Hi!
Here is my solution to globalization. It works good, if you only need a few
languages
It uses simple markup for html and php strings.
Hope this helps.
usages:
require_once( 'localize.inc"); // see belo
1. loc( "en|In English|ru|In Russian|fr|Franci... i don't speak this
language actually :)", "ru" /*this argument can be skipped*/);
Use this notation, if you work with internal strings, such as SQL or PHP
strings.
It's quite simple even for non-programmers (editors and translators) to
use this markup.
2. localize( "<p>Following text is in your language: <glob>en|In
English|ru|In Russian</glob></p>, "en" );
Use this notation for HTML
3. print(localize(implode( "", file("myfile_globalized.html")),
$_REQUEST['locale']));
you can now call this file:
http://localhost/site/myfile.php?locale=en
do not send a file name in arguments, because it violates sequrity
example of globalized file:
------------------------------------
<html>
<head>
<title><glob>en|My Document - English|ru|My Document -
Russian</glob></title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="<glob>en|english.htm|ru|russian.htm</glob>"><glob>en|In
English|ru|In Russian</glob></a>
</body>
</html>
------------------------------------
These <glob> tags are not well formed xml tags!
Current limitation is that <glob></glob> tag cannot span multiple lines
I'm using "UTF-8 without signature" encoding for all my html and php files
------------------------------------------------------- localize.inc
<?php
$default_locale = "en";
function defLocale() { global $default_locale; return $default_locale; }
// add other locales, as you need
$supported_loc = explode(" ", "ru en" );
function search_loc($ag_str)
{
global $supported_loc;
while( list($k, $al) = each( $supported_loc ) ) { if ( preg_match( "/". $al
."/", $ag_str ) ) return $k; } return null;
}
function setup_user_locale()
{
session_start();
global $default_locale;
global $supported_loc;
session_start();
// session_destroy(); // for debug purposes
$key = null;
global $lang_changed;
if ( isset($_SESSION['lang']) && isset($_REQUEST['lang']) && (
$_SESSION['lang'] != $_REQUEST['lang'] ) )
$lang_changed = TRUE;
else
$lang_changed = FALSE;
if ( isset( $_REQUEST['lang'] ) )
{ if ( $_REQUEST['lang']!= '')
{
$key = search_loc( $_REQUEST['lang'] );
$_SESSION['lang']=$_REQUEST['lang'];
}
}
if ( isset( $_SESSION['lang'] ) & ! isset( $key ) ) { if (
$_SESSION['lang']!= '' )
{ $key = search_loc( $_SESSION['lang'] ); } }
if ( ! isset($key) )
{
$key = search_loc( $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] );
}
if ( isset($key) ) $default_locale = $supported_loc[ $key ];
else $default_locale = "en";
}
function loc_try( $in, $required_locale = null )
{
global $default_locale; if ( ! $required_locale ) { $required_locale =
$default_locale; }
$out = "";
// $myPattern = '/('. $required_locale .'\|)([^(\|<)]+)/';
$myPattern = '/('. $required_locale .'\|)([^(\|)]+)/';
preg_match( $myPattern, $in, $matches );
return (count($matches) == 0) ? null : $matches[2];
}
$all_language_dog = "en|text is not translated to your language|ru|????? ??
????????? ?? ??? ????";
// USAGE: loc( "en|In English|ru|In Russian" );
//
function loc( $in, $required_locale = null )
{
global $all_language_dog;
$good = loc_try($in,$required_locale);
if ( ! $good )
{
$last_chance = loc_try( $in, "en" );
return ($last_chance) ? $last_chance : loc( $all_language_dog,
$required_locale );
}
else
{
return $good;
}
}
// syntax: localize( "<glob>en|In English|ru|In Russian</glob>" );
// this function is useful for entire html/xml files
// contents of myfile.php
//
// require( 'localize.inc' );
// print(localize(implode( "", file("myfile_globalized.html")),
$_REQUEST['locale']));//
//
// USAGE: http://www.qqq.org/myfile_localized.php?&locale=ru
function localize( $str, $required_locale = null )
{
global $default_locale; if ( ! $required_locale ) { $required_locale =
$default_locale; }
return preg_replace( "/(<glob>)(.+)(<\/glob>)/eU",
"loc('\\2','$required_locale')", $str );
}
setup_user_locale();
?>
------------------------------------------------------------ end of
localize.inc
------------------------------------------ localize_test.php
<?php
// ?? ??????
