[pmwiki-users] XLpage: 1st parameter?
Mike
mike at widowitz.com
Tue Oct 3 12:54:41 CDT 2006
Thanks. I posted your reply to the wiki as well, I think future users
may find it useful.
Cheers,
Mike
Patrick R. Michaud wrote on 03.10.2006 17:33:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 12:58:21PM +0200, Mike wrote:
>> the XLpage function takes two parameters: the second specifies where the
>> translations are to come from - easily understood. But why do I need the
>> first parameter?
>>
>> If in
>> XLPage('fr','PmWikiFr.XLPage');
>>
>> I'd write instead:
>> XLPage('strangelanguage','PmWikiFr.XLPage');
>>
>> then after all PmWiki would still retrieve translation strings from
>> PmWikiFr.XLPage, i.e. translate into French, no matter what I wrote for
>> the first parameter?
>
> The XLPage mechanism allows multiple sets of translations to be loaded,
> and the first parameter is used to distinguish them.
>
> For example, suppose I want to have translations for both normal French
> and "Canadian" French. Rather than maintain two entirely separate sets
> of pages, I could do:
>
> XLPage('fr', 'PmWikiFr.XLPage');
> XLPage('fr-ca', 'PmWikiFrCa.XLPage');
>
> PmWikiFr.XLPage would contain all of the standard French translations,
> while PmWikiFrCA.XLPage would only need to contain "Canada-specific"
> translations -- i.e., those that are different from the ones in the
> French page.
>
> The first parameter distinguishes the two sets of translations.
> In addition, a config.php script can use the $XLLangs variable
> to adjust the order of translation, so if there was a group or
> page where I only wanted the standard French translation, I
> can set
>
> $XLLangs = array('fr', 'en');
>
> and PmWiki will use only the 'fr' and 'en' translations (in that order),
> no matter how many translations have been loaded with XLPage().
>
> Hope that explains things well enough...
>
> Pm
>
>
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