I want to have translations for a number of languages coming from the default Language files (as provided by CI). I'd also like to do some sorting on these values (e.g. to insert them in a dropdown list, I want them to be alphabetically sorted).
I have a project running in CodeIgniter and am in the process of moving all hardcoded text to the language files. This also includes some database tables.
For example, I have the following table:
+-------------+---------------------+--------------------+---------------+
| language_id | language_nl | language_en | language_code |
+-------------+---------------------+--------------------+---------------+
| 1 | Afrikaans | Afrikaans | AF |
| 2 | Albanese | Albanian | SQ |
| 3 | Arabisch | Arabic | AR |
| 4 | Armeens | Armenian | HY |
| 5 | baskisch | Basque | EU |
| 6 | Bengalees | Bengali | BN |
| | | | |
+-------------+---------------------+--------------------+---------------+
Now I would like to transfer this table to my language file.
I will first start by deleting the language_nl and language_en columns.
A new column will have to be introduced as well, language_key.
So it should look like this:
+-------------+--------------+---------------+
| language_id | language_key | language_code |
+-------------+--------------+---------------+
| 1 | language_af | AF |
| 2 | language_sq | SQ |
| 3 | language_ar | AR |
| 4 | language_hy | HY |
| 5 | language_eu | EU |
| 6 | language_bn | BN |
+-------------+--------------+---------------+
Then in my language file I will add the following lines:
$lang["language_af"] = "African";
$lang["language_sq"] = "Albanian";
$lang["language_ar"] = "Arabic";
And so on...
I will then create a manager class to help me in finding the translations for each necessary language for the key. It would look something like this:
public function getLanguageName($key) {
return lang(key);
}
Now I have two main questions:
1) Is this a good way of approaching the issue I have?
2) Let's say I need the languages to be shown in a drop-down. I want this dropdown to be alphabetically sorted (order will be different based on the language selected, of course). How do I approach this issue? Do I load in all the values from the language file, put them in an array and then sort that array?
