[ANNOUNCEMENT] Translation2-2.0.0beta1 (beta) Released.

The new PEAR package Translation2-2.0.0beta1 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- - BC break! Run the example to see what's new - refactoring in progress: added a Decorator class and some subclasses to control the output (now you can set a stack of fallback languages, a filter to deal with empty strings, one or more cache layers...) - improved gettext support (thanks to Michael Wallner) - added gettext admin class - fixes in the db admin classes - when adding a new string, if it matches one already in the db, the old one is replaced by the new one. - added a MDB2 container - added a DB_DataObject container (by Alan Knowles) Package Info ------------- This class provides an easy way to retrieve all the strings for a multilingual site from a data source (i.e. db). The following containers are provided, more will follow: - PEAR::DB - PEAR::MDB - PEAR::MDB2 - gettext - PEAR::DB_DataObject (experimental) It is designed to reduce the number of queries to the db, caching the results when possible. An Admin class is provided to easily manage translations (add/remove a language, add/remove a string). Currently, the following decorators are provided: - CacheLiteFunction (for file-based caching) - CacheMemory (for memory-based caching) - DefaultText (to replace empty strings with their keys) - Lang (resort to fallback languages for empty strings) - SpecialChars (replace html entities with their hex codes) Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Translation2 Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package-changelog.php?package=Translation2 Download: http://pear.php.net/get/Translation2-2.0.0beta1.tgz Authors ------------- Lorenzo Alberton <l.alberton@quipo.it> (lead)