New to Moodle, but old coder (ASM for 30 years, and PHP for more than 10 years), I'm working on a Moodle web site and see a "strange feature"...
When I create a course, I can change the language for that course. But, it seems we can't set a language for categoryies That's pretty bad!
My web site will have about 10 courses, available in 3 languages; meaning 30 courses.
Or course, I can build a multi-language course by using the LANG tag, but to update and correct the course, that's so-so.
The easiest way is to create Course-1 in English, copy it, translate and get Course-1 in French and so on.
But on my home page, I don't want the English user to see Portugues or French course. And actually, Moodle display everything...
My opinion is that the easiest way would be to add a LANG field (eg. cat_lang schar(255)) in the course category database wih feature like that:
If empty, display for all languages. Else, the field contain a string with language codes, coma separated. So if you have only the french language code, you'll see the course in the summary, only if you are on French setting. But if you set, in the cat_lang, the language code for Portuges AND English, you will see, on the summary, this category if you are on Portugues OR English setting.
If this feature already existe, please tell me, or if someone made a hack for that... In case of "NO" answer, I will try to find a few hours to do that.
Best regards
PL Lamballais (aka Fiercy-Rabbit)