Different templates per language in Kirby 3

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#1

Hi,

Iā€™m trying to migrate a website from K2 to K3 and Iā€™m using the new panel.

In the K2 install I had my content folder setup like this:

content/1-about/overons.nl.txt
content/1-about/about.en.txt

My templates looked like:

site/templates/about.php
site/templates/overons.php

Both pages could be edited with the panel in K2, but in K3 this doesnā€™t seem to be possible.

Iā€™ve started rebuilding the content for my site three times already, but every time the template names are reset. :frowning:

My process is as follows:

  1. I create a new page in the default language (NL)
  2. The content gets saved as default.nl.txt
  3. I change the template name in the filename by changing default.nl.txt to overons.nl.txt
  4. So far so good
  5. I add the new language (EN) and try to change the filename to about.en.txt to link the English template and after saving the panel created a new file overons.en.txt

Iā€™m then left with three files in my content folder: overons.nl.txt, about.en.txt and overons.en.txt. The about.en.txt file never gets updated when working in the panel and the linked template is the Dutch one for both languages.

Is this a bug, or am I missing something?
Is it even possible to use different templates for each language in Kirby 3?

Cheers,
Rutger

#2

This is such a weird setup. May I ask you why do you need different templates for the same page in different languages? Maybe thereā€™s an alternative approach we can use here to tackle the problem.

#3

Because the template contents differ and some parts are too complex to setup with editable fields.

#4

Just thinking out loud here but couldnā€™t you for example keep the part in common inside the same template and then load the parts that are different via snippets based on the current active language?

#5

Thatā€™s always an option ofcourse. Thing is the current site is build in 2.1.1 and not updated for a while. I believe the recent 2.x release also doesnā€™t play nice with language dependent templates?

Iā€™d like to port the content over and continue to work on the site.

Question here is: is this even possible in Kirby 3?

#6

Honestly I thought this wasnā€™t even an option with K2. I always thought you needed matching templates because kirby uses the default language as a fallback to fill in missing content.

So I guess you canā€™t really do that. I started on Kirby around v2.5 so canā€™t really tell if this was possible before that due to some bug.

#7

Your setup with different content files is not supported in K2 or K3, if it worked in your version, then due to a bug.

#8

Thanks for your reply @texnixe. Iā€™ll rebuild the templates for the project.