Hi,
just a hypothetical question. Is it possible to run two eFiction sites sharing the same database tables but with different settings tables? That might sound a little silly, but I'm thinking about this because a member asked me if it's possible to run a bilingual site.
So all I should have to do is the following:
1. upload an exact copy of my current eFiction in another folder and connect it to my existing database.
2. Then I copy the existing settings table to a new one and name it germanfanfiction_settings for example.
3. Then I have to modify the $settingsprefix variable in config.php, login to my new site and change some of the settings (URL, language, stories path ...).
Now I should have two different sites running on the same database with same stories, reviews, panels, modules, skins etc but with two different settings. This wouldn't be a really bilingual site, but because of the two settings tables it should display at least all system messages bilingual, depending on which site the user has logged in. Do I think right or is this modification not possible?
You might get it to work. I'd probably see if I could set a custom user field for the language and then modify the login and session handlers to switch the site's language based on that.
The problem is that the stories themselves will be in one language or the other. It might be a better idea to just have two seperate archives.
Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
url: https://www.potionsandsnitches.org/fanfiction
php: 7.4.33 msql: 5.6.51-community GPL
efic version: 3.5.5 latest patches: yes
bridges: none mods: challenges, tracker, story end, beta, word
not certainly. Since eFiction comes with the ability to specify classifications, it's possible to add a classification for language and then you have a multi language archive like ff.net. We have a site for german and english stories and some of our members seem to have problems with the english interface sometimes. A second german archive was one of my first ideas, but I found no comfortable way to transfer the existing stories from the old archive to the new one. And to ask nearly 100 authors to re-upload their stories would perhaps cause malicious Emails :).
I just posted a mod for what I suggested above.
