[Phpmyadmin-devel] MAJOR suggestion

[Robin Johnson]

Hi all,

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.

Features:
- Can detect user language and character set from browser, incl regional
variants
- supports HTTP/1.1 language/charset q-values.
- automatically sets correct fonts.
- can figure out the most likely language to use if the exact language
support is not available.
EG
if 'fr-ca' is supported (not plain 'fr'), but the user requests 'fr-ch',
they will get 'fr-ca' since it's the closest to 'fr-ch' that is available.
- all language data stored in a database, for easy updating
- able to include mroe than one language, eg load 'fr' and then 'fr-ca' on
top of that to redefine only some tags.
- supports multiple character sets per language
- call to get a string is i18n("String_Name")

Implementation:
- database uses a single table, and stores data in a tree structure inside
the table.
- OpTree is the wrapper class for handling the table.
- (I also use it to store most of the configuration options for the
program)
- On login, all the language data for your selected language is stored in
a session file, to avoid repeated database access.

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
- database overhead on first loadup
	actualy gets called twice, once for the login page, and once for
	the rest of the system
- size of session files
	possibly I should reduce the session file lifetime?
(can anybody suggest any more?)

see the main phpDNS active working tree at
http://phpdns-local.orbis-terrarum.net/phpDNS/userspace/
- login: test
- password: test

see the OpTree testing/modication backend
http://phpdns-local.orbis-terrarum.net/phpDNS/learning/options/optree.php
- click on 'view tree' to a get a quick dump of the page


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