hi folks!! Thinking in translate aiki and all we have already wrote and discuss about it, i make a little experiment implementing a aiki dictionary. Instead of thinking in implementation, i work on interface and rules that aiki translation system must comply:
rules:
- Aiki (core,libs, apps) is developed in English.
- but a aiki site can developed in german, and can be translate to french.
- aiki site can be translate to any language.
- apps can add their own dictionaries.
- the translate function must be very very short
definitions:
- a dictionary is a object that have 2 static attributes: translate From,
translate To, and one method to translate terms. How is implemented the
dictionary
is irrelevant. We can use (and mixed): gettext files, database or arrays.
- aiki dictionary is a set of dictonaries (called domains).
With this in mind i develop a little library. The core is about 70 lines
longer. The shortcut functions is __ (rule 1, must be used in core
development) and t (rule 2, use it in widget).
,lines 101-120 is a dictionary implemented using array, and the rest a rude
test (sorry, Bryle.. phpunit is better).
In aiki we must:
$Aiki object must load the class and load the 'core' dictionary and 'widget'
dictionary.
Using:
- in core we must use function __ for translating terms. example: __("File
not found")
- in dynamic apps with their own translations, we must use __(TERM, DOMAIN)
in each call or $aikidicionary->domain(DOMAIN) and then we can use __
without second argument (note, this don't affect the next __() calls).
Example: __("No keyword provided", "GoogleExtension")
- in widget we must define a markup (t("translate this")) or
<%t(translate)%> or [t[translate]], that internally calls t function.
Widgets must should not set translateTo, translateFrom or load dictionary.
That is work for aiki bootstrap.
unresolved/doubts:
- use config to set translation language?
- how manage for example en, en_EN, en_US?
- aiki must give the translateTo language as a parameter to dictionaries.
So, they can load only required languages.
Roger
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