[Phpug] l10n and i18n

[Pádraic Brady]

Hi AJ,

In the grand scheme of PHP, any Locale change during a user's request only lasts for that request and effects no others. The exception would be if Locale settings (e.g. for mbstring) were set globally in php.ini.
 
Pádraic Brady

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----- Original Message ----
From: AJ McKee <aj.mckee at druid-dns.com>
To: Irish PHP User Group <phpug at lists.iephpug.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:56:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Phpug] l10n and i18n


Joe,

If your app is not already using a framework, you may find it a tad 
harder to start again. In that case use gettext.

E.G.
<?php
|  setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fr_FR');|
    echo __("Hello");
?>

The nice thing about using gettext is you can write in your native 
language and let the translators work it out. Great for status messages
 
etc, but not when pulling paragraphs etc out of the DB.

Another handy tool, unless you are translating yourself is POEdit.

This raises a question for me though if anyone with better expeirnce 
could help answer. When the locale is set for a use session, does it 
affect the Apache child serving the request, or would it be okay. I 
can't remember where I heard this one from, but its always in the back 
of my mind and it may well be complete tripe. If someone can clarify
 for 
me that would be great.

AJ
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