Localizing user fields (ie. gallery content rather than GUI)

Hello dr_gaston,

thanks for your effort.
Your solution looks nice, but _I_ think we cant use this for Gallery main code.

But the idea behind it is still very interesting and we wont forget it.
This is on my todo list for a later 1.4.1-cvs or maybe 1.4.2

wbR,

Jens

Hello,

this post was made 1,5 years ago
its definitely NOT working with 1.4.4.

Also i must correct my statement.
Its not longer on my ToDo for 1.x
This feature will never go in 1.x series.

Jens

Ok, I have a solution to gallery 1.4.4-pl6, using the idea of dr_gaston, I came with this solution... I am testing it, but with the titles of the albums works...

The idea:
Modify the editField function in util.php by adding some "parsing" functionality to it. What I do is to parse the field description. For example, a title of an album look like this:

"Default Language|en_US:Healthy Food|es_ES:Comida Sana"

then in the editField function I did this (it might not be the best of codes but hey! it works)

$lang = $gallery->language; //Get the gallery language
$lang .= ":";	      //Add colon to match the format I choose	
$arr_trans = explode('|',$album->fields[$field]);//Make an array
$x = count($arr_trans);//count translations
$flag = 0;    //a tiny little flag here
for($cont=0; $cont<$x; $cont++)//a loop to search and match the language the user choose
{
     if(strstr($arr_trans[$cont],$lang))  //Searchs for the language string
    {
       $title_lang = str_replace($lang, "",$arr_trans[$cont]); //Get the translation.
       $cont = $x; //stop the loop, there should be only one translation per language.
       $buf .= $title_lang; //add it to the $buf variable so it can do other stuff.
       $flag = 1; //change the flag.
    }
}								
if($flag == 0) //In case the translation wasn't found, display the default translation
	$buf .= $arr_trans[0];

I am testing it to find if this works on other fields that are modified by this function....

Here is the complete function.

function editField($album, $field, $link=null) {
	global $gallery;
	$buf = "";
	if ($link) {
		$buf .= "<a href=\"$link\">";
	}
	
		$lang = $gallery->language;
		$lang .= ":";															
		$arr_trans = explode('|',$album->fields[$field]);
		$x = count($arr_trans);
		$flag = 0;
		for($cont=0; $cont<$x; $cont++)
		{
			if(strstr($arr_trans[$cont],$lang))
			{
				$title_lang = str_replace($lang, "",$arr_trans[$cont]);
				$cont = $x;									
				$buf .= $title_lang;
				$flag = 1;				
			}								
		}
		if($flag == 0)
			$buf .= $arr_trans[0];
		
	if ($link) {
		$buf .= "</a>";
	}
	if ($gallery->user->canChangeTextOfAlbum($album)) {
		if (!strcmp($buf, "")) {
			$buf = "<i>&". _("Empty") . "&</i>";
		}
		$url = "edit_field.php?set_albumName={$album->fields['name']}&field=$field"; // should replace with & for validatation
		$buf .= " <span class=editlink>";
		$buf .= popup_link( "[". sprintf(_("edit %s"), _($field)) . "]", $url) ;
		$buf .= "</span>";
	}
	return $buf;
}

Of course any suggestions, improvements are always welcome! :D

Will multilingual caption be a G2 feature ?