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PolskiContent management as a tree structure in eZ-Gento is a big step forward, but it's just a small part of the new features made available.
One of the purposes of Magento store views is to allow you to define additional languages for your e-Store.
Indeed, Magento site can be visited by clients from other countries and we don't want to lose them. That's why, as you know, we can create additional store view and assign each of them to different language.
Magento allows you to duplicate CMS content pages or blocks in order to have one for each store view and therefore one for each language. Having many pages with the same ID can become confusing and hard to manage when you have many pages and/or many languages.
Now everything is easier with ezGento! eZ-Gento comes with automatic mapping between Magento store views and eZ Publish siteaccesses. It means, that when we access the "french" store view, a "french" eZ Publish siteaccess will be asked for content. So if requested page has french translation, it will be displayed.
Remember that there are two main ways of defining content translation in eZ Publish:
- The first one is to add a translation to an exisiting page. This way one content tree has pages with two (or more) translations.
- The second one is to define a separate content tree and have a different page structure in a new language. (This is useful when we don't want to limit or when we want to extend content comparing to the initial language.)
Of course it is possible to mix both methods and add only a few additional pages in new language, or just not to translate some of them.
What about friendly URLs? eZ Publish comes with powerful URL management. Different language has its content with proper URL. By default it's created from the page title, but it's also possible to define additional fields just for URL.
For more multilingual features please refer to eZ Publish documentation page.
All that is possible in eZ Publish is now available in Magento thanks to eZ-Gento!
See eZ Gento, an alternative CMS Module for Magento [Part 1] for more informations on eZ Gento.
