[PHP] Re: Newbie asks about multi-lingual website strategies
Wow! I love this group, ask and you shall receive. Thanks everyone for the
comments and suggestions.
The following snippet from Andrés Robinet would actually suit my current
project..
define('DEFAULT_LANG_ID', 'en');
function getLanguageId() {
// Allow for language id override in $_GET, $_POST and $_COOKIE
$req_lang_id = $_REQUEST['lang_id'];
// Retrieve the one stored in the session if any
$sess_lang_id = $_SESSION['lang_id'];
// $lang_id will contain the lang id retrieved from request (overrides
session),
// or from session or a default one
$lang_id = isset($req_lang_id) ? $req_lang_id : (isset($sess_lang_id) ?
$sess_lang_id : DEFAULT_LANG_ID);
// Save it for next time
$_SESSION['lang_id'] = $lang_id;
return $lang_id;
}
but the idea of getting a preferred language from the browser is also a
great strategy ( I didnt know you could do that, Im such a noob) so I
think that I will investgate that further.
The problem with IP address is that usually it is not tied to one particular
user so I will scrap that idea.
Am I correct that if two people are logged on using two different languages
that the session var will keep track of the different users (by IP I assume)
and the server wont mess up?
Anyway thanks everyone for all the great help, Im on a nearly vertical
learning curve here and its great to have this community to draw on. Im
pretty much working in a vacuum otherwise.
Jeff
[PHP] Newbie asks about multi-lingual website strategies
I'm a noob so keep the comments to a noob's level please. I am doing a website and my client wants the bulk of the text to be bilingual (French and English). The last site I did used php and mysql so I am getting comfortable with that technology. Typically I am using a single php file and my menu constantly points to the same file with different id options example index.php?id=30 and I want to use the same idea to choose a language example index.php?lang=frid=30. Pretty straight forward for many of you folks but before I start reinventing the wheel I wondered if anyone could offer any suggestions. I have a couple of approaches in mind. 1: Session vars, I have never used this but it seems straight forward. Drawbacks? 2: Cookies again not too big a deal, never used cookies either but it doesn't seem to be mystifying however the fact that the user can turn cookies off makes me not want to go this route. 3: Use the mysql database and log each ip address and record the preference and maybe the last time on the site. I am leaning in this direction because I think it is the most robust but will it be slow? First I have to get the ip then I have to check to see if it is in my data base and then get the language preference. It would be great to have a standardized function that I could use on all of my sites. I live in a bilingual country (Canada) so this could be a real selling point for my services. Any any and all comments are welcome, it will be a learning curve no matter which route I take so a little advice on the best direction pros cons would be great. And of course knowing that I will have many many thousands of people on my site (hee hee) which option will perform best once I start accumulating vistors. That's one problem I see with the mysql solution, I think it may start to be slow unless I start purging vistors who have not shown up in a while or limit the number of entries. Thanks, Jeff -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Php session settings
Hi all, I am new to PHP this is my second post to this group. I have tried using the following CMS systems on my web server (remote) Joomla CMS made simple Phpwebsite And more recently Coppermine photo album All of these apps use PHP heavily. None of these apps seem to run very well and they all require constantly refreshing the browser. When I installed CMS made simple (nice install program) it checked for MySQL database, permissions etc. everything passed the test but it flagged low memory allocation as a possible problem. The install succeeded but the program indicated that performance would be poor or crippled. My hosting service allows me to add a customized php.ini in the same folder as the app. I know nothing about php.ini so I was hoping someone could point me to which of the many settings would be best to tweak. Any help would be much appreciated Thanks, Jeff Quick recap: constantly refreshing browser, could tweak php.ini, total newbie, no hair left to pull out. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Php session settings
SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) I have attached the output from phpinfo() I cc'd the php-general group but I am not sure how an attachment will be dealt with there. Thanks, Jeff _ From: Nathan Nobbe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 6, 2007 9:08 AM To: Jeff Benetti Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Php session settings Jeff, is http://docs.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.memory-limit memory_limit the one youre looking for ? that sounds strange; im sure the default would be appropriate. i would recommend you create a script to show the current values of the php.ini settings before you start changing them. ?php echo phpinfo(); ? -nathan System FreeBSD cgi20 4.10-RELEASE-p21 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p21 #0: Mo i386 Build Date Mar 22 2007 23:48:30 Configure Command ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nf/php5 --exec-prefix=/usr/local/nf/php5 --enable-exif --enable-dbase --enable-mbstring --with-mysql=/usr/local/nf --enable-discard-path --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/nf/php5/etc --with-zlib-dir=/usr/local/nf --with-iconv=/usr/local/nf --with-libxml-dir=/usr/local/nf --with-png-dir=/usr/local/nf --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/nf --with-imagick=/usr/local/nf --with-gd --with-curl=/usr/local/nf --with-openssl=/usr/local/nf --without-xpm --without-freetype --with-libxml-dir=/usr/local/nf --with-mcrypt=/usr/local/nf Server API CGI Virtual Directory Support disabled Configuration File (php.ini) Path /usr/local/nf/php5/etc/php.ini PHP API 20041225 PHP Extension 20060613 Zend Extension 220060519 Debug Build no Thread Safety disabled Zend Memory Manager enabled IPv6 Support enabled Registered PHP Streams php, file, data, http, ftp, compress.zlib, https, ftps Registered Stream Socket Transports tcp, udp, unix, udg, ssl, sslv3, sslv2, tls Registered Stream Filters string.rot13, string.toupper, string.tolower, string.strip_tags, convert.