lots of variables and speed?

[Shenron]

Hello,

I'm trying to translate my website in some languages, therefore I
include a file which contains all words. This is something like that:

$hello_english= "Hello"; in lang_en.php
$hello_francais ="Salut"; in lang_fr.php
$hello_deutch=" Heil"; in lang_de.php
....

So my file contains more 1000 lines with a new variable per line. Do
you know another method? I'm afraid of losing speed with this method.

What's your opinion?

Best Regards,

[Michael Fesser]

Re: lots of variables and speed?

.oO(Shenron)
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>I'm trying to translate my website in some languages, therefore I
>include a file which contains all words. This is something like that:
>
>$hello_english ="Hello"; in lang_en.php
>$hello_francai s="Salut"; in lang_fr.php
>$hello_deutch= "Heil"; in lang_de.php
>...
>
>So my file contains more 1000 lines with a new variable per line. Do
>you know another method?[/color]

I would probably use gettext.

http://www.php.net/gettext

Micha

[neur0maniak]

Re: lots of variables and speed?

Shenron wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to translate my website in some languages, therefore I
> include a file which contains all words. This is something like that:
>
> $hello_english= "Hello"; in lang_en.php
> $hello_francais ="Salut"; in lang_fr.php
> $hello_deutch=" Heil"; in lang_de.php
> ....
>
> So my file contains more 1000 lines with a new variable per line. Do
> you know another method? I'm afraid of losing speed with this method.
>
> What's your opinion?
>
> Best Regards,[/color]

My methods of translation have involved a database, so I can use the
query to choose language and refine the search to a specific page.

From the query I'd build an array..

Table could look something like this (though I'd extend it to use
another table for listed languages, and pages, and link them)

|----------|------|------------|-----------------|
| language | page | tag | text |
|----------|------|------------|-----------------|
| english | home | hello | Hello |
| french | home | hello | Salut |
| dutch | home | hello | Heil |
|----------|------|------------|-----------------|

Then in the code use something like this:

$dbO = mysql_query("SE LECT * FROM language_text WHERE language =
'english' AND page = 'home'");

$lang = Array();
while ($dbR = mysql_fetch_arr ay($dbO)) {
$lang[$dbR['tag']] = $dbR['text'];
}

then when using the translated text, just access it by using:
$lang['hello']

[Chung Leong]

Re: lots of variables and speed?

"Shenron" <cyril@aceboard .net> wrote in message
news:dce67b33.0 407211057.13349 f91@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to translate my website in some languages, therefore I
> include a file which contains all words. This is something like that:
>
> $hello_english= "Hello"; in lang_en.php
> $hello_francais ="Salut"; in lang_fr.php
> $hello_deutch=" Heil"; in lang_de.php
> ...
>
> So my file contains more 1000 lines with a new variable per line. Do
> you know another method? I'm afraid of losing speed with this method.
>
> What's your opinion?
>
> Best Regards,[/color]

As Michael suggested, Gettext is the more robust approach.

Using variables isn't too bad. I wouldn't worry about speed all that much.
PHP can comfortably parse files with thousands of lines. It probably makes
more sense to use the same variable name across languages, then include the
lang_xx.php of the language requested by the user.

[steve]

Re: Re: lots of variables and speed?

"Chung Leong" wrote:[color=blue]
> "Shenron" <cyril@aceboard .net> wrote in message
> news:dce67b33.0 407211057.13349 f91@posting.goo gle.com...[color=green]
> > Hello,
> >
> > I’m trying to translate my website in some languages,[/color]
> therefore I[color=green]
> > include a file which contains all words. This is something like[/color]
> that:[color=green]
> >
> > $hello_english= "Hello"; in lang_en.php
> > $hello_francais ="Salut"; in lang_fr.php
> > $hello_deutch=" Heil"; in lang_de.php
> > ...
> >
> > So my file contains more 1000 lines with a new variable per line.[/color]
> Do[color=green]
> > you know another method? I’m afraid of losing speed with[/color]
> this method.[color=green]
> >
> > What’s your opinion?
> >
> > Best Regards,[/color]
>
> As Michael suggested, Gettext is the more robust approach.
>
> Using variables isn’t too bad. I wouldn’t worry about
> speed all that much.
> PHP can comfortably parse files with thousands of lines. It[/color]
probably[color=blue]
> makes
> more sense to use the same variable name across languages, then
> include the
> lang_xx.php of the language requested by the user.[/color]

A lot of scripts use the conditional include of different language
files. Take a look at phpbb which supports quite a few languages.
You may, in fact, want to borrow their language files-- I am sure, a
lot of what you want to do is already covered there.

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