[ANNOUNCEMENT] Translation2-2.0.0beta3 (beta) Released.

The new PEAR package Translation2-2.0.0beta3 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- - Welcome to the new developers, Ian Eure and Michael Wallner - The last release contained an old gettext driver (bug #2503) (ieure) - Many portability fixes applied to the database containers (thanks to Ian Eure and Xavier Lembo for their suggestions and patches) - Minor changes to the table definitions for better portability (lowercase field names, VARCHAR instead of CHAR, bigger field size) - setLang() now returns an error if called with an unknown $langID (bug #2498). - Added $cleaningFrequency option to the CacheLiteFunction to implement statistic cache cleaning - Added Translation2_Admin::cleanCache() method to clean the cache on demand. It is automatically triggered after a change if $options['autoCleanCache'] is TRUE. - Big cleanup of the DB and Admin_DB containers. See CVS changelog for details. (ieure) - Added update() method to Translation2_Admin. This is a BC break; you used to be able to update strings with add(). This is no longer possible, use update(). (ieure) - Re-added a check in add() to see if an update() is needed instead of an insert - String ID columns are created as type TEXT to support gettext-style string IDs. (ieure) - Reflect the changes made to the DB container into the MDB and MDB2 containers too, plus other minor fixes/optimizations. - strings_default_table may use %s to represent the language name. You may now have one table per language without having to explicitly specify them all. (ieure) - DefaultText decorator has new getStringID() method, which will return the string which was requested if no stringID exists. This mirrors the gettext() semantics. (ieure) - Added Admin_Decorator class, which allows you to create Decorators for Translation2_Admin. (ieure) - New 'Autoadd' Admin Decorator, which automatically adds requested strings. (ieure) - Removed translate(), added getStringID(). You can mimic the old behaviour in two steps: $stringID = $tr->getStringID('mystring', 'mypage'); $translatedString = $tr->get($stringID, 'mypage', $otherLangID); - Major cleanup of the gettext container and added some examples (mike) - removeLang() was missing. Fixed. - The gettext container no longer require the gettext extension (thanks to Sergey Korotkov); it is used when loaded, though, since it's faster. - Both .mo and .po files are valid data sources for the gettext container (Sergey Korotkov) - New Iconv decorator based on the one written by Sergey Korotkov - Added a new "encoding" column to the langsAvail table - New xml container by Olivier Guilyardi 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 - XML - 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) - Iconv (to switch from/to different encodings) - Lang (resort to fallback languages for empty strings) - SpecialChars (replace html entities with their hex codes) - UTF-8 (to convert UTF-8 strings to ISO-8859-1) Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Translation2 Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Translation2/download/2.0.0beta3 Download: http://pear.php.net/get/Translation2-2.0.0beta3.tgz Authors ------------- Lorenzo Alberton <l.alberton@quipo.it> (lead) Ian Eure (developer) Michael Wallner <mike@php.net> (developer)