Dunno if it's a best practice, but I store all the translations in the
db for easy manipulation and extraction to a file for others to
translate. That obviously involves both import and export utilities.
At work we to the translation in real time thru a render page that
combined the data for the form as well as the labels and buttons.
Personally I disagree with this approach and feel that caching out the
page to either HTML or XML is quicker and cleaner. But that's just me.
A number of pup apps take the approach of storing the label
translations in variables inside language folders ( phpmyadmin has
this ). That is also not a bad approach but is slightly slower and I
can't help but feeling that serving up a static page created by code
is a better solution. It will be heavier on the management side, but
my experience is that this mgmt activity drops off quickly after the
first week or two of that form being in production.
Nth
Bastien
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On Jan 25, 2009, at 14:56, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am writing a small(ish) site which will eventually need to be
available in several different languages. This needs to more or less
transparent to the user, so I am using Apaches content negotiation
features, which is working very well.
The issues arise once I start looking at PHP and Javascript code. I
use
JS for client side input (pre-)validation and increased usability, and
error messages and such will obviously need to be language-sensitive.
The same goes for the PHP code.
With PHP, I've got gettext() for this sort of job, with javascript and
some DHTML, I don't seem to have many options.
One of my key concerns is - for the translation, I need to be able to
wrap everything up and ship it off to a translator, perhaps via elance
or similar.
Does anyone have any best practice suggestions or comments in general?
/Per Jessen, Zürich
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