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Maciek
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 8:14 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] software localization with PHP
>
>
> Kevin,
>
> Thanks for the reply. This will not solve my problem. The
> problem is, for some
> languages the sentence structure may be different. For example,
> the sentence
> may need to be,
> $greeting = "$first_name, welcome!"
> as opposed to,
> $greeting = "Welcome, $first_name!"
>
> Or, it can come in a different form, like,
> $greeting = "Good morning, $first_name."
>
> These specificity need to be in the language file, not the scripts.
>
> Tao
>
>
> Leavell Digital Design wrote:
>
> > You can use constants:
> >
> > in your language file
> > define("HELLO", OLA);
> >
> > in your script which includes the language file you can write
> > $greeting = HELLO . " $first_name";
> >
> > print $greeting;
> >
> > Kevin Leavell
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> > ---> -----Original Message-----
> > ---> From: Tao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > ---> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 9:50 PM
> > ---> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ---> Subject: [PHP] software localization with PHP
> > --->
> > --->
> > ---> Hi all,
> > --->
> > ---> I have a question about localizing PHP scripts. I understand
> > ---> that for basic
> > ---> localization one can have a "strings" file for each language,
> > ---> which contains
> > ---> string variables and values such as:
> > ---> <?php
> > ---> $title = "Welcome!";
> > ---> $error = "An error occurred.";
> > ---> ?>
> > --->
> > ---> Then, in the scripts just "include" the language file at the
> > ---> beginning and
> > ---> simply call the strings by their variable names. The issue I
> > ---> have is when
> > ---> embedding variables within these strings. Suppose I need to
> > ---> call the user
> > ---> by his/her first name, in the strings file I would have a
> variable like
> > ---> this:
> > ---> $greeting = "Welcome! $first_name";
> > --->
> > ---> The problem is, the strings file is loaded at the beginning of
> > ---> the script
> > ---> before $first_name was set, so the $greeting string will
> come out as
> > ---> "Welcome! ", with $first_name being an empty string. Even if
> > ---> I loaded the
> > ---> strings file after the $first_name variable is set, the
> problem still
> > ---> remains - when $first_name variable is changed, the strings
> > ---> file has to be
> > ---> reloaded.
> > --->
> > ---> What is the best way of dealing with this problem? Is there a
> > ---> place to find
> > ---> "best practices" on localizing PHP software?
> > --->
> > ---> Tao
> > --->
> > --->
> > --->
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