TranslationHelper
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This uses the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE to determine the current users most accepted language. It takes the the first one of all accepted, then looks up the available translations and delivers. If all fails, or no good translation was found, it returns the default string.
Usage
$trans->text(array('default'=>'Title',
'de_de'=>'Titel',
'fr_fr'=>'Titre',
'it_it'=>'Titolo')
);
Code
<?php
/**
* i18n Translation Helper
*
* Based on code from Hans Deragon
* and his i18n Smarty Function
*
* Usage:
* $trans->text(array('default'=>'Title',
* 'de_de'=>'Titel', 'fr_fr'=>'Titre',
* 'it_it'=>'Titolo'));
*
* @version 0.1
* @author Kjell Bublitz <m3nt0r.de@gmail.com>
* @copyright Copyright 2006, Kjell Bublitz
* @license http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php The MIT License
* @link http://www.m3nt0r.de/ Authors Homepage
* @created 13.10.2006
* @updated 13.10.2006
*/
class TransHelper extends Helper
{
var $lang = null;
var $translations = null;
function text($transArray)
{
$this->translations = $transArray;
$this->_findLanguage($lang);
if (!empty($this->lang))
{
$closestMatch = false;
list($usr_lang, $usr_country) = split('_', $this->lang);
foreach (array_keys($this->translations) as $availableTrans)
{
if ($availableTrans != 'default')
{
list($key_lang, $key_country) = split('_', $availableTrans);
if ($key_lang == $usr_lang)
{
if ($key_country == $usr_country)
{
return $this->translations[$availableTrans];
}
else
{
$closestMatch = $this->translations[$availableTrans];
}
}
}
}
// if user is en_en, but we only have en_us,
// then at least return 'en'.
if ($closestMatch)
{
return $closestMatch;
}
else // if not even close
{
return $this->_returnDefault();
}
}
else
{
return $this->_returnDefault();
}
}
function _findLanguage()
{
if (!empty($_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"]))
{
$langarray = explode(",", $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"]);
foreach ($langarray as $langkey)
{
$templang = explode(';', $langkey);
if(strstr($templang[0], '-')) {
$lang[] = str_replace('-','_',$templang[0]);
}
}
$this->lang = $lang[0];
}
}
function _returnDefault()
{
if(empty($this->translations['default']))
{
return "TranslationError: No default set.";
}
else
{
return $this->translations['default'];
}
}
}
?>
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