the best way to make codeigniter website multi-lan

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!!

Answer 1

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->lang->load('polish_lang', 'polish');
• then fetch the line like $this->lang->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.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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];  
}

Answer 4

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->session->set_userdata('language', ENGLISH);

Then you can grab it anytime like this:

$language = $this->session->userdata('language');

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

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

<?php /*

 $lang = array (
  'english' => 'English',

  'arabic' => 'Arabic',  // i add this here

  'spanish' => 'Español'

Now save and run the application. It's worked fine.