[ANNOUNCEMENT] Translation2-2.0.0beta4 (beta) Released.

The new PEAR package Translation2-2.0.0beta4 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- - added a complete TestSuite - updated gettext docs - fixed typo in error code (TRANSLATION_ERROR_UNKNOWN_LANG => TRANSLATION2_ERROR_UNKNOWN_LANG) - fixed typo in the MDB Admin container [quote() => getTextValue()] - fixed typo in db admin containers ($this->queries => $this->_queries) - in the gettext admin container - fixed many bugs in the gettext admin container: * fixed old field [remove "windows", add "encoding"] * fixed error in remove() [can't pass by reference] * fixed typo in update() [$stingID => $stringID] * in _add(), create the domains on demand * handle stale cache - many fixes/updates to the xml container: * init() accepts an array as parameter (not a string) * added 'save_on_shutdown' option (you can choose to save in real time, now) * return Translation2 errors with numeric codes * added 'encoding' field * added removeLang() * other minor fixes and tweaks 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/2.0.0beta4 Download: http://pear.php.net/get/Translation2-2.0.0beta4.tgz Authors ------------- Lorenzo Alberton <l.alberton@quipo.it> (lead) Ian Eure (developer) Michael Wallner <mike@php.net> (developer)