[Catalyst] [Absolute Beginner] Navigation Q Part II i18n and URIs

[Nicholas Wehr]

again I shamelessly plug this module; works like a champ (proven w/
it,ja,en,br,de,fr,es,zh)! ;)

Catalyst::Plugin::Localize::Simple

http://search.cpan.org/~wehr/Catalyst-Plugin-Localize-Simple-1.1/lib/Cataly=
st/Plugin/Localize/Simple.pm

cheers,
-nw

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Ekki Plicht (DF4OR) <ep at plicht.de> wrote:

> Thanks  Mike, that looks promising. But as of now I have problems getting
> I18N
> to work at all. See other message.
>
> Cheers,
> Ekki
>
>
> Am Samstag 21 August 2010, 16:43:09 schrieb Mike Raynham:
> > Hi Ekki,
> >
> > I'm quite new to Catalyst too, and purely out of curiosity, I have
> > recently been looking into I18N.  I thought that you might find
> > Catalyst::Plugin::I18N::Request useful - it might be just what you are
> > after.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > Ekki Plicht (DF4OR) wrote:
> > > Hi Robert,
> > > your comments were most helpful, many thanks!
> > >
> > > As it is so often - after sending the message I did some more thinking
> > > and started to realize that my approach - starting with the controller
> -
> > > is probably not the best way to design this app.
> > > And your comments encourage me that I have to think about the model
> much
> > > more and probably first.
> > >
> > > What do you charge for a day of consulting? :-) It's time that I visit
> > > Hamburg again...
> > >
> > >
> > > Some details from your reply:
> > >
> > > Am Samstag 21 August 2010, 00:46:14 schrieben Sie:
> > >> Some things to consider:
> > >> =B7 Should the user be able to override the language?
> > >
> > > Of course.
> > >
> > >> =B7 Do you want to separate language by domain or URI part?
> > >
> > > URI part or parameter, undecided.
> > > I have never done this until now, but I want to extract the preferred
> > > language from the header, if set and if supported. If not an app wide
> > > default kicks in, which the user can override later on, this override
> > > value is persistent by a cookie, session racking or some such.
> > >
> > >> What would happen if someone who only accepts DE as language requests
> > >> the EN page?
> > >
> > > Customer is king, she gets what she wants.
> > >
> > >> Browser language detection is pretty easy with the I18N
> > >> plugin, but the implementation of the language logic is dependent on
> > >> what you want to happen.
> > >
> > > I will look at that, tnx.
> > >
> > >> Both the language and the article to display are variables in the
> > >> process of displaying the page. The language can come from a cookie,
> the
> > >> browser language setting, a query parameter, the domain name, a part
> of
> > >> the URI, or multiple of those using the first it can find.
> > >>
> > >> I'd always advise to build the actual business logic of the
> application
> > >> outside of the web front-end.
> > >
> > > Absolutely, that's why I decided to go with Catalyst :-)
> > >
> > >>> What I am envisioning is a central file where I (somehow, XML?,
> > >>> database?) maintain a navigation tree (ok, 5 or more), mapping menu
> > >>> entries to URIs. Some process then maps these entries to actions. B=
ut
> > >>> how?
> > >>
> > >> As a model. Look at Config::Any (already used by Cat) for loading of
> > >> configuration files. For a database model I'd point you towards
> > >> DBIx::Class, but mostly because of community-size and personal
> > >> preference. There are other solutions, but I feel it is a good start.
> > >
> > > Yes, I am already working through some light weight examples with
> > > DBIx::Class, that's most likely the way to go.
> > >
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > And all the rest, as I said helpful. Many thanks.
> > >
> > > Gru=DF,
> > > Ekki
> > >
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