Drupal's JavaScript Translation System

by Matt Butcher

Packt Publishing just released an article of mine (excerpted from my forthcoming book) on their website. The excerpt is from a chapter that I am very excited about because it focuses on a feature that sadly and undeservedly gets lumped into the "unsexy" category: Drupal's amazing translation support.

The article Translations in Drupal 6 JavaScript briefly covers setting up and using the server-side translation system. It also illustrates using that system from within JavaScript. Since the book is on JavaScript, the PHP functions get nothing but a mention in the article.

The article is much shorter than the chapter in the book, and many important topics are only glossed, but I'm always happy to see one of Drupal's unsung heroes (brilliant language support) get front-page coverage.

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Matt Butcher

Matt has worked with a variety of Web technologies since the 1990s. He is the author of the books Learning Drupal 6 Module Development and Drupal 6 Javascript and JQuery, as well as Mastering OpenLDAP, Managing and Customizing OpenCms 6, and Building Websites with OpenCms. Matt provides architecting and engineering services, as well as customization and third-party data integration.

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Comments

Just when I got around to blogging Packt's first article, they posted another one. This time, I cover the theming system.

Again, only an excerpt.

Also, Packt seems to be in the middle of publishing a series of Drupal-related articles by its authors, including David Mercer. Check them all out at the Packt home page: http://packtpub.com.

Matt Butcher —

I received your Drupal jQuery book this weekend, and have been jumping into the behaviors section. So far, I find it a very good write-up of an area in very much need of more documentation. (Not to mention JavaScript translations, which I only recently even found out about.) Thanks for taking on this project!

Aaron

Aaron Winborn —