[pmwiki-users] setXL to change language of the page?

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 04:48:44PM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> not being able to find a directive that allows me to change the language
> of a page I thought I'd give it a trying with the following code:
> 
> Markup('setXL', '>$[phrase]',
>     '/\\(:setXL\\s+(\\S.*?):\\)/ei',
>     "setXL('$1')"
> );
> 
> function setXL($langs)
> {
>     global $XLLangs;
>     $args = ParseArgs($langs);
>     $XLLangs = $args[""];
> }
> 
> This adds a new directive (:setXL <languages>:). <languages> is a space
> separated list of the languages with the first one being preferred (e.g.
> "de en").
> 
> Those languages have to be loaded first using XLPage();
> 
> This is just a quick hack, so it might be the most evil piece of code in
> the world until Pm says something different ;).

It's not evil -- actually, it's completely within the design intent.  :-)

> PS: I've noticed that my $XLLangs contains "de" two times - perhaps
> because I've loaded two pages - the default and my local one? Is this
> a feature or a minor bug that eats some ressources when searching for
> translations?

It's a minor bug affecting only performance, not functionality.  
I think one can do 

    $XLLangs = array_unique($XLLangs);

to eliminate the duplication.

Pm