Multiple countries & multilingual e-commerce platforms using Drupal
Building a multilingual & multi-country e-commerce site with Drupal 7 @ NYC Camp 2014
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MULTINATIONAL & MULTILINGUAL REUSABLE E-COMMERCE PLATFORM CASE STUDY
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Building a multilingual & multi-country e-commerce site with Drupal 7
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MULTINATIONAL & MULTILINGUAL
REUSABLE E-COMMERCE
PLATFORMCASE STUDY
Maxime Topolov, @mtopolov CTO & Co-Founder of @Adyax
Arthur Murauskas, Associate Director & Drupal Architect @Adyax
OBJECTIVES
An e-commerce site connected to SAP with rich editorial content, managing multiple countries and languages, where each country is independent, where the content must be validated by France
except some...
Fluid front-end, that must work with IE6...
Guerlain
Make Up For EverAn e-commerce ready site that will be connected to Biz-Talk with rich editorial content, managing multiple countries and languages, where each country is independent, where the content must be validated by France
easy, right?
Full responsive with IE7 supportLOTS of huge HD images
KEY NUMBERS
2,500
1625
2ERP, INCLUDING SAP
COUNTRIES, INCLUDING CHINA
LANGUAGES, INCLUDING JAPANESE
PRODUCT REFERENCES
70
1215
15,000 MAN HOURS
MONTHS OF DEVELOPMENT
PEOPLE
TEMPLATES 57 CONTENT TYPES
BASIC TECHNIQUES
Main features
A single Drupal instance for all the sites.
Site launch is progressive, country by country.
Export and import of content in Excel format.
Certain sites will be e-commerce, others won’t.
Robust translation and publication workflow with alerts.
COUNTRIES & LANGUAGES
CANADA
FRANCE
SPAIN
CHINA
FR2 EN
FR3
ES
CN
SWITZERLAND FR1 IT DE
Country Country code Language Language codeInternational in EN int English en
France fr French frUS us English US en-usUK uk English UK en-uk
Middle-East me English Middle East en-meChina cn Chinese zh
Hong Kong hk Chinese zh-hkEnglish en-hk
Spain es Spain esCanada ca Canadian French fr-ca
Canadian English en-caRussia ru Russian ruKorea ko Korean krTaiwan tw Simplified Chinese zh-twJapan jp Japanese jaBrazil br Brazilian Portuguese ptItaly it Italian it
Germany ge German de
Management of languages based on several very standard Drupal modules:
Localization Client (i10n_client)
Translation Template Extractor (potx)
Entity Translation (entity_translation)
Why entity_translation?
It’s logical :)
There are no “duplicate” translation nodes
Entity translation is in D8 Core
Not all the fields should be translated
Three features were essential:
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2
3
A ‘central’ country where all original content is first created
Possibility of copying all content of one language to another
Notification of countries in case of modification of any content in the ‘central’ country
Each country can be identified either by its domain (guerlain.co.uk), or by a URL key (guerlain.com/fr)
OK, but what is a country?
Each country has specific settings, admin users
The Domain Access module (domain) offers this feature on a platter.
Copy and pre-fill translations from source
Copy structure: menu, taxonomy, etc
EN-EN
EN-US EN-CA FR-FR
FR-BE
No revisions (btw, entity_translation do not support them). Country editors are responsible and have two versions at their disposal (draft & published)
Content workflow
When we say “content translation gets published”, it means: • Original language / Central: content is available for the
Countries' local translations; • Country local languages: content translation is available online
for the website users.
Translation workflow
Problem 1: customisation of forms (contact us, newsletter) according to countries.
Problem 2: difficulties with interface translation
Take-home message:
Building the best possible, scalable multilanguage-multicountry perfect solution, with overrides, notifications, permissions and complex workflow works fine but IS NOT USED. !
Client wants less features and a simple workflow, even if it requires more manual work from their contributors.
GEOLOCATION
Guerlain.com/es Guerlain.com/fr
CDN
VARNISH
NGNIX
Guerlain.comJS
MaxMind
IMPORT / EXPORT of content
Import of Products & SKUs with their Media
Import of Categories
Import of Stores
The Excel 97 - Excel 2003 Binary file format (BIFF8)
We tried many formats to support XLS, one that works with common PHP libs in most of cases is :
Feeds used to import data.
SKUs as well as products could have multiple photos, so we also have: !
A ZIP archive with media organized into folders product/product-ID/xxxxx.jpeg or sku/sku-ID/xxxxx.jpeg
ERP INTEGRATION
Ord
ers,
Clien
tsSKUs, Stock,
Order Status
XML SOAP
Working with SAP is not complicated, but laborious. One order can be 5000 lines of XML
We have created a tool to send an XML command to SAP, directly from the Drupal back-office !
In addition, we have put into place a log of each communication (to & from) SAP that is visible from the objects concerned (command, user, SKU)
SSL
!
Setup of the Secure Pages module !
Creation of the sub-domain wws !
SSL = User Data (Cart, My-Account)
CDN
VARNISH
NGNIX
DRUPAL
Secure Pages
Secure vs insecure / http vs https !
Start development with activating all https support. Define https urls at the very beginning! Do think about cross-site scripting and AJAX if urls differ. Secured cookies. !
Idea: start thinking secure from the beginning of every project.
SMOOTH FRONT-END
OOOOOPTIMIZATIONS
CDN
VARNISH
NGNIX
DRUPAL
ESI
BLOCS JS
STATIC.GUERLAIN.COM
MEMCACHE
ENTITY CACHE VIEWS CACHE
Never underestimate performance tuning. !
Start first Sprint by activating all performance related modules - memcache, entity-cache, adv-agg, Varnish/purge, etc. !
Test your deliveries with all those that have been activated, measure load/server responses starting from Sprint 1, force your teams to develop in a performance-oriented way. !
Idea: Ecommerce is performance-oriented development.
Countries, Languages, Multi-site system: Re-use of modules !
Import/Export, Workflow: partial re-use !
ERP: connectors to SAP or JDEdwards may be partially exchanged !
Same platform: features may be exchanged
WHY DRUPAL?
Open Source, with the largest community in the world = no lock down !
20,000 existing and modules = maintainable !
Robust and tested: 13 years, White House, The Economist, BBC, Warner… !
Flexible: How to’s, UGC, video sections, personalization, engraving, community, academy, mini-sites…
Number one (or two ;) Drupal Shop in EMEA
Thanks ! You can download slides of this presentation on slideshare !
OR
Throw us rotten tomates !
@Adyax
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