If you were using MooTools, you could also just use the Locale library. http://mootools.net/docs/more/Locale/Locale
Really wish people would use Moo more over jQuery. jQuery is a designs framework. On Nov 10, 1:40 am, AD7six <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 9, 7:32 pm, Miles J <[email protected]> wrote: > > > No there isn't really. This is also a problem for any language, and > > unless you have back-end parsed JS files it's not possible. The only > > solution is so place a JS literal object in your page source > > containing the message strings: > > > <script> > > var Msg = { > > username: '<?php echo __('username'); ?>', > > someKey: '<?php echo __('moreKeys'); ?>'}; > > > </script> > > > And then reference it in your JS: > > > alert(Msg.username); > > OR, the other only solution is, to only don't embed things in your > page source. And instead: > > 1) use __() in your js files > 2) load a js file with that function defined, like > this:https://github.com/AD7six/mi_js/blob/master/i18n.js > 3) Define a js object (i18n in the above js file) with your message > definitions in it any way you can/like. > > That's basically it, and you'll see the same not-only technique used > with, for example, the jquery date picker - see how it works if you > don't understand the above explanation. > > The simplest cakephp way to generate those i18n js objects is similar > to what Miles suggested: create a controller and route /js/i18n.xx.js > to it. and define a view which returns valid js like this: > > i18n = { > 'foo' => '<?php __d('javascript', 'foo'); ?>', > .. > > }; > > Then you don't need to do anything special to be able to generate your > po files and use translations in your js files. You only need to > request /js/i18n.xx.js to change the language of things that come out > of your js files. If you want to parse out the __() calls from your js > files - that's not hard either, some reference (but if you don't > understand - just do the above): > > https://github.com/AD7six/mi_development/blob/master/vendors/shells/t...https://github.com/AD7six/mi_js/blob/master/i18n.lang.js > > AD -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
