1. Edit plugins/sfSimpleForumPlugin/config/schema.yml, add the culture field to the sf_simple_forum_category table :

lang:     { type: varchar, size: 7 }

My thinking is that only the categories need an added lang field, as all forums belong to a category, and all posts belong to a forum, so the language of a post is implicit in its forum and category. Note I’m using ‘lang’ and not ‘culture’ here, as culture seems to have a specific meaning in symfony, and is used when an object can exist with several cultures, so a category would exist in all languages. However in this case, the french site could have a diferent set of categories to the english site, so it’s not appropriate to use the field name ‘culture’.

2. Add culture to the test data :

sfSimpleForumCategory:
  c1:
    name:        Public Boards
    description: We talk about stuff here.
    rank:        1
    culture:     en_GB
  c2:
    name:        Miscellaneous
    description: Secret matters
    rank:        2
    culture:     en_GB
  c3:
    name:        Alleatoire
    description: Les choses alleatoires
    rank:        1
    culture:     fr_FR

3. Select by culture when getting list of all categories in plugins/sfSimpleForumPlugin/lib/model/plugin/PluginsfSimpleForumForumPeer.php:

public static function getAllOrderedByCategory()
{
  $c = new Criteria();
  $c->addJoin(self::CATEGORY_ID, sfSimpleForumCategoryPeer::ID);
  $c->add(sfSimpleForumCategoryPeer::CULTURE, sfContext::getInstance()->getUser()->getCulture());
  $c->addAscendingOrderByColumn(sfSimpleForumCategoryPeer::RANK);
  $c->addAscendingOrderByColumn(self::RANK);return self::doSelectJoinCategoryLeftJoinPost($c);
}

4. Add culture to admin interface in plugins/sfSimpleForumPlugin/modules/sfSimpleForumCategoryAdmin/config/generator.yml :

list:
  title: Category Administration

  display: [=name, description, rank, lang]
edit:
  title: Edit category "%%name%%"
  display: [name, description, rank, _lang, _forums]

5. Add set_culture partial in plugins/sfSimpleForumPlugin/modules/sfSimpleForumCategoryAdmin/templates/_lang.php :

< ?php
use_helper('Utils');
$cultures = array('en_GB' => 'English', 'fr_FR' => 'French', 'de_DE' => 'German');
echo select_culture_tag('sf_simple_forum_category[lang]', $sf_simple_forum_category->getLang(), $cultures, array('id' => 'lang'));

6. add select_culture_tag function in apps/backend/lib/helper/UtilsHelper.php :

function select_culture_tag($name, $selected = null, $cultures = array(), $options = array())
{
$c = new sfCultureInfo(sfContext::getInstance()->getUser()->getCulture());
if (! is_array($cultures)) {
$cultures = $c->getCultures();
}

if ($culture_option = _get_option($options, 'cultures'))
{
foreach ($cultures as $key => $value)
{
if (!in_array($key, $culture_option))
{
unset($cultures[$key]);
}
}
}

asort($cultures);

$option_tags = options_for_select($cultures, $selected);

return select_tag($name, $option_tags, $options);
}

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• Lots of great photos

If you know of any more good sources of information, let me know

Hmm what to do today. As I’m in Barcelona, I think I’ll have lunch at Quimet & Quimet, a wonderful little tapas bar in Poble Sec. Or maybe I’ll just spend the rest of the morning looking out over Plaça Vicenç Martorell here at Chelo, with another one of their amazing fruit juices.

Back to work on monday. What joy!

I’ve never been very good at flying, this is the sort of thing that makes me more sure than ever that we’re better off with both feet on the ground.

So it’s good to know that there are more and more vegetarian restaurants appearing in Paris, here are a couple of vegetarian resources I’ve found recently:

• Paris organic and vegetarian restaurant guide
• Paris vegetarian – a blog written by an American in Paris
• v3ggie.com – A vegetarian search engine, with geographic options

I also discovered v3ggie.com, a vegetarian search engine which gives interesting results, and has a greate recipe search feature.

“We all know that tea is one of lifes essentials, and I for one can’t help having a deep suspicion of anyone that doesn’t like tea”

Well I’d agree with that!