One thing about this I would do differently would be use descriptive labels:
<labels>
<hello>Hello</hello>
</labels>
and then a corresponding spanish one...
<labels>
<hello>Hola</hello>
</labels>
So that the text in my code could read a bit clearer:
#labels.hello# #session.usernmae#,
Just as I prefer descriptive variable names :)
- Calvin
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 3:04 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: translating websites
i did the same exact thing, but rather than do the
lookups/translations all the time, i do it once onApplicationStart
(using the new application.cfc) read the translations into memory, and
then whenever i need to display a label i make that call to the
application variable structure that is the locale the user has
selected.
and just like andy, i have an english.xml and a spanish.xml, and could
add any others to the mix.
and rick...
its as simple for me as...
<labels>
<one>Hello</one>
</labels>
and then a corresponding spanish one...
<labels>
<one>Hola</one>
</labels>
..... tony
On 4/21/05, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not just in reference to language XML...but do you have something
> that generates the XML for you or do you have to type out
> the XML pages yourself?
>
> Rick
>
> ----------------------------------------
> From: "Adkins, Randy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 2:10 PM
> To: CF-Talk <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: translating websites
>
> XML works just as fine. I did not decide to do a database table
> for the translations. Might have been better but it works just
> as good.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 1:50 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: translating websites
>
> Sounds good...but why the XML files? Why not just translate the text and
put the translated phrases / sentences / paragraphs into a database and call
them out according to specified language?
>
> Rick
>
> ----------------------------------------
> From: "Adkins, Randy"
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 1:41 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: translating websites
>
> What I did was replaced all my DISPLAYED TEXT as variables And have a file
with all the variables setup for the given language.
>
> Such as:
> If the locale is Spanish, then it calls the es-es.cfm file with all The
Spanish Translations.
>
> If the locale is English, then it calls the en-us.cfm file with all The
English Translations.
>
> This way I maintain ONE website and 2 language files.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 1:29 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: translating websites
>
> Hi, Andy...
>
> I had a client ask about year ago if something like this could be done
without creating multiple sites, each in a different language. I couldn't
think of a way to do it.
>
> Seems like you've solved the problem nicely.
>
> Would you mind sharing some of your code / files / techniques...perhaps a
small sample of how you do it?
>
> Unfortunately, I know very little about using XML, although I've read some
about it, and haven't used it before.
>
> Any insight you'd be willing to give would be much appreciated!
>
> A first question would be...why would involving XML be helpful? Why not
just have someone do that translations and put them into a database?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick
>
> ----------------------------------------
> From: "Andy Mcshane"
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 1:03 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: translating websites
>
> I have done exactly this using XML. All of the English text that appears
on my site is held within tables in a SQL database. I have a Coldfusion
interface for these tables that allows access to this text for translating
into any language that I choose. From this same interface I then generate
XML files for each language using the following naming convention,
English.xml, Spanish.xml, etc. In my coldfusion page, where I want to
display the relevant text I place a call to a translate function which does
a search of the XML file that I specify and returns the appropriate text.
This means that I have only one Coldfusion page that can be seen in many
different languages. It is a little more complex than I have stated here but
this is one method to do it. My site is a multi-lingual site and I display
the required text based on the language that a user specifies. The only
drawback that I have so far found with this method is that you sometimes get
your text display screwed up depen!
ding on t he size of the translated text, but this is a very small problem
indeed, but I would suggest XML as a good solution to your requirements.
> ________________________________
>
> From: Coleman, Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thu 21/04/2005 17:32
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: translating websites
>
> I don't know if CF has any native way to do this, but the company I work
for is looking for a way to translate the website to Spanish.
> Surely you wouldn't have to do a page for page translation?
> If anyone has worked with doing this sort of stuff, let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
>
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