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Old June 4th, 2007, 09:45 AM
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Hi there,

I just wanted to have input on your take considering texts in a PHP application (or any web application for that matter).

I have a basic OO PHP application, where I have texts in:
- The php files that are presented.
- The methods contain texts
- Standard data originating from the database (such as country names, type information).

Now What I would like to do is to have all standard texts Data Driven. Although I am currently planning a system, your take on this would be quite welcome.

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your use of "text" is unfamiliar to me - please clarify.
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All text that is presented to the user. Any linguistic information, such as sentences, words etc.

I am not sure that I can be more percise than this.
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Ahh - strings. I personally do not like output scattered all through my code. to me it sloppier and doesn't lend the code to reuse so I use templates to help separate my business logic from my display logic.

There are a number of templating systems out there - smarty and savant for example - but I tend to just use PHP itself as my templating engine. Yes it requires me to be much more disciplined in my coding to keep things clean - but I hate having to code in one lang and then use another for the template.
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I'll take a look at these things, but its not the presentation that is my problem, its the storage.

I want to put all texts in the database.

For example one method is to store a text_id (corresponding to a line in a dedicated database table ) everywhere where texts are to be presented. And every time you get to a page you make a select on the texts table in order to retrieve the texts you want to present.

Now I am looking for a more structured approach to text storage, and retrieval, than just storing text snippet identities in the code.

But thanks just the same
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Is this for I18n purposes? have you looked at gettext?
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Is this for I18n purposes? have you looked at gettext?


I18n? Looked at it, and it sounds promising. Yes my application is intended to work independent of the location. I'll see how they propose storing the texts.
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I18n == "Internationalization"

"I" - then 18 letters then an "n"
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