[Phpwebsite-developers] Re: New Language Construct

[Randall H. W. <rh...@ea...>]

Regarding the new language constructs:

I have this week been (mostly to exercise my PHP muscles) a translation
database maintenance module for 0.8.x (The purpose was that the ??.pp files
could be generated from a database before building phpWebSite and that
anyone could suggest translations although a maintainer would need to
approve suggestions before they are included in the builds).

I'll have it done this weekend.

Right now it uses mod_translation_* for its own purposes and
i18n_translation_modname and i18n_translation_core for the translation
tables.

It includes an i18n (internationalization/localization) class that can
handle translations and maybe in the future other
internationalization/localization tasks (like numerical and date/time
formatting).

The current call is $i18n->translate($string). By including the function in
a class, I can cache translation calls to reduce the number of db
calls...but call the db to translate any string required...

I can think of a couple of reasons to store the translations in the
database:
1)  files full of code do not have to be maintained.
2)  translations can be updated off the web without having to download, FTP
    and install a file.
3)  translations do not have to sync with the English updates. Code can be
    updated, patched, whatnot and translations can come later, if need be...

I hope you find this rambling helpful...
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Randall Wood
rh...@ma...