and i forgot, this allows you to access the property "name" of the
object anywhere seemlessly, in the template, in the code, etc. this is
pretty neat imho :-)
wolfram
On 7/25/07, Wolfram Kriesing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> after some investigation and help from the list i took this approach
> and have to say it works great:
>
>
> from django.utils import translation
>
> @property
> def name(self):
> if translation.get_language()=="en":
> return self.name_en
> else:
> return self.name_de
>
> good luck
>
> wolfram
>
> On 7/25/07, Arnold Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I am implementing a multi-lingual product catalog website with Django.
> > It is in English (default), Trad. Chinese and Simp. Chinese. I want to
> > let user to choose the language they want, and the system display the
> > corresponding product name (in the selected language).
> >
> > The product class is something like
> >
> > # ======= start class =============
> > class Product(models.Model)
> > name_en = mode.CharField()
> > name_tw = mode.CharField()
> > name_cn = mode.CharField()
> >
> > def get_name(self, lang="en"):
> > return eval("self.name_" + lang)
> >
> > # ======= end class =============
> >
> > The language preference that user has chosen will be saved in
> > request.session['django_language']
> >
> > Of cos, i don't know how to use the get_name() function that i've
> > implemented, because i can't pass the lang from view or template. So,
> > the question is how do i get the request.session['django_language']
> > variable in models ? or is there any other way to achieve the desired
> > result?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Arnold
> >
> >
> > > >
> >
>
>
> --
> cu
>
> Wolfram
>
--
cu
Wolfram
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