Question

I have built a multilingual website with CodeIgniter using this library:

http://codeigniter.com/wiki/URI_Language_Identifier/

I use it to change language in the navigation menu and the captions for some pictures. The problem is that to edit these texts I have to actually open the language file and change it there. I’d like to create an admin panel to manage these files. Is there a nice and clean way to do this?

Answer 1

Another option besides parsing, editing and saving the actual files, is to move the language translations from the language file to the database, then you can build the $lang array from the database inside the language file.

So your language file becomes:

$LANGCI =& get_instance();

$lang_query = $LANGCI->db->where('lang', 'language_x')->get('language');

foreach ($lang_query->result() as $language_data) {

    $lang[$language_data->index] = $language_data->translation;
}

Instead of:

$lang['min_size']           = 'The %s field must be at least %s.';
$lang['max_size']           = 'The %s field can not exceed %s.';

Then you could use normal database calls to add/edit/update the translations.