Re: [Phplib-users] Templates and i18n...

[Aric C. <gre...@pe...>]

> OK, I can see where you are going with this. I would approach this
> slightly differently.
>
> I would build a database with the translations in it. Columns like:
> lang char(2), # ISO country code
> varname char(16), # contains the template varname
> trans text,  # the translated text
> with indexes on lang and varname
>
> The template file would contain lots of tags like:
> <h1>{TITLELABEL}</h1>
>
> You can extract all the template varnames from the template file with
> a preg_match_all(). Then loop through the results generating a massive
> SQL query which pulls all the text translations required for that page
> out of the database with one query. Then loop through the SQL result
> set and call $t->set_var($db->f('varname'), $db->f('trans')) for each
> record.

And that's why you have the getText() method which you can replace with
whatever method you choose -- be it loading a language file or doing a SQL
query.  To support your method of doing a "massive SQL query" the getText()
method could be required to accept a string or an array of all the strings
in the template.  I'm not sure of the most efficient way to do all this.  I
was thinking something like doing a preg_replace_callback() and using the
getText() method as the callback.

>
> Your PHP script wouldn't even need to know the template varnames :)

That's pretty much the whole idea. :)