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08-17-2007, 06:37 PM

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
This might be a stupid question but I found no answer to it.

In the controller I use:
$this->lang->line('language_key');

but I have no use fo the language strings in the controller, i need them in the view.

But what do I use in the view?! Do I have to pass all the language keys in an array to the view or is there something more automatic?

08-17-2007, 07:10 PM

[eluser]BravoAlpha[/eluser]
[quote author="naicuoctavian" date="1187415451"]In the controller I use:
$this->lang->line('language_key');[/quote]
You can use that in the view too.

08-18-2007, 03:46 AM

[eluser]esra[/eluser]
You can also use Bravo's approach to assign language strings to variables and reuse the variables directly or indirectly as necessary in your controllers and views.

Quote: $page = $this->lang->line('dashboard_title');
$this->view->set('title', $page);

In your view, you could use:

Quote: <title><?=$title ?></title>

The second line of the above uses Coolfactor's View library, but many of the other View libraries and template solutions have a similar method for setting variables. The above solution is good if you need to reuse the same variable multiple times within the same controller:

You can also do this:

Quote: $this->view->set('title', $this->lang->line('dashboard_title');

A more complete example:

Code:
&lt;?php  if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

require(APPPATH.'libraries/application'.EXT);

class Dashboard extends Application {

    public function __construct()

    {

        parent::Application();    

        $this->lang->load('dashboard', 'en_us');    

    }

    public function index()

    {

        $component = $this->lang->line('dashboard_component');

        $page = $this->lang->line('dashboard_title');

        $this->view->set('title', $page);

        $this->view->set('component', $component);

        $this->view->part('tree', 'tree');

        $this->view->part('navigation', 'navigation');

        $this->view->part('tabpanel', 'tabpanel');

        $this->view->part('content', $component);

        $this->view->part('properties', 'properties');

        $this->view->part('output', 'output');

        $this->view->load('complex');

    }

}

?&gt;

The master view below is composed of multiple view fragments and the $component variable is used multiple times in the controller and view:

Code:
&lt;html&gt;

&lt;head&gt;

  &lt;title&gt;&lt;?=$title ?&gt;&lt;/title&gt;

    &lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="&lt;?=js_url();?&gt;ext/resources/css/ext-all.css" /&gt;

    &lt;!-- GC --&gt; &lt;!-- LIBS --&gt;     

    &lt; script type="text/javascript" src="&lt;?=js_url();?&gt;ext/adapter/yui/yui-utilities.js"&gt;     

    &lt; script type="text/javascript" src="&lt;?=js_url();?&gt;ext/adapter/yui/ext-yui-adapter.js"&gt;     

    &lt; script type="text/javascript" src="&lt;?=js_url();?&gt;ext/ext-all.js"&gt;

    &lt;!-- ENDLIBS --&gt;

    &lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="&lt;?=templates_url();?&gt;complex/css/template.css" /&gt;

&lt;/head&gt;

&lt;body&gt;

<div id ="container">

    &lt;?=$tree ?&gt;

    &lt;?=$navigation ?&gt;

    &lt;?=$tabpanel ?&gt;

    &lt;?=$content ?&gt;

    &lt;?=$properties ?&gt;

    &lt;?=$output ?&gt;

</div>

 &lt;/body&gt;

&lt;/html&gt;

08-18-2007, 10:14 AM

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Thks for the reply BravoAlpha.
esra the approach you are describing does not seem to appropriate for when one has many language strings, but thks. I personally use Smarty.