Language file

You are making a great application why limit it to one language!

Location

You will find language resources under

languages/XX

Naming

Language file must follow the name of the controller

Adding languages

You can copy EN folder to create your own ES/ DE / NO / FI /JP /TH or any other.

UTF8 notice

All utf8 languages are supported, but beware BOM is evil and can make Ajax calls fail, apparently it send some header info before when the file is included so just save your files without BOM

Let's make our language file,

Please create

language/EN/categories.php

The code

1 <?php 2 global $lang; 3 #-------------------- TITLE FIELDS ----------------------------- 4 $lang["title"] = "Categories Maintenance"; 5 6 #----------- TAGS FOR INPUT FIELDS ----------------------------- 7 $lang["label"]["lbl_I_NAME"] = "Category name"; 8 9 #----------- HEADER FOR LIST COLUMNS --------------------------- 10 $lang["list_header"]["im_recipes"] = "See recipes!"; 11 ?>

How Tequila organize the language file?

Again we were feeling lazy assigning every define for language files, so we decide the way to use "pseudo-inheritance" was to use an array, there is a global language file that defines most buttons, error messages, navigation labels, etc.

Language entries are grouped in arrays, so for example:

All buttons are part of $lang['btn'] array,

All messages are part of $lang["msg"] array

While for buttons it make no sense to apply all together, all labels can be assigned in one go saving a lot of effort. it also contributes to the application looking more standard and we avoid loading gigantic language files (1 file per application) while reusing the labels

The global language file is : general_lang.php

Finally finished! You got a categories page, now let's make recipes a little bit faster before you fly away