Assign language

[TomT]

I wonder is it possible to assign pages to language?
I have a bilingual site: Dutch and English. Dutch is the default language. Of corse I want texts like Lees verder.... be translated in Read More....
I prefer not to use Mamblefish or Joomfish because the site structure of the Dutch and English versions are completely different.

[davidgal]

There is no such functionality built in to Joomla.

To be able to switch the front-end language selection based on the content item called would require a hack of the core code. Using a specific category (or set of catagories) for pages using one of the two languages would assist in this.

[TomT]

And can you tell me what kind of hack?
All english texts are in seperate sections and catgories.

[davidgal]

Just thinking out aloud...

- One would need to check the 'sectionid' in the content data object after the query to retrieve the content record is run.
- Then a conditional statement would set the global variable for the language $mosConfig_lang to "english" or "dutch" depending on the value or values of the 'sectionid' variable.
- You would need to know which are the section id's that need to be displayed in the non-default language.

I may be missing something but I think that something on these lines would do the job.