Hi all,
I need to set up a bilingual site.
No problem for the site messages (menus and viart messages)
But how can I present a product description in 2 different languages?
I would like to show description in language 1 to user that choose language 1 and description in language 2 to users that choose language 2.
Is this possible?

Just do the following using the start and finish language tags
 
 
Blue with ten legs
 
You can select the language from the language selector block on the home page or use an index page with a couple of flags and use a map to select the input language ...
 
<map name="Map">
<area shape="rect" coords="253,377,355,403" href="index.php?language_code=it">
<area shape="rect" coords="253,345,355,371" href="index.php?language_code=fr">
<area shape="rect" coords="252,313,354,339" href="index.php?language_code=en">
</map>

..or use an index page.. I should have said "...or use an index.html page.."
 
(If you need an index.html page with a <map> to select the language as the front page to your site you also have to add
 
DirectoryIndex index.html
 
to an 'htaccess file so visitors pick the index.html page _before_ the index.php page.)

Thanks very much
Already tried and it works smoothly!

Ned, which file are you talking about here? I want English to be by default, and I want to represent 2 other languages. If a user select a language other then English, I do not want them to see any English at all. How can I for example edit the IntroMessage, Custom blocks etc. for non-english page visitors? Which file needed to be edit? Thanks
 
 
 
Just do the following using the start and finish language tags
 
 
Blue with ten legs

Create each page or article or description with the languages you want for example -
"Blue with ten legs"
gives you English, French and Italian descriptions.
 
The initial language setting is in "includes/var_definition.php" as "$default_language" and this is set to English (en) when you install ViArt.
 
So when a visitor accesses your site they will _only_ see all text between the .. markers on every page that has it because the default language is "en".
 
Go to "Administration > Static Tables > Languages" and select the two other languages you want along with English and you have created language descriptions for - in my example - French and Italian.
This then creates a "languages block" with the selected languages represented by the 3 flags.
 
You can then include the "languages block" on pages by using "Administration > CMS > CMS Settings" and selecting the "languages" block on the pages you want it.
 
This allows the user to select a different site language by clicking on the flag. They then only see the text between the language markers they want - for example in Italian between the markers.
 
If you want the site language selection on entering the site put the language block on the home page.
 
Importantly the markers also work in "Administration > CMS > Layouts > Site navigation" allowing you to create menus that are specific to languages.