migrating wordpress from gengo to wpml

marco — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:13:59 +0000

A client of mine used to have a multilingual blog using the Gengo plugin, which I consider by now unfortunatly dead. Fortunately, the guys at http://www.wpml.org did a great job creating a new plugin that works like a charm.

I did the migration from one to the other and I had no troubles (beside figuring out how to map gengo’s model to wpml). Further down are two SQL statements to check and update the posts language in wpml.

IMPORTANT: first disable gengo, then install wpml, then choose the default language and create the languages you had in geng. All your post will now be in the default language. you can check this with this SQL statement (for example using phpMyAdmin)

SELECT post.`ID`, post.`post_title`, wpml.`language_code` AS wpml_language, gengoLang.`code` AS gengo_language
FROM `wp_posts` post
LEFT JOIN `wp_icl_translations` wpml ON wpml.`element_id` = post.`ID`
LEFT JOIN `wp_post2lang` gengo ON gengo.`post_id` = post.ID
LEFT JOIN `wp_languages` gengoLang ON gengoLang.`language_id` = gengo.`language_id`
WHERE wpml.`element_type` ='post'
ORDER BY post.`ID`  DESC;

Then you can update the post language with the following statement:

UPDATE `wp_icl_translations` wpml
LEFT JOIN `wp_posts` post ON wpml.`element_id` = post.`ID`
LEFT JOIN `wp_post2lang` gengo ON gengo.`post_id` = post.ID
LEFT JOIN `wp_languages` gengoLang ON gengoLang.`language_id` = gengo.`language_id`
SET wpml.`language_code` = gengoLang.`code`
WHERE wpml.`element_type` ='post'

This will update your POSTS only, no category or tags yet. I might look at those as well and I’ll get in touch with wpml to see if they can use my snippets to get out a sort of import tool.

cheers Marco

wordpress iphone app with wpml

marco — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:30:34 +0000

I’ve a client using a wordpress multilingual blog with the wpml plugin (wpml.org/) and that wants to use the wordpress iphone app (iphone.wordpress.org). The app and the plugin work like a charm. the only problem is that in the app you can’t set the post language, hence you are (well by now were ) able to post only using the default language.
I wrote a small PHP script to put in the root dir of your blog that updates the default language of the blog when called. so basically before using the iphone app you call the script using safari (http://domain.tdl/blog/set_post_lang.php?to=de) and then use the iphone application to post to your blog.
The script requires minimal configuration, you have to set the blog_id (if you have a single install, 0 should be ok, but you can find this by looking at the wp_options table in the DB) and an array of valid languages. Please note that the script uses no authentication methods, up to you to decide if you want to implement it (very easy actually for example with http_auth or with a key). I didn’t because the script does something very small and irrelevant from the security point of view.
And here the code, enjoy.


/**
 * script to change the default language of a wpml installation
 * so that a new post written from fot example the iphone app is set to the right language
 * 
 * @use call it like this: www.domain.tld/set_post_lang.php?to=it
 * @author Marco Bernasocchi   marco@bernawebdesign.ch
 * @copyright LGPLv3
 */
 
//___________________SETTINGS________________
define("BLOG_ID",  "0"); //id of the blog
$active_languages = array("it", "de"); //use lowercase codes of the languages active in your blog
 
//___________________SCRIPT__________________
require_once('wp-config.php');//used to get hostname, DB, USER & PASSW
 
/*check if the passed language is a valid one*/
$set_to = strtolower($_GET["to"]);
if(!in_array($set_to, $active_languages)) die('invalid language');
 
/*open DB connection */
$mysqli = new mysqli(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME);
/* check connection */
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
    die('DB Connect failed');
}
 
/* get the actual settings of the wpml plugin */
$query = 'SELECT option_value from `'.DB_NAME.'`.`wp_options`
          WHERE CONVERT(`wp_options`.`option_name` USING utf8) = "icl_sitepress_settings"
          AND `wp_options`.`blog_id` = '.BLOG_ID.' 
          LIMIT 1;';
if (($result = $mysqli->query($query)) && $result->num_rows == 1) {
  while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
        $value = $row["option_value"];
  }  
  /* free result set */
  $result->close();
}
else die('Error getting the actual setting');
 
/* check if update needed */
$new_pattern = '"default_language";s:2:"'.$set_to.'"';
$replace = !preg_match("/$new_pattern/",$value);
 
/* change the language then update the DB */
if($replace){
  $pattern = '/"default_language";s:2:"[a-z]{2}"/';
  $value = preg_replace($pattern , $new_pattern, $value, 1);
  $query = 'UPDATE `'.DB_NAME.'`.`wp_options` 
            SET `option_value` = \''.$value.'\'
            WHERE CONVERT(`wp_options`.`option_name` USING utf8) = "icl_sitepress_settings"
            AND `wp_options`.`blog_id` = '.BLOG_ID.'
            LIMIT 1;';
  if ($result = $mysqli->query($query)) {
    echo 'Default post language is now set to '.strtoupper($set_to);
    }
  else echo 'Problem updating the language, please try again';
}
else echo 'Default post language is already set to '.strtoupper($set_to);
//close DB connection
$mysqli->close();
?>

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