ABOUT

This behavior will pick between multilingual information stored in a database and store it in a variable that can be used in a view. This is much less complicated than CakePHP's current default implementation of i18n functionality that requires storing extra information in separate tables. It is also more intuitive.

USAGE

Each column should have the same name followed by a suffix to describe the language, for example:

blogpost_eng
blogpost_jpn
blogpost_rus
title_eng
title_jpn
title_rus

The current language should also be stored inside of the $_SESSION['Config']['language'] global variable without the underscore ie: eng, jpn.

Attach the behaviour to your model using:

public $actsAs = array (
	'Translatable' => array(
		'translatableFields' => array('blogpost', 'title')
	)
); 

When you perform a find on the database while the session is English you will get something like this:

blogpost_eng => 'English Text'
blogpost_jpn => 'Japanese Text'
blogpost_rus => 'Russian Text'
title_eng    => 'English Title'
title_jpn    => 'Japanese Title'
title_rus    => 'Russian Title'

After the behavior has run you will get this added to your results

title    => 'English Title'
blogpost => 'English Text'

You can use $title and $blogpost in your view to enable simple multi-lingual funcitonality.

KNOWN LIMITATIONS

This behavior only supports recursive 1 finds. Anything lower than that will be ignored. This is good enough for most cases and my needs. Adding recursive translating would have reduced performance when it is not needed.