Kohana 3.x Internationalization Module

Internationalization can be a pain: send translation files off to different people, import them, consolidate them, copy keys between files, add keys to the language files, etc-- this module eases some of those pains.

How to use:

Here are a few quick examples to get you started in managing your localizations. This is actually built into Kohana's command line interpreter.

Generating a language file

This goes through your application directory and looks for the localizing helper function (found in system/base.php). It generates a language file based off of all the occurrences it finds.

	php index.php --uri=i18n/generate --lang=en

Copying keys between files

You have one language file, and you need to update the other language file because you added / removed keys. This will take the source file and overwrite it with values of the target file, and output the final result.

	php index.php --uri=i18n/copy_keys --source=en --target=fr

Diff between language files

Find out which keys exist in the source, but not in the target file

	php index.php --uri=i18n/diff_keys --source=en --target=fr

Copy language files to a database

Assuming you already have a database configured, it will automatically generate the table (if it does not already exist) and put the language keys (from all language files) into the database.

	php index.php --uri=i18n/db_import

Export database data to files

This will remove all of the files from the APPPATH/i18n directory and will replace it with what is in the database. NOTE: If you are using source control, be sure to take into account checked in files and conflicts.

	php index.php --uri=i18n/db_export

Upcoming Features

I would like to add some of the following functionality to this module:

• A web-based language editor
• Excel import / export option