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Multi language application - El Forum - 01-11-2011
[eluser]Stoppy[/eluser]
Hi!
I have to develop a multi language application. What is the best way to do it in codeigniter?
Consider I am going to use datamapper and that I would like just to do it changing language files according by the url the user is visiting.
example:
www.mysite.ext/mycontroller/
www.mysite.ext/mycontroller/mymethod/url_rewriter.html
www.mysite.ext/es/mycontroller/
www.mysite.ext/es/mycontroller/mymethod/url_rewriter.html
www.mysite.ext/fr/mycontroller/
www.mysite.ext/fr/mycontroller/mymethod/url_rewriter.html
and so on....
Thank You!
Multi language application - El Forum - 01-11-2011
[eluser]smilie[/eluser]
Hi,
I am doing it through CI session; I store user defined language in session and than use that to get appropriate text.
Cheers,
Smilie
Multi language application - El Forum - 01-11-2011
[eluser]Stoppy[/eluser]
Hi,
ok it could be an idea but I would like that search engines will be able to find all url of all languages.
So i would like to have a "static" structure.
Thanks
[quote author="smilie" date="1294774886"]Hi,
I am doing it through CI session; I store user defined language in session and than use that to get appropriate text.
Cheers,
Smilie[/quote]
Multi language application - El Forum - 01-11-2011
[eluser]peredurabefrog[/eluser]
[quote author="smilie" date="1294774886"]Hi,
I am doing it through CI session; I store user defined language in session and than use that to get appropriate text.
Cheers,
Smilie[/quote]
Interesting. How do you deal with the situation where the user wants to change language within a single session? Presumably they must do that by clicking on a link accessible from all pages that passes the language in via the query string. So do you check the $_GET array (or a variable passed into the controller function) in every controller function and compare it with the session language, changing the session language variable if they're different? Or do you have a better way?
This is very interesting to me because I'm porting an existing bilingual site to CI (http://www.wales-legislation.org.uk/index.php - the version you see at this URL is a bit of a mongrel because I've had to do some mending of the existing site as a first priority. In fact there are still some more changes to the existing site to put live before I really get started on the CI project. So don't be too critical :red: ). It is very important to our users that they can easily change between the two languages.
Cheers
Peredur
Multi language application - El Forum - 01-11-2011
[eluser]Cristian Gilè[/eluser]
Here
Cristian Gilè
Multi language application - El Forum - 01-12-2011
[eluser]peredurabefrog[/eluser]
[quote author="Cristian Gilè" date="1294805187"]Here
Cristian Gilè[/quote]
Hi Cristian,
That's very interesting. Thanks. I have one question if you don't mind.
These libraries seem oriented towards single line translations, for things like error messages. For my project I need to have translations of whole pages. For example:
http://www.wales-legislation.org.uk/intro.php?lang=en
Is the use of a library such as the one you refer to the best solution for such a situation? For instance, would I need to provide a separate language string for every list item in every list? Or can the language strings include HTML, and would including HTML in language strings be a safe thing to do? Or have I misunderstood something.
Apologies if these questions are naive. I couldn't find any discussion of such matters anywhere else.
Cheers
Peredur