CodeIgniter：为不同的语言创建一个html模板

Question

I have a little issue with that subject.

Imagine, I need to create a template with some variables:

<div class="main_text">
    We would like to tell you that ...blah-blah...
    <?php $username ?>
    and after that we want to blah blah... 
    <?php $first_variable ?>
    and
    <?php $second_variable ?> etc.
<div>

I can see two ways for making this working with different languages:

1. Create a template for each language. It is faster, but makes more code.

2. Create language constants in a codeigniter way, for each part of string, like this:

   $lang['WE_WOULD_LIKE'] = 'We would like to tell you that ...blah-blah...';
   $lang['AND_AFTER_THAT'] = 'and after that we want to blah blah...';
   

And then populate it while parsing the template. This way is also not the best, too much small constants.

Maybe somebody knows a better way? Please show me the way.

Answer 1

Codeigniter actually has a built in language class.

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.

Usage would be like the following once the desired language is set:

$this->lang->line('language_key');

Update: To pass variable's to the language variables you can use PHP's sprintf:

$lang['WE_WOULD_LIKE'] = "We would like to tell you that %1$s and %2$s";

And then to get that variable:

$message = sprintf($this->lang->line('WE_WOULD_LIKE'), $first, $second);