Hello Robin & you all,
Short answer (sorry, quite busy on other stuff currently), with my opinion.
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:48:17PM -0700, Robin Johnson wrote:
after investigating character sets & languages for quite a while now, and writing a correct implentation of a language system for my phpDNS project, i wanted to propose adding the same system to phpMyAdmin. [...]
All this sounds quite good. The only think I not really find good is the need of a database for the strings : phpMyAdmin is mainly used and installed by "php&mysql newbies", and if we ask them to install and configure a table just to be able to use phpMyAdmin, I'm pretty sure there will be lots of posts in the help forums... :)
Features:
- Can detect user language and character set from browser, incl regional variants
it's already the case (added by myself, and then completed by loic)
- supports HTTP/1.1 language/charset q-values.
what's that ? : the Content-Type: text/html; charset=xxxxx stuff ?
- automatically sets correct fonts.
would be nice, right.
- can figure out the most likely language to use if the exact language
support is not available.
ok, easy thing :)
- all language data stored in a database, for easy updating
maybe practical, but not new-user-friendly, and one textfile per language, plus a entry in the language-list is not so bad I think (IMHO of course :).
- able to include mroe than one language, eg load 'fr' and then 'fr-ca' on top of that to redefine only some tags.
let the translator work :)
Known caveats:
- don't know if sessions are supported on non-UNIX platforms I think sessions are supported on NT, but not sure beyond that
phpMyAdmin is still php3-based, so no sessions yet.
- size of session files possibly I should reduce the session file lifetime?
could be done in php.ini: session.cache_expire / session.cookier_lifetime, etc.
see the main phpDNS active working tree at http://phpdns-local.orbis-terrarum.net/phpDNS/userspace/
- login: test
- password: test
mmm, after login, I only see blank white screen (netscape under windows), under opera there are some more things, but lots of 404. Will try again later...
Voila, these were just 100% personal comments: let's see what the others think :)
Regards & nice week-end to you, Olivier