea, it will be called "forum display" i.e. Then the users get listed the names of all 100 forums, with a checkbox where they can enable or disable each forum.

Or would it be easier, as you suggested, to give the user the option to choose between "see all", "see only german", "see only english" and to set the value in the adminpanel, whether a forum belongs to englisch or german?

Oh no, a better idea:

A option in the adminpanel where you can set whether the forum belogs to english or german ....as you said,

but in the usercp a own section as mentioned above, with all kinds of forumgroups listed whith checkboxes to enable or disable the forumgroups.

Example: I have 100 forums, divded in englisch and german, italian... and grouped into musik, movies, fun, ...

The user should have the option to click into his usercp an enable only german forums and only musik and movies.

So it works like a filter option yet. This is the most flexible way. In programming this hack the only important difference to your suggestion is, that each forum must have mimimum 2 belongings. Example: I create a new forum called lyrics. Afterwards i set the otion, that this forum belongs to "english" and to "musik".

If a user now has chosen to see only german forums, he won?t see it. If he has chosen to see "english" but "movies" and "fun", he still won?t see it. If he has chosen "english" and "musik" he will see it.

I hope you understand what i mean!

Is it take the same time for coding it?

If not then it is enough as you suggested to give the user the option to choose between the languages an "all".

Is it ok for you, that my board is a german vbulletin version?