the best way to make codeigniter website multi-language calling from lang arrays depends on lang session

Question

I m researching hours and hours  but I could not find any clear  efficient way to make it     I have a codeigniter base website in English and I have to add a Polish language now  What is the best way to make my site in 2 language depending visitor selection   is there any way to create array files for each language and call them in view files depends on Session from lang selection  I don t wanna use database    Appreciate helps  I m running out of deadline    thanks

User · Answer

In the controller add following lines when you make the cunstructor

i.e, after

parent::Controller();

add below lines

    $this->load->helper('lang_translate');
    $this->lang->load('nl_site', 'nl'); // ('filename', 'directory')

create helper file lang_translate_helper.php with following function and put it in directory system\application\helpers

function label($label, $obj)
{
    $return = $obj->lang->line($label);
    if($return)
        echo $return;
    else
        echo $label;
}

for each of the language, create a directory with language abbrevation like en, nl, fr, etc., under system\application\languages

create language file in above (respective) directory which will contain $lang array holding pairs label=>language_value as given below

nl_site_lang.php

$lang['welcome'] = 'Welkom';
$lang['hello word'] = 'worde Witaj';

en_site_lang.php

$lang['welcome'] = 'Welcome';
$lang['hello word'] = 'Hello Word';

you can store multiple files for same language with differently as per the requirement e.g, if you want separate language file for managing backend (administrator section) you can use it in controller as $this->lang->load('nl_admin', 'nl');

nl_admin_lang.php

$lang['welcome'] = 'Welkom';
$lang['hello word'] = 'worde Witaj';

and finally to print the label in desired language, access labels as below in view

label('welcome', $this);

OR

label('hello word', $this);

note the space in hello & word you can use it like this way as well :)

whene there is no lable defined in the language file, it will simply print it what you passed to the function label.

User · Answer

I am using such code in config php    lang    ru      this language will be used if there is no any lang information from useragent  for example  from command line  wget  etc     if   empty   SERVER  HTTP ACCEPT LANGUAGE      lang   substr   SERVER  HTTP ACCEPT LANGUAGE   0 2    tmp value     COOKIE  language    if   empty  tmp value    lang    tmp value  switch   lang        case  ru            config  language      russian           setlocale LC ALL  ru RU UTF-8             break          case  uk            config  language      ukrainian           setlocale LC ALL  uk UA UTF-8                     break          case  foo            config  language      foo           setlocale LC ALL  foo FOO UTF-8                     break          default           config  language      english           setlocale LC ALL  en US UTF-8             break           and then i m using usualy internal mechanizm of CI  o  almost forget  in views i using buttons  which seting cookie  language  with language  prefered by user   So  first this code try to detect  preffered language  setted in user s useragent  browser   Then code try to read cookie  language   And finaly - switch sets language for CI-application

User · Answer

I ve used Wiredesignz s MY Language class with great success    I ve just published it on github  as I can t seem to find a trace of it anywhere    https   github com meigwilym CI Language  My only changes are to rename the class to CI Lang  in accordance with the new v2 changes

User · Answer

Follow this https   github com EllisLab CodeIgniter wiki CodeIgniter-2 1-internationalization-i18n  its simple and clear  also check out the document   http   ellislab com codeigniter user-guide libraries language html  its way simpler than

User · Answer

you can make a function like this  function translateTo  language   word         define  defaultLang   english         if  isset  lang  language   word      FALSE          return  lang  language   word        else         return  lang defaultLang   word

User · Answer

For easier use CI have updated this so you can just use    this- gt load- gt helper  language      and to translate text  lang  language line      and if you want to warp it inside label then use optional parameter  lang  language line    element id      This will output     becomes  lt label for  form item id  gt language key lt  label gt    For good reading  http   ellislab com codeigniter user-guide helpers language helper html

User · Answer

Also to add the language to the session  I would define some constants for each language  then make sure you have the session library autoloaded in config autoload php  or you load it whenever you need it  Add the users desired language to the session    this- gt session- gt set userdata  language   ENGLISH     Then you can grab it anytime like this    language    this- gt session- gt userdata  language

User · Answer

When managing the actual files  things can get out of sync pretty easily unless you re really vigilant  So we ve launched a  beta  free service called String which allows you to keep track of your language files easily  and collaborate with translators    You can either import existing language files  in PHP array  PHP Define  ini  po or  strings formats  or create your own sections from scratch and add content directly through the system   String is totally free so please check it out and tell us what you think   It s actually built on Codeigniter too  Check out the beta at http   mygengo com string

User · Answer

I second Randell s answer   However  one could always integrate a GeoIP such as http   www maxmind com app php or http   www ipinfodb com   Then you can save the results with the codeigniter session class    If you want to use the ipinfodb com api You can add the ip2locationlite class php file to your codeigniter application library folder and then create a model function to do whatever geoip logic you need for your application  such as   function geolocate          ipinfodb   new ipinfodb       ipinfodb- gt setKey  API KEY           Get errors and locations      locations    ipinfodb- gt getGeoLocation  this- gt input- gt ip address          errors    ipinfodb- gt getError          Set geolocation cookie    if empty  errors               foreach   locations as  field   gt   val               if  field      CountryCode                                  place    val                       endforeach          return  place

User · Answer

Friend  don t worry  if you have any application installed built in codeigniter and you wanna add some language pack just follow these steps   1  Add language files in folder application language arabic  i add arabic lang in sma2 built in ci   2  Go to the file named setting php in application modules settings views setting php  Here you find the array   lt  php       lang   array      english    gt   English       arabic    gt   Arabic       i add this here     spanish    gt   Espa  ol    Now save and run the application  It s worked fine

User · Answer

Have you seen CodeIgniter s Language library      The Language Class provides functions    to retrieve language files and lines    of text for purposes of internationalization       In your CodeIgniter system folder you ll    find one called language containing sets    of language files  You can create your    own language files as needed in order    to display error and other messages in    other languages       Language files are typically stored in    your system language directory  Alternately    you can create a folder called language    inside your application folder and store    them there  CodeIgniter will look first    in your application language directory     If the directory does not exist or the    specified language is not located there    CI will instead look in your global    system language folder    In your case      you need to create a polish lang php and english lang php inside application language polish then create your keys inside that file  e g   lang  hello      Witaj   then load it in your controller like  this- gt lang- gt load  polish lang    polish    then fetch the line like  this- gt lang- gt line  hello    Just store the return value of this function in a variable so you can use it in your view    Repeat the steps for the english language and all other languages you need

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