Database documentation

  • Resolved andiwand

    (@andiwand)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Chouby!

    Fist, I want to thank you for this awesome plugin. Thanks!
    I’m currently porting a website to wordpress where multilingual is a must. I don’t want to do this by hand because it’s a mass of content.
    I’m using xml rpc for this, which works pretty well so far. My problem now is that I don’t really know how to add the polylang information to the database.

    I found out that these three tables are relevant for polylang: wp_terms, wp_term_relationships, wp_term_taxonomy.
    The taxonomies I saw so far are: language, term_language, term_translation, post_translation.
    So what I read from that is that “language” tells the post (or what ever) what kind of language its content is. “post_translation” tells each post to which posts with other languages it is related to.
    So far so good. I think the other two are not relevant for what I’m trying to achieve. What I don’t understand is, what the table wp_terms tells me. There are these “pll_xxxxxxxx” names / slugs but I don’t get what it’s linked too. Or isn’t it linked? Does it just have to be unique?

    Thanks in advance!

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/polylang/

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  • Michel – xiligroup dev

    (@michelwppi)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Polylang was the second multilingual plugin to use taxonomy. Some years ago, it introduces a 2nd specific/original taxonomy “post_translations” to link same posts in different languages (links were previously in custom fields). The serialized datas (post-id) are in the description of the term to this taxonomy.
    As author of xili-language, I have create some fonctions to recover ‘PLL’ links between translations. The functions are in xili-includes/pll_functions.php but only usable in xili-language plugins but a good example for you.
    Thanks for your questions, it is an illustration of how the saved datas in DB must easy to be “queriable”. It will be include in our research to define multilingual new/stable rules in WP context.
    Michel

    Thread Starter andiwand

    (@andiwand)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks for your reply!

    I finally found the section of this mystic string in the plugin source. It is just an unique id generated by php function uniqid(“pll_”).
    Now I managed to post something from xmlrpc in multiple languages.

    Andreas

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