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Choubidou
Choubidou

Reputation: 361

Internationalisation with Codeigniter and smarty

What is the best way to do an international website using Codeigniter framework and smarty template ?

Because I really don't know where begin ..

PS : I already have the librairies languages ..

Upvotes: 2

Views: 676

Answers (2)

merdan
merdan

Reputation: 1259

You need to load language helper first in your controller Then inside smarty template using language helper you can display messages

<div>{lang('msg_first_name')}</div>

Upvotes: 3

Kumar V
Kumar V

Reputation: 8830

Configuring Multi-Language Support

First we need to configure the necessary files before we can start using language support. The CodeIgniter config file, located in the application/config directory, contains an option called language which defines the default language of the application.

<?php
$config['language'] = 'english';

We also need to create the actual files which contain our messages in different languages. These files need to be placed inside the application/language directory with a separate directory for each language. For example, English language files should reside in the application/language/english directory, and French language files should be located in application/language/french.

Let’s create some language files that contain error messages for a sample application. Create the file english/message_lang.php (it’s important that all of the language files have the suffix _lang.php). The following code contains some sample entries for the content of our language file:

<?php
$lang["msg_first_name"] = "First Name";
$lang["msg_last_name"] = "Last Name";
$lang["msg_dob"] = "Date of Birth";
$lang["msg_address"] = "Address";

For more reference, refer this link

Upvotes: 1

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