[rozojc]

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know if there is some kind of software (Either in PHP or in any other) that can take PHP files, search for the texts that are not part of any tags of code, replace them with <?=$someVariable;?> and meanwhile automatically create a language file for the script?

That way, if we had an old series of scripts lying around that we never made with language files, we could run this application and have the script modified for use with a language file, and a language file automatically created...

Thanks,

Juan Camilo
rozo@saryon.com

[NeverMind]

I got your idea but what do you mean by : "for the texts that are not part of any tags of code" ?
some php files only contains pure php ..

[rozojc]

Originally Posted by NeverMind

I got your idea but what do you mean by : "for the texts that are not part of any tags of code" ?
some php files only contains pure php ..

Well, I mean that if in some part of the php I have something like:

<tr id="myId">
<td>Hi there</td>
</tr>

Then the script would take only the "Hi there" string, as the "myId" is part of the tag called "id". Then, he would replace the code for something like
<tr id="myId">
<td><?=$message[0];?></td>
</tr>

And meanwhile, he would create a language file that would be something like:
<?
$message[0]="Hi there";
?>

So one would just run this script over a complete web site , etc., and it would automatically do the job...

Does that exist?

[Stefan]

ok, this is purely theoretic, but here's what I just thought of:

you read the content of an html file into a variable, then use strip_tags() to strip all html from that file. what is left is all the "language" you are using. then you could take that, and use regular expressions to change all the entries of that "language" into variables.

but, as I said, this is purely theoretic, I've never tried this.

[rozojc]

Originally Posted by Stefan

ok, this is purely theoretic, but here's what I just thought of:

you read the content of an html file into a variable, then use strip_tags() to strip all html from that file. what is left is all the "language" you are using. then you could take that, and use regular expressions to change all the entries of that "language" into variables.

but, as I said, this is purely theoretic, I've never tried this.

Could work, has ane1 here done this?

Does it sound stupid what I'm looking for, or does anybody else think it could be useful?