Re: [SMARTY] smarty and GNU gettext

You really don't want to use it, since the performance gains are negligible
from a custon made library getting the stuff from a DB -I've done and made
benchmarks and the results are similar with an edge going to custon made
libraries when you're using high ammounts of translated terms- .

For legibility reasons I implemented my system as block plugin:
{translate}text{/translate} and added some localization functions to deal
with numeric format etc..

On 5/30/06, Marcus Bointon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 30 May 2006, at 13:11, D_C wrote:
>
> > basically gettext is a php function, so if this is used in the middle
> > of a smarty template, it will make templates really ugly. I think!
> > Unless there is a clean way to inline php funcs inside smarty...
>
> You really don't want to do that...
>
> > also, since a php funciton is being called in the middle of a
> > template, i imagine this stops smarty from being able to pre-compie/
> > cache the template itself?
> >
> > So, any suggested approaches?
>
> Yup. Wrap it up in a Smarty plugin. Many smarty plugins are no more
> than this, so try looking at some. You might need a pair of plugins -
> an initializer (e.g. to select and load an appropriate language file)
> and a modifier to display a text item. The popup plugins work this way.
>
> > Can a modifier function work directly on a string? eg if i created a
> > localize() modifier that called gettext, then:
> >
> > had a template like this:
> >
> > { "message list" | localize }
>
> Yes, you can use this syntax. Try for example {"hello world"|
> escape:"url"} and it will render to 'hello%20world'.
>
> There are several Smarty translation mechanisms around (including
> some that use gettext) - try looking at the wiki: http://
> smarty.incutio.com/
>
> Marcus
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