Re: localisation in web applications

Hello Alex, >I have thought about doing it a couple of ways with binarycloud (though I >have not had the opportunity to do so): I will have a look at binarycloud the next days. Our project is in a final state now and I think it is not very easy to adapt the application in a new environment. So this way is not very comfortable for me now. But thank you for the hint. >for single language sites, we call a module, which automatically includes a >markup template (html for a form, or whatever) - we have the ability to pass >in configuration arrays to modules, so you could just point it at a >different template... that can be a bit of a pain, because you have to make >structural changes to all of the html, but html changes can be made _very_ >quickly. >or, better, you _could_ use xml files that are loaded up by the module, and >more abstracted html templates, so the module loads up the xml, which >contains all the language strings, and sets a bunch of variables with text >values, and those values get passed in to the markup print functions in the >html template, which echoes them in the right places. That's the way I thought about: building arrays which contain all the language dependent strings and so on. The idea is to give a extracted language file to a translator (someone who don't have knowledge about programming, php ...) and get back a translated file. Unfortunately the file have to be mixed with php-code, defining variables/arrays etc. . So I don't have a really extracted php-independent file. That's the reason why I thought about xml. With xml - that's my idea - I can extract all strings from my application, put it in a xml representation. Then I can use the ability from xml to present the strings in a different way for a better translation. I you have any hints about this idea, please let me know. Greetings Juergen (please excuse my english) >-- >Alex Black, Head Monkey >enigma@turingstudio.com > >The Turing Studio, Inc. >http://www.turingstudio.com > >vox+510.666.0074 >fax+510.666.0093 > >Saul Zaentz Film Center >2600 Tenth St Suite 433 >Berkeley, CA 94710-2522 > > > > >> From: kaatz@e-commerceit.de (Juergen Kaatz) >> Newsgroups: php.general >> Date: 18 Dec 2000 10:51:50 -0800 >> Subject: [PHP] localisation in web applications >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm looking for an existing tool, idea ... to localize a webapplication for >> different languages. >> >> At the moment I have a directory structure, that calls different language >> dependent inc-files from a "en"-dir, a "de"-dir and so on. The big >> disadvantage is, that some of the business logic is inbetween the language >> dependent files. If I have some changes or bug-fixes in the existing >> applications I have to change them in all language dependent subdirs. >> >> (Is there a way, to do this with xml?) >> >> Many thanks for all hints >> Juergen >> ----------------------------- >> Juergen Kaatz >> WWE e-commerce IT GmbH >> Eiffestrasse 462 >> 20537 Hamburg >> URL: http://www.e-commerceit.de/ >> URL: http://www.iets.de/ (Internet Export Trading System) >> kaatz@e-commerceit.de >> Tel: +49-40-2530659-32 >> Tel. +49-40-2530659-0 (Zentrale) >> E-Mail : kaatz@e-commerceit.de >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >> For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >> To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >> > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > ----------------------------- Juergen Kaatz WWE e-commerce IT GmbH Eiffestrasse 462 20537 Hamburg URL: http://www.e-commerceit.de/ URL: http://www.iets.de/ (Internet Export Trading System) kaatz@e-commerceit.de Tel: +49-40-2530659-32 Tel. +49-40-2530659-0 (Zentrale) E-Mail : kaatz@e-commerceit.de