Mr Kirkland 2.0

My good friend Owen Christian and myself have cooked up a nice little code igniter language file translator. This is a controller and series of views that you can drop in on your CI install and then use a nice front end to manage administration of the language files for your application.

This is meant for people to be able to edit the standard application language files in your CI install, which work with the CI Language Class. The basic idea is that you have a master language, and then this allows translators to translate into other languages.

Features

• UTF8 support
• Handles php in language strings
• Synchronises language keys with ‘master’ language
• Checks php for syntax errors

Download

Download version 0.5.1 here

Installation

1. Unpack archive
   
tar -zxvf translator-0.5.tgz

2. Copy files into appropriate location in your CI install (or just unpack archive over your install)
3. If your language files are in an exotic location, edit config/translator.php
4. set language files to be writable by your webserver
5. that’s it!

Usage

1. (If you haven’t already) Create your master language files and keys e.g.:
   language/english/file1_lang.php
   
$lang['file1_some_key'] = ’some key’;
$lang['file2_another_key'] = ‘another key’;

   etc.
2. Create corresponding ’slave’ language files e.g.:
   language/japanese/file1_lang.php
   
   NB You don’t have to create the keys, just the empty writable files
3. Make sure language files are webserver writable
4. Fire up your new controller i.e. index.php/translator and go!

Screen Shots

So working on a phpbb2 -> phpbb3 upgrade this weekend and the final part was updating the script to sync my applications user table with phpbb3, so users of my application automatically have an account on the forum with the same credentials.

phpbb3 has a new password handling system so it’s not so simple to write raw queries to insert/update the phpbb database. Instead, after a little research I opted to use phpbb’s own functions to add a new user. As noted here and here you can call the user_add function from includes/functions_user.php. This works fine until you want to call the function from inside another function as noted on the above links, it’s a little tricky getting it to work.

I managed to come up with a fairly simple solution - you need to declare a number of key variables as global at the top of your function so they are in scope when you include the phpbb files.

define(’IN_PHPBB’, true);
/* set scope for variables required later */
global $phpbb_root_path;
global $phpEx;
global $db;
global $config;
global $user;
global $auth;
global $cache;
global $template;

# your php extension
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, ‘.’), 1);
$phpbb_root_path = ;

/* includes all the libraries etc. required */
require($phpbb_root_path .”common.php”);
$user->session_begin();
$auth->acl($user->data);

/* the file with the actual goodies */
require($phpbb_root_path .”includes/functions_user.php”);

/* All the user data (I think you can set other database fields aswell, these seem to be required )*/
$user_row = array(
‘username’ => “Username”,
‘user_password’ => md5(”Password”), ‘user_email’ => “Email”,
‘group_id’ => $default_group_id,
‘user_timezone’ => ‘1.00′,
‘user_dst’ => 0,
‘user_lang’ => ‘en’,
‘user_type’ => ‘0′,
‘user_actkey’ => ”,
‘user_dateformat’ => ‘d M Y H:i’,
‘user_style’ => $not_sure_what_this_is,
‘user_regdate’ => time(),
);

/* Now Register user */
$phpbb_user_id = user_add($user_row);

Code igniter is restrictive over permitted url characters (a good thing!), and it’s simple enough to edit the permitted_uri_config option to add more charaters. However, what if you’re dealing with Japanese charaters in the url?

Well (after a little searching) it turns out that this isn’t too difficult to fix as the config value is a regex and one can add the kanji charater ranges in a similar fashion to the standard ascii ‘a-z’ syntax:


$config['permitted_uri_chars'] = ‘a-z 0-9~%.:_-’;
　　　　　　　　↓
$config['permitted_uri_chars'] = ‘一-龠ぁ-んァ-ヴーａ-ｚＡ-Ｚ０-９a-z 0-9~%.:_-’;


courtesy of: http://pricewave.blog110.fc2.com/blog-category-4.html