[Dbix-class] Advices needed on creating multilingual application

[Matt S Trout]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 07:19:52AM +0300, mbit at ukr.net wrote:
> Matt S Trout(dbix-class at trout.me.uk)@Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 06:14:08PM +0100:
> > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 11:50:26AM +0300, mbit at ukr.net wrote:
> > > Hello.
> > > 
> > > I need an advice on writing multilangual web-application. Question is not
> > > about i18n or localization, that's was described here many times and i got it
> > > worked pretty easy :) The thing is in organizing database storage.
> > > 
> > > Let's assume an easy application. We have a blog. But there are three versions
> > > int three languages: en, de and ru for example. But when we don't have a
> > > translation for the en part, we show original part. This way first we add
> > > original post in de, and then if we translate that part we add translation. And
> > > when a user views en version of the site he sees translated part. Otherwize he
> > > sees de version. This way in all three languages we have complete website, just
> > > not everything is always translated, but we know what changed and was added in
> > > all languages.
> > 
> > Don't hit the database for every string.
> > 
> > Use Catalyst::Plugin::I18N and generate out to string dictionaries / .po files.
> > 
> > Then you can make the DB storage as inefficient as you like :)
> 
> Didn't get your humor here ;-)
> 
> But please answer a question: can we somehow create relationship where we can
> provide args in runtime, so this is possible:

Yes.

But like I say, that's not the approach I'd use since you'll bottleneck
horribly on the DB that way.

Generate out to .po files and stop worrying about abusing SQL.

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