danbartram
commented
10 years ago Locale System
I was thinking we could implement the locale/language system by adding an extra top bar, just below or just above the current top bar with the page links.
The language links would be added via a foreach running through a variable like
$languages = array('en' => 'English', 'fr' => 'Français', 'es' => 'Español');The languages array keys will be ISO 639-1 codes in order to keep everything standard.
Which creates anchor elements with the content of the array value, and links to a _GET parameter with the array key.
So for example, the Spanish locale link would look like so:
<a href='/?locale=es'>Español</a>The href would obviously point to the current page instead of redirecting back to the homepage. When clicked, or when the $_GET parameter "locale" is present, a cookie will be set to keep track of it.
If there is no cookie, use the first 2 characters from the HTTP Accept-Language header.
Accept-Language: en-USwould default to "en" as the locale in the absence of a cookie declaring otherwise.
As for actually handling the locale text, we could have a class such as:
class Locale
{
function getText($text_key, $locale = 'en')
{
// Get the locale text translation for the provided $text_key id
}
}There could be a default set up in the class's __construct() call which checks for a cookie value of "locale".
The views would instead allocate "text_key" IDs to each part of text, such as:
$locale['en']['why_peercoin_title'] = "Why Peercoin?";
$locale['en']['why_peercoin_desc'] = "Through an innovative minting algorithm, the Peercoin network consumes far less energy, maintains stronger security, and rewards users in more sustainable ways than other cryptocurrencies.";These locale text arrays could be stored as one big locale.php file or in a directory named locales as files named locale.es.php for example.
Any locale text which does not exist for the provided language, such as the Spanish locale text array missing a translation which is used on the page, would be grabbed and displayed as English. That obviously isn't ideal, but hopefully that would never happen, and I think it'd be better than having no content.
I'm happy to get started on this system, but let me know if there's any issues or suggestions you have, as well as any questions you want cleared up.
super3
iheartcryptocoin
Need to condense the http://peercoin.net into a single landing page. Should be slightly modeled after https://litecoin.org/ in terms of simplicity.
Should contain space in the header for links to multiple languages. Single click links to downloads for Windows, Linux, and Soucecode. Should also contain a 2 paragraph summary of the unique features of Peercoin.
Below this we can place links to various resources, exchanges, other parts of the website, etc.