Localize Your Documents

Pimcore allows you to localize every document. You can find the setting in your document in the tab Properties. There you can choose from language which is configured in the system settings.

The selected language is registered as a property on the document, which is inherited to all of its children.

If you have selected a language this will be automatically set on your request object ($request->getLocale()) and is therefore automatically used for shared translations, localized object lists and all other localized kind of contents.

Since the language is a simple property you can access it like every other property like:

 // in your controller / action
 $locale = $request->getLocale(); 
 //or 
 $language = $this->document->getProperty("language");
  
 // any document
 $doc = \Pimcore\Model\Document::getById(234);
 $language = $doc->getProperty("language");
  

{% set documentLanguage = document.getProperty('language') %}

Once you have defined the language of your documents you can also use the translate helper in your views, as described here. Pimcore uses the standard Symfony translator, so you can even access all the translations provided by your bundles.

Translating terms on the website

Pimcore comes with a translation module for the website which is explained in Shared Translations. This is what needs to be done to use translations in templates and display them accordingly on the website (frontend). E.g. button names, labels - all the stuff that is predefined by the template and not entered by the editor.

More about this

To learn more about this visit the best practices for multilanguage pages