Language

How to easily work with language files

Assigning language values to a template can be a boring and repetitive process, as always on Tequila, we want to work less.

File structure:

Your page takes the language resources from:

• • A global language file

  • A page specific language file

Global language file.

All values common to an application should be stored in this file, i.e.:

• • Ok button,

  • cancel button,

  • general error messages

Page language file

Follow the same naming as the view and contain language values for only this page

Structure of the language file

The language file is created as a Multidimensional array to allow values to be processed as groups,

i.e.

$lang['label']['lbl_headertext'] = 'lbl_headertext';

In this case ‘label’ is the group, which allow the group to be processed together

Language assignment

Group assignment

There are many ways of doing this, if you need to replace 20 different tags in the same section of a document, simply group them as mentioned before, i.e. ‘label’ or ‘results’ and then assign them in one single instructions

$this->setlang(‘label’);

You can still assign single values, or use the traditional assign, the value of the setlang function is:

• • Avoid calling global for $lang

  • Process one or many values together

  • Reduce the amount of code and time to create pages

Single value assignment

You can use the same function with 2 parameters:

$this->setlang(‘label’, ‘lbl_headertext);

Or use the template functions instead

Global $lang; // Get access to the language resources

$this->template->assign(‘placeholder’, $lang[‘label’][‘lbl_headertext’]);

Strategies assignment

Strategies follow a similar pattern, you can call the function addlang, check Using strategies to view the whole functionality.

public function addlang($key, $subkey=null, $scope='block')