YAMS: English Documentation

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YAMS is a highly configurable MODx Evolution addon that is designed to make it easy to develop multilingual websites. The following features are currently implemented:

• All content is managed via a single document tree to enable a consistent site structure across all language variants.
• Standard MODx placeholders can be used within document templates in order to generate multilingual content and URLs.
• A tabbed language layout for multilingual documents (requires ManagerManager)
• Document templates can be configured as multilingual or monolingual.
• Highly configurable multilingual URLs. The following are examples of different ways YAMS could be set-up to refer to language variants of a single document:
  Multilingual aliases:
  http://server_name/my-doc-en.html
  http://server_name/mon-doc-fr.html
  Server name mode only:
  http://en.server_name.com/mydoc.html
  http://fr.server_name.com/mydoc.html
  Root name mode only:
  http://server_name.com/en/mydoc.html
  http://server_name.com/fr/mydoc.html
  Root name mode only, with one language at root:
  http://server_name.com/mydoc.html
  http://server_name.com/fr/mydoc.html
  Server name mode, root name mode, friendly alias paths, multilingual aliases and multibyte URLs:
  http://en.server_name.com/england/folder/mydoc.html
  http://fr.server_name.com/la-france/répertoire/mon-doc.html
  
• Additional URL configurability, including ability to hide alias of site start document, SEO friendly redirection, multibyte URLs and content-type dependent alias suffixes.
• Additional YAMS Placeholders allowing access to language specific settings, such as language name and direction.
• Additional functionality via the YAMS snippet call, including the ability to manage custom multilingual chunks, snippets and template variables to generate list-based or drop-down based language switchers (templatable), the ability to repeat content in multiple languages...
• Extensions for Ditto, Wayfinder, Jot and eForm.
• Possible to create custom multilingual template variables.

Author: PMS

Donate: To support the time spent developing, maintaining and supporting YAMS, please donate. To purchase support on a more formal basis, please contact Nashi Power.

Copyright (and example site): Nashi Power 2009

Licence: GPL v3

Forums: YAMS Forums @ MODx. A list of planned developments for YAMS is maintained in this thread.

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