[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Patton) wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Can someone point me to a definitive source for the > answers to the following two questions: > > 1) > In an environment with Redhat Linux 2.4.21-27.0.1, > Apache 1.3.31, PHP 4.3.10, and GNU gettext 0.14.1, > will using PHP's gettext support along with the > GNU gettext utilities work properly? > For example, I've seen references to the translated > strings in .mo files not always being what appears > on webpages, presumably due to the caching built > into GNU gettext. > > 2) > In December 2003, in the php.i18n newsgroup, in a posting titled > "GNU gettext support for PHP programs",Bruno Haible said: > - The just-released GNU gettext 0.13 has improved support > for PHP programs > - Unfortunately, GNU gettext is not yet ready for being used > in a multithreaded environment where each thread may need > to use a different locale/language. > > The README file in the hello-php directory for GNU gettext > 0.14.1 says: > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > The gettext/PHP binding has a limitation: While it works fine for > standalone PHP programs, it cannot be used inside a web server, to > translate parts of web pages into the preferred encoding of user > that makes a HTTP connection. The reason is that a web server > usually is multithreaded, and the gettext() API relies on the > process' global locale. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Do the above statements mean that using GNU gettext with PHP > and Apapche 2.0 will not work? Does anyone know if there are > plans to change GNU gettext to support multiple threads? I've added a note to the PHP website page for gettext: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.gettext.php =============================================================== Make sure you check your webserver configuration before deciding to use gettext, because if you are running in a multi-threaded environment you should not use gettext, as it is not thread-safe. A future version of gettext(possibly 0.15) may be thread-safe. Any gettext dependencies, such as glibc would also need to be thread-safe. Apache 1.3 on Unix generally is non-threaded, but on Windows it is multithreaded. Apache 2.0 has support for MPMs(Multi-Processing Modules), some of which support multiple threads: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mpm.html =============================================================== -- Dave Patton Canadian Coordinator, Degree Confluence Project http://www.confluence.org/ My website: http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/ -- PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