require( "localize.inc" );
function mix_query( $new_disasm )
{
$old_disasm = array();
parse_str( $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], $old_disasm );
$super_query = array_merge( $old_disasm, $new_disasm );
$out = array();
foreach( $super_query as $key => $val )
{
if ( $val != "" )
array_push( $out, $key . '=' . $val );
}
$out = implode( "&", $out );
return $out;
}
function mix_path( $new_disasm ) { return path() . '?' . mix_query(
$new_disasm ); }
function path()
{
$p = parse_url( $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] );
return $p['path'];
}
function switch_language()
{
global $supported_loc;
$language_name = array( "en" => "English", "ru" => "Russian" );
?>
<table border="0" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="white">
language
</td>
<?php
foreach ( $supported_loc as $loc )
{
?>
<td bgcolor="<?php
print( ($loc == defLocale() )? "c0c0c0" : "d0d0d0" );
?>">
<?php
print (
( $loc == defLocale() )
? ":[".$language_name[$loc]."]:"
: "<a href=\"". mix_path( array( 'lang' => $loc ) ) ."\">". "::"
.$language_name[$loc]."::"."</a>" );
?>
</td>
<?php
}
?>
</tr>
</table>
<?php
}
?>
<html>
<head><title><?php
print ( loc( "en|English|ru|Russian" ) );
?></title>
</head>
<body>
<pre>
<?php
switch_language();
?>
</pre>
<?php
print ( localize( "This is in English.<font color=\"green\"><glob>en|And
this is in <b>your</b> requested language|ru|Russian Bla bla
bla</glob></font>. Yeah" ) );
?>
</body>
</html>
------------------------------------------- end localize_test.php
"Steve Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
000001c29558$78490ff0$2cfd87d9@extreme">news:000001c29558$78490ff0$2cfd87d9@extreme...
> Hmmmm,
> This seems to be harder than I thought!
>
> Thanks everyone for there help!
>
> Carl this IBM international thing is very interesting, and many thanks
> for telling me about it. Just think it is a lot of work, especially since
I
> want my site to be on in January, not sure I can manage this with my other
> tasks. I will try and research it and maybe use it in the future.
>
> Im probably going to use the Get Text, that Moriyoshi mentioned.
Thanks!
>
> Basically Im an ameture at this international stuff, Iv'e never worked
> on an international project and no idea where to start. I could really do
> with some advice.
>
> I am hosting my site in Germany, and need to know what to tell the
> server admin people. What should I tell them about MySQL and Apache and
PHP
> set up please (on linux).
>
> And for my website, I assumed that you just alter the doctype say from
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> (im using 3.2 but had
> this to hand!) to the equivalent French one. Is this wrong? Do I need to
> specfy character sets and encoding??
>
> Many Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
> > Steve,
> >
> > A couple of years ago I developed extensions for PHP that sound like
what
> > you want. It used ICU http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/ to provide the
> i18n
> > services for PHP.
> >
> > First it also provided an override to the Apache mod_mime services to
> allow
> > it to work like other web servers and allow you to put different
language
> > web pages in different subdirectories rather than require a language
type
> on
> > each page. You can have it override just certain types such as .php
pages
> > only.
> >
> > This way you can have:
> >
> > ../site/en/contents/page.php
> > ../site/fr/contents/page.php
> >
> > or full locales
> >
> > ../site/en-uk/contents/page.php
> > ../site/en-us/contents/page.php
> > ../site/en-ca/contents/page.php
> > ../site/fr-fr/contents/page.php
> > ../site/fr-ca/contents/page.php
> >
> > It sets the locale on a per transaction bases. It will not only work
with
> > Unicode with ICU but it will also work in code pages.
> >
> > You can have a terminal using Shift-JIS and Japanese pages in EUC and
> access
> > a UTF-8 database. The same code will work with any code page or
Unicode.
> >
> > You can see code that I derived from the ICU interface portion of the
code
> > at http://www.xnetinc.com/xiua/
> >
> > The PHP changes also included a way to support charset more dynamically.
> >
> > Carl
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Steve Vernon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 7:20 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: [PHP-I18N] Multiple Languages
> > >
> > >
> > > Hiya,
> > > I'm working on my first international PHP project, which is a
> > > site that
> > > displays differently in different languages. So I guess this is
> > > the place to
> > > ask adive.
> > >
> > > Ive done the code with flags etc so people can select the
> > > country and so
> > > the language. But im not sure about the best way to handle the text
and
> > > things such as meta tages.
> > >
> > > My origional idea was to have multiple include files named
> > > like uk.php,
> > > french.php with seperate variables for the text parts, or do sommat in
> XML
> > > which is basically the same.
> > >
> > > I cant find any sources on the net about best ways to do a site
like
> > > this.
> > >
> > > Help!
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > >
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