[Slashcode-development] How to best make sumit button translations code-independent ?

[Oliver M. B. <ol...@fa...>]

Hi!

I'm currently working on migrating my site to the 2_3 code base, adopting
it for usage with multi-byte character encodings and making it more
translation friendly.

One problem I'm having is with the various submit buttons. Most submit
buttons are like this:

<input type="submit" name="op" value="Preview"/>

If I want to translate the button's text, I have to change *.pl's
$ops . I used to do that in 2.2.x but there has to be a better way
to make button labels code-independend.

Forms where there is only one submit button, "op" could be made
a hidden field but forms with multiple buttons (especially those
sharing a input field) currently can't be translated without changing
code.

How about making "op" indipendent of the <input/>'s value? E.g. There
would be
<input type="submit" name="op_post" value="Something" /> and
<input type="submit" name="op_submit" value="Else" />

and these get decoded into op=post or op=submit before it reaches
*.pl's main(), maybe in Slash::Utility::Environment::filter_params().
That way, the neccersary compatibility changes would be minimal.

What do others think? I'll produce a patch if such a change is
acceptable for merge.

-- 
	Oliver M. Bolzer

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