Multilingual support using gettext with codeigniter, best practice?
I just make a library which can auto translate all text between {t} and {/t} in the view, I posted here in case some one want to use it instead calling the gettext function in the view:
The view code might be:
<html><head><title>{blog_title}</title></head><body><h3>{blog_heading}</h3>{blog_entries}<h5>{t}Title is{/t} {title}</h5><p>{t 1="<b>" 2="</b>"}Click here %1to see%2 me{/t}{body}</p><p>{t 1="{id}" 2="author"}The id is: %1 wrote by %2{/t}</p><p>{t 1="<a href=\"link here\">" 2="</a>"}Please lick on me%2{/t}</p>{/blog_entries}</body></html>
I check for the user's language hooking the detection at "post_controller_constructor", and I set it somewhere globally available (e.g. changing at runtime the language in the config file). A controller has just to use the value.
The language is detected with the following check in fallback
- it has been set via a GET parameter (e.g. ?lang=en) ?
- it was set in a cookie ?
- what is the browser suggested language ?
- use the default language configured
If a language is not supported, however, use the default.Set or refresh the cookie with the new data.
So you usually do not need to use the GET parameter, evenctuallly just one time if the user clicks somewhere to change language