MODX Multilingual - Setting up Babel and have a website with multiple languages

In this tutorial I will show you how to setup a multilingual MODX Revolution website using the exellent Babel package. Our goal: We want one website with three supported languages and a nice, SEO friendly, URL for each language.

It can be very tricky to create a Multilingual website no matter wich framework or CMS you use. As always doing it in MODX is not that difficult.
Our goal: We want one website with three supported languages and a nice, SEO friendly, URL for each language English - http://your-website-url.com Dutch http://your-website-url.com/nl/ German - http://your-website-url.com/de/

These websites will be very easy to manage from within one MODX manager and creating/managing translations of pages should be a breeze.

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http://designfromwithin.com/blog/2012/01/12/modx-multilingual-setting-up-babe...

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• language
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• multilaguage
• multilingual
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[LLuuuK]

hey, thanks for the video, it's interesting to see how other people are doing this =), some little details...

1) I wouldn't set all the context settings to "language", for example "site_url", "base_url", "site_start" belong to the "site" category (have a look at the system setting =D) and it would may be also wise to set a custom "error_page"...

2) workflow: I usually make one language context with the related pages and then just duplicate the context (rclick on context > duplicate context)