Andre Polykanine wrote:
Hi everyone,
I posted this in the PHP-i18n list, however got no answer so trying
here).
We are making a blog platform (http://oire.org/) which is provided in
several languages (currently they are Russian, Ukrainian, and
English).
Now the i18n process is made as follows: we set a cookie on the site
and depending on it we select the language to display the site in. We
have three (currently) interface files: rus.lng, ukr.lng, and enu.lng
(for English US). the format is the following:
define ("MSG379", "Welcome!");
etc. I know that PHP does support somehow exporting the strings into a
.pod file. Maybe it would be better to do that? If so, how can I do
it?
Could you suggest me maybe a better solution than we currently have?
Thanks a lot!
A lot of systems just use conditional includes and a language array. So
the following:
Some main file:
<?php
$lang = tell_me_what_the_lang_code_is();
require_once( "lang/messages.$lang.php" );
?>
And then in lang/messages.eng.php:
<?php
$messages['Welcome!'] = 'Welcome!';
$messages['login-label'] = 'Login:';
$messages['blah-blah'] = 'Blah blah';
?>
And then in lang/messages.fra.php you might have:
<?php
$messages['Welcome!'] = 'Bienvenu!';
$messages['login-label'] = 'Accès :';
$messages['blah-blah'] = 'Le blah blah';
?>
There's lots of variations on this also, but the above is a very common
method.
Cheers,
Rob.
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