Re: [VuFind-General] Vufind and foreign-language-ILS

[Katharina W. <wol...@fh...>]

Hi again,

can anybody tell me, where exactly this global translate()-function is located
in vufind?
The documentation doesn't say and I want to look at how it's done in order to
crib it for my own function in the other direction... :-)

Kate

Am 29.05.2012 13:54 schrieb Katharina Wolkwitz:
> Hi Oliver,
> 
> I've managed to find the translate()-function in the vufind-documentation. ;-)
> 
> I'm afraid that this function (though good to know of it) wouldn't help me solve
> my current problem, since it only translates _into_ the language currently
> defined in web/conf/config.ini (for me that would be from English into German)
> whereas I need translation from my current language _into_ English, so that
> vufind in turn can translate the "term/phrase" into whatever language I want to
> display.
> 
> I think it would be nice if vufind were to be able to translate in both
> directions (from English into the local language and from the local language
> into English), but at the moment, that isn't the case. Perhaps that would be
> something for vufind 2.x?
> 
> Kate
> 
> Am 29.05.2012 12:26 schrieb Oliver Goldschmidt:
>> Hi Katharina,
>>
>> I think there is no need for another translation method located in the
>> driver or anywhere else. There are already two places to make
>> translations: at the driver or (IMO the better place for something like
>> that) in the template. Vasek showed the place where to translate terms
>> in the template (its just a smarty function).
>>
>> >From my understanding translation works this way: the term originally
>> recieved by the ILS-driver is set into the frontend. If the driver
>> translates it (using $foo->translate()), the term is presented
>> translated. The template takes the term recieved by the record driver
>> (which is calling the template). On this level the translate method
>> might be called again (using {$foo|translate}).
>>
>> It maybe good to see the strings the driver returns as variable names,
>> not as terms. These variables can be translated in any language using
>> the ini files. So your driver could send any variable name you want and
>> there is no need to set a (translated) term.
>>
>> Hope that helps!
>> Oliver
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