I'll be facing this same issue very soon. I've had a look at the I18N
table structure and I'm also unsure how to proceed (or that it even
suits my needs).
One trick I was thinking about is something I've already done fr years
building English/French sites. Where I have a lookup table with values
for select lists, I have fields ID, name_en, and name_fr. With Cake,
one can set the display field before doing a find('list'). Here's an
example from my MembersController, where I want populate a select list
with region names:
$this->Member->Region->displayField = "name_${lang}";
$this->set('regions', $this->Member->Region->find('list'));
Then $regions can be passed in the view to create your select list and
will contain only the english region names. ($lang is gotten from the
session but has a default to avoid problems).
Now, how to deal with other content i haven't figured out yet.
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Werschinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The data is dynamic, it is stored in the DB.
>
> Loosely speaking, I have data like
>
> in English:
> id: 1
> desc: male
> id: 2
> desc: female
>
> in German
> id: 1
> desc: männlich
> id: 2
> desc: weiblich
>
> When somebody choose a gender (or a country or some other data) the ID
> will be stored as a foreign key.
>
> Now...I could, of course, store the English string in the DB and pull
> them via __() when German or some other language is required. However,
> in that case, I'd have to recreate a data array as one string at a
> time is returned by __(). Doesn't seem like an elegant solution to me.
>
> I'm just curious if this problem is supposed to be solved via the i18n
> table as proposed in Cake 1.2. At this point, I just don't know how to
> use the proposed table structure as found in app/config/sql/i18n.sql.
>
> In other posts, I have read that other tables in the form model_i18n
> need to be generated. I just have not found a step by step example of
> how to use i18n.
>
> Does anybody know?
>
> Thx again.
>
>
> >
>
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