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From: "Vincent DUPONT" <Vincent.dupont@xxxxxxx>
To: <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 10:33 PM
Subject: gettext online editor?
hello,
for translating our web applications, we use to create an XML file with
the labels; one label for each entry; one file for each language.
This let us:
1. create one file (in french) and let someone do the translations
2. provide the 'key users' (admins) of the application a php page that can
be used to edit/change these translations
3. include the xml files into our cvs so that changes are managed
4. provide a new language to the application simply by adding the
corresponding file
if needed, we can split the file on a functional basis to reduce the
amount of data to be loaded.
Most of the time however, we simply have some form labels, feedback
messages, menu items : less than 50 labels per page.
So this works very well.
Recently a collegue showed us gettext. As it seems very powerful, the main
disadvantage I can see is that translations files are not directly
editable. The admin users cannot edit the files and correct/change the
translations.
Moreover, we work mainly on windows and I'd rather minimize the number of
softwares needed by the developers to do their work (php editor, oci,
mysql, mssql clients, cvs, svn, firefox, moz, ie, uml editor, ... so many
already!)
So my question is:
do you know if there is any way of editing the gettext translation files
from a http page? I mean, without the need to execute a 'compile' (or
whatever) action on the webserver.
You might want to check PHP-gettext at
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/php-gettext/. Since it reads external
gettext files and stores them internally in PHP data structures (well,
arrays) you might patch their data structures. Anyway, it might not be
better than your current setup.
do you have any comment on translating the applications?
.... yes, but they are in Spanish,
(http://www.satyam.com.ar/blog/2007/01/17/internacionalizacion-y-localizacion-indice/)
sorry, Europeans often are multi-lingual, perhaps ...
of course gettext seems powerful, with caching an so on. But I really
believe the new SimpleXML can load a translation file very quickly, and
php offers enough functionalities to do cache of the labels in the current
language...
thank you
Vincent
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