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Asked: 2026-05-11T22:33:06+00:00

We are looking for a way to publish articles in different languages, including differences

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We are looking for a way to publish articles in different languages, including differences in writing direction (RTL/LTR) and of course character sets. The maintainer of the current site works with Mambo/Joomla, but has already found severe restrictions in terms of extensibility.

A similar question has already been asked, but I will add feature and system requirements.

Feature-wise, we need the following functionality:

  • CMS standard features (two-stage publishing, permissions, different publishing mechanisms …)
  • In addition to standard categorization, articles should have a language meta attribute
  • It should be possible to provide a single article in one or more languages
    • Links between articles should indicate the language of the target article, if it does not match the language of the source article.
    • It should be possible to link directly to an article published in a certain language (e.g. mysite.com/article/23423/my-cool-title?lang=ar).
  • Authors should have some kind of indication of their language capabilities

At the level of system requirements, we have thought of the following alternatives:

  • Standard PHP/MySQL on Apache (LAMP)
  • Google App Engine (preferred django)

We are looking for a complete CMS, that can easily be extended and administrated, or a framework that covers most of the functionality. Please consider that we have already read through the answers on the previously mentioned question.

Thank you,

Kariem

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  1. Editorial Team

    Drupal could very easily meet your needs on the LAMP stack. As of Drupal 6 almost everything you need is available. You can have:

    • Multi stage publishing and workflow with the contributed Workflow module
    • New content can be tagged in a specific language, or created as language neutral
    • I don’t know if it would be possible to have the CMS automatically list the target language of a link, but it shouldn’t be hard with a few lines of code to add a filter something like [link: article ID or name] to insert a link to the other article that would list the language of the link target
    • linking to a specific language/translation of an article is no problem, most folks set that up with path prefixing in Drupal, so an english article would be at example.com/en/article/path and say french at example.com/fr/article/path
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