Re: [Web-erp-developers] Translation of sentence with parameters...

[Hani N. <ha...@na...>]

Hi guys just a thought,
When we did this stuff in OA we felt there was a strong
requirement not to require gettext compiled into php. I am not sure
it should have been such a strong requirement, but I did not want to
have to install it at home and my stupid host did not have it installed at
the time (he has it now). I also don't think it hurts anyway, so you might
as well have it.
We used this:
http://phptal.sourceforge.net/bagpack/GetText/
I modified it slightly to remove the dependency to pear and also created
a lang.php which created a few shortcut functions (like _() which used
GetText).

It also provides all this variable stuff. For example

_set("name",$name);
_set("occupation",$occupation);
echo _("${name} works as a ${occupation}");

Once you guys settle on the approach I can give you a hand with some scripts
although you would have to let me know which ones :)

Good luck,
Hani


luc...@pd... wrote:

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>Hello all.
>As stated in my previous message, I was trying to solve the problem of sentences with one or more parameters. As an example just consider -"Display ". $ModuleName . " options:"- in www_users.
>Here's my proposed solution.
>I am using special tags in the tobetranslated and translated sentence, i.e :
>ENGLISH: Display __Parameter1__ options 
>ITALIAN: Mostra opzioni per il modulo __Parameter1__ 
>
>when I have to translate this sentence I make this call:
>translate('Display __Parameter1__ options',$ModuleName)
>
>Here's the definition of the function translate:
>function translate($idOfLabelToBeTranslated)
>{
>   global $lang;
>   if ($lang[$idOfLabelToBeTranslated]!=null){
>      $numargs = func_num_args();
>      if($numargs >1){
>        $arg_list = func_get_args();
>        $returnString=$lang[$idOfLabelToBeTranslated];
>        for ($i = 0; $i < $numargs; $i++) {
>          //echo "Argument $i is: " . $arg_list[$i] . "<br />\n";
>          $returnString = str_replace('__Parameter'.$i.'__',$arg_list[$i],$returnString);
>        }
>        return $returnString;
>      }
>      else //number of arguments is 1
>         return $lang[$idOfLabelToBeTranslated];
>   }
>   else //there is no translated label in the array
>     return $idOfLabelToBeTranslated;
>}
>
>As you can see it takes a variable number of arguments. If we have more than 1 argumentes, i.e. some parameters have to be inserted in the sentence, it simply gets the translated label, which contains the varios strings __Parameter1__ ... __ParameterN__. Then it substitutes the parameter string with the values passed as arguments.
>
>The main concern I still have on this solution is:
>"__ParameterN__" as the tobereplaced string is cabled, thus every translator has to keep in mind to strictly use this formalism. Of course any suggestion on how to choose a formalism wich can be surely not confused with any real life word, will be appreciated.
>
>
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