*, consumed, convert.iconv.*, zlib.* This program makes use of the Zend Scripting Language Engine: Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies with the ionCube PHP Loader v3.1.28, Copyright (c) 2002-2007, by ionCube Ltd. PHP Credits Configuration PHP Core Directive Local Value Master Value allow_call_time_pass_reference On On allow_url_fopen On On allow_url_include Off Off always_populate_raw_post_data Off Off arg_separator.input arg_separator.output asp_tags Off Off auto_append_file no value no value auto_globals_jit On On auto_prepend_file no value no value browscap no value no value default_charset no value no value default_mimetype text/html text/html define_syslog_variables Off Off disable_classes no value no value disable_functions no value no value display_errors On On display_startup_errors Off Off doc_root no value no value docref_ext no value no value docref_root no value no value enable_dl On On error_append_string no value no value error_log no value no value error_prepend_string no value no value error_reporting no value no value expose_php On On extension_dir /usr/local/nf/php5/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613 /usr/local/nf/php5/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613 file_uploads On On highlight.bg #FF #FF highlight.comment #FF8000 #FF8000 highlight.default #BB #BB highlight.html #00 #00 highlight.keyword #007700 #007700 highlight.string #DD #DD html_errors On On ignore_repeated_errors Off Off ignore_repeated_source Off Off ignore_user_abort Off Off implicit_flush Off Off include_path .:/usr/local/nf/php5/lib/php .:/usr/local/nf/php5/lib/php log_errors Off Off log_errors_max_len 1024 1024 magic_quotes_gpc On On magic_quotes_runtime Off Off magic_quotes_sybase Off Off mail.force_extra_parameters no value no value max_execution_time 30 30 max_input_time -1 -1 open_basedir no value no value output_buffering 0 0 output_handler no value no value post_max_size 8M 8M precision 14 14 realpath_cache_size 16K 16K realpath_cache_ttl 120 120 register_argc_argv On On register_globals On On register_long_arrays On On report_memleaks On On report_zend_debug On On safe_mode Off Off safe_mode_exec_dir /usr/local/php/bin /usr/local/php/bin safe_mode_gid Off Off safe_mode_include_dir no value no value sendmail_from no value no value sendmail_path /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i serialize_precision 100 100 short_open_tag On On SMTP localhost localhost smtp_port 25 25 sql.safe_mode Off Off track_errors Off Off unserialize_callback_func no value no value upload_max_filesize 2000 2000 upload_tmp_dir /tmp/ /tmp/ user_dir no value no value variables_order EGPCS EGPCS xmlrpc_error_number 0 0 xmlrpc_errors Off Off y2k_compliance
RE: [PHP] Php session settings
Thanks, I added a one line file called php.ini with the following line memory_limit = 16M so far CMS made simple seems to run better (faster, no need for page refresh) Yes I will check out drupal Jeff _ From: Tom Friedhof [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 6, 2007 11:18 AM To: Jeff Benetti Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Php session settings I almost always up the memory_limit in the php.ini. Set the memory limit to 16M, or 32M (the default is 8M). You want a higher memory_limit if you're working with big file uploads or creating images with php or anything else that takes a lot of memory. Also, if you're still researching which CMS to use, don't forget to check out Drupal at http://drupal.org. You can learn a lot about PHP by diving into a well written project. The Drupal code is very clean and organized. Tom Friedhof On 10/6/07, Jeff Benetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) I have attached the output from phpinfo() I cc'd the php-general group but I am not sure how an attachment will be dealt with there. Thanks, Jeff _ From: Nathan Nobbe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 6, 2007 9:08 AM To: Jeff Benetti Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Php session settings Jeff, is http://docs.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.memory-limit memory_limit the one youre looking for ? that sounds strange; im sure the default would be appropriate. i would recommend you create a script to show the current values of the php.ini settings before you start changing them. ?php echo phpinfo(); ? -nathan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Using a variable for include statement
Sorry if this is a noob question, I have used PERL, TCL and VB but I am just
getting into PHP. If there is a better place to ask noobie questions then
let me know.
I want to use the include statement but I want to pass the name of the file
rather than hard code it. It seems that PHP needs the file to be in its
defined PATH in order to do this (or am I wrong?).
My code works OK if I use hard coding
Example (works)
include ('somefile.php')
Example (doesn't work)
$TheFile = somefile.php
include ($TheFile)
Am I trying to do something that is impossible?
If it is a path problem then how do I get around this, I can control my
local server config but I only have a local server for development.
Thanks,
Jeff
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