Re: Re[2]: [PHP] How to do i18n better?

On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 13:34 +0300, Andre Polykanine wrote: > Hi Ash, > > Yepp, it's understood. But how exactly did you store the > language-specific strings: in an array or using another way? > > > -- > With best regards from Ukraine, > Andre > Skype: Francophile; Wlm&MSN: arthaelon @ yandex.ru; Jabber: arthaelon @ jabber.org > Yahoo! messenger: andre.polykanine; ICQ: 191749952 > Twitter: m_elensule > > ----- Original message ----- > From: Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> > To: Jason Pruim <lists@pruimphotography.com> > Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 2:17:47 AM > Subject: [PHP] How to do i18n better? > > On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 19:17 -0400, Jason Pruim wrote: > > > On Apr 18, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Andre Polykanine wrote: > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I posted this in the PHP-i18n list, however got no answer so trying > > > here). > > > We are making a blog platform (http://oire.org/) which is provided in > > > several languages (currently they are Russian, Ukrainian, and > > > English). > > > Now the i18n process is made as follows: we set a cookie on the site > > > and depending on it we select the language to display the site in. We > > > have three (currently) interface files: rus.lng, ukr.lng, and enu.lng > > > (for English US). the format is the following: > > > define ("MSG379", "Welcome!"); > > > etc. I know that PHP does support somehow exporting the strings into a > > > .pod file. Maybe it would be better to do that? If so, how can I do > > > it? > > > Could you suggest me maybe a better solution than we currently have? > > > Thanks a lot! > > > > I've never actually had to do this... But one idea that I came up with > > is using the browser language in taking a best guess at what language > > to display... In other words, if the user's browser language is set to > > Chinese, you can be fairly certain they read Chinese :) > > > > And now that I typed that out, I realize that may not be what you are > > really looking for... And that's when we get into the part where I > > can't help alot because I've never had to do it :) > > > > So good luck! :) > > > > > > > > > > > That's the check I did on the last site i worked on (vicestyle.com) The > user agent string is checked for a language and the site uses that. If > none is found (bearing in mind that there's no hard and fast rule about > what can go into a UA string) then it defaults to English. > > Links within the site itself allow the user to change their language > afterwards, and you could store that in a cookie to it remembers their > choice. > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > > The differences were stored in an array with a file per language like so: $lang['Welcome'] = 'Welcome'; $lang['Contact'] = 'Contact'; and in a a different file for German maybe: $lang['Welcome'] = 'Willkommen'; $lang['Contact'] = 'Kontakt'; Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk