Re: simplifying raiseError

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Tomas V.V.Cox wrote: > Brent Cook wrote: > > > > > A current limitation of the PEAR Error system is that it can't handle > > > dynamic error messages: "The max value is [int]" (and of course [int] > > > may change its position in the string in a different language). So I > > > guess we would need a system that can accept data to "bind" to the error > > > message and placeholders for the messages (I'd vote for the gettext > > > style): > > > > > > $this->raiseError("The max value is %s", null, null, $max); > > > or > > > $this->raiseError(null, SOME_CODE, null, $max); > > > > Do I misunderstand you, or would this not suffice? > > > > $this->raiseError("The max value is $max"); > > > > Please re-read the part of this email I wrote. When $max is dynamic you > can't integrate it into a translation system. For ex: > > english: "The max value is %s" > spanish: "%s es el valor maximo" > > One can't have "$max" strings to translate :-) Of course if the string > is static: "Max value reached", just doing $this->raiseError("Max value > reached") will be enough. So, something like this then: $this->raiseError(sprintf(_("The max value is %s"), $max)); Would not the gettext() call move the %s for processing with sprintf()? - Brent