[Phpug] PHP & DB Design Questions

[Słaby, Michał]

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 19:57 +0000, AJ McKee wrote:
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> The first issue is the localisation issue. I know I could use gettext 
> but this are many issues around its usage, so what are the options for 
> decient localisation within PHP? Anyone got ideas.

Hi AJ,

You can take a look at my custom crafted i18n subsystem. It is part of
Tigermouse framework, but being loosely coupled can be easily extracted
as a standalone functionality.

The basic idea is to use __('some text') function to get translation of
'some text'. The translation however is not a string, it is an object
that can be serialized to string via __toString() magic method. You
don't have to care about case conversion as it is up to PHP engine.

When __() function is used a translation object is returned and given
string is registered for further translation (this is called lazy load).
When the first translation object is converted to string, all previously
registered strings are loaded at one time. There are two backends
currently - database and flat file based, but you can easily extend to
use custom backend. See http://tigermouse.epsi.pl for more.


Good luck with you app,
Michael


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