RE: [PHP] language files

Hi there > -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan A [mailto:ryan@coinpass.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 5:37 AM > have you ever double entered the same words? Well, if You do that, the later is the overwriting the previous ;) > eg: > $lang['login_username'] = 'Username: '; > $lang['login_password'] = 'Password: '; > .... (much further down) > $lang['login_username'] = 'Enter username: '; > > and using the above method I bet that sometimes the key in the array gets > pretty big (if you are trying to put a hint of the context in > too)...correct > me if i'm wrong, i'm just guessing here. > > The problem I feel is, when you are making the script everyhing is fresh > in > your mind and you are unlikely to make silly mistakes like the example one > above, but come back to a script after a few months and its an entirely > different story, esp if you have been working on other projects in > between... You´re right. The solution to this issue is to use a database and have the field containg the key for $lang set as unique. But then You will have new issues to think through, like database load. Fetch from database on each page request? Or put all translations in a SESSION? Then what if You adds new translations and a user enters that page with the old SESSION? And so and so A much better solution is to have a GOOD procedure when adding new word and pages. It´s fairly easy to search the translation document for the new keyword like login_username to see if it´s available, right? It doesn´t take that much effort to maintain that procedure ;-) If You think so maybe a database api, where You enter a new keyword and the text, and if that is inserted well, then the api generates a new list. I was programmer and project manager on translation when the ISP World Online was using the Denmark site/system to start up in Norway and Sweden. Our solution was a function, that fetched the data from a text file in a sub dir (da/se/no) set by a configfile. I´ve later improved the solution when creating a Multilanguage site for a bar in Cyprus. You can have a look at gg.emax.dk and the langfile is here: http://gg.emax.dk/language/UK/lngfile.txt -- Med venlig hilsen / best regards ComX Networks A/S Kim Madsen Systemudvikler/systemdeveloper