Localization of Plugin

Question

Please plugins consider localization, too.

Experimental example code for facebook-login plugin)

qa-plugin/facebook-login/qa-facebook-login.php (modify L166...)

 

'fields' => array(

array(

//for localization 'label' => 'Your Facebook App ID:',

'label' => qa_lang_html('plugin-facebook-login/appid_label'),

'value' => qa_html(qa_opt('facebook_app_id')),

'tags' => 'NAME="facebook_app_id_field"',

),

 

array(

// for localization 'label' => 'Your Facebook App Secret:',

'label' => qa_lang_html('plugin-facebook-login/appsec_label'),

'value' => qa_html(qa_opt('facebook_app_secret')),

'tags' => 'NAME="facebook_app_secret_field"',

//for localization 'error' => $ready ? null : 'To use Facebook Login, please <A HREF="http://developers.facebook.com/setup/" TARGET="_blank">set up a Facebook application</A>.',

'error' => $ready ? null : strtr(qa_lang_html('plugin-facebook-login/fb_hint'),array('^1'=>'<A HREF="http://developers.facebook.com/setup/" TARGET="_blank">','^2'=>'</A>')),

),

),

 

'buttons' => array(

array(

//'label' => 'Save Changes',

'label' => qa_lang_html('main/save_button'),

'tags' => 'NAME="facebook_save_button"',

),

),

qa-include/qa-lang-plugin-facebook-login.php (add file)

<?php

 

/*

Question2Answer 1.3-beta-2 (c) 2010, Gideon Greenspan

 

http://www.question2answer.org/

 

 

File: qa-include/qa-lang-plugin-facebook-login.php

Version: 1.3-beta-2

Date: 2010-11-11 10:26:02 GMT

Description: Language phrases for facebook login plugin

 

 

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2

of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

 

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

GNU General Public License for more details.

 

More about this license: http://www.question2answer.org/license.php

*/

 

return array(

'appid_label' => 'Your Facebook App ID:',

'appsec_label' => 'Your Facebook App Secret:',

'fb_hint' => 'To use Facebook Login, please ^1set up a Facebook application^2.',

);

 

 

/*

Omit PHP closing tag to help avoid accidental output

*/

Sorry, Gideon is very busy...

Best regards.

Answer 1

Yes, I imagine localization will come to plugins in the future - for now you can simply make a copy of the plugin and change phrases as appropriate.