Re: Themes and Languages

If all you need is language support and the layout is identical use gettext.
See the following thread
http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/f8c98544bd6352ee/8e43b549197028ee?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=zaky+po#8e43b549197028ee

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Kareem Sabri <kareemsjunk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have multiple languages on my site (right now just English and
> French). English is the default layouts and views. French is a theme
> called 'french'. Sometimes I apply other themes for clients, so I
> create themes and just override the views I want. The problem is, for
> a french language site, if a themed view file doesn't exist it
> defaults back to English. I want the French sites (identified by a
> language_id field in the database) to default to the 'french' theme if
> the theme file isn't found.
>
> I've considered a couple of ways to do this:
>
> 1.
>
> Put in my app_controller - where themes are applied:
>
> if (file_exists('/views/themed/theme_name/'.$this-
>>params['action'].'.ctp') {
>        $this->theme = 'theme_name';
> } else {
>       if ($language_id==2) {
>                 $this->theme = 'french'
>       }
> }
>
> This solution is ok, but I'm not crazy about it as I'm probably
> duplicating functionality from cakes core classes.
>
> 2.
>
> Ditch themes for languages and create multi-language view files
> (English and French are identical except for text being translated -
> same stylesheets). Also not crazy about this, I like my clean view
> files with very little PHP in them.
>
> Does the community have any better suggestions to handle Language
> switching?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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