CakePHP: 本地化选择框里面的数据

If you have a configurable list in table(t_credit_types) like:

1->Gold

2->Silver

3->Bronze

and you have get all data from that table by a find.

Now instead of using the english string in a selection box, you are required to display localized strings.

There are two ways of localizing the selection box in cakephp.

Solution 1. provide localized strings in db table

t_credits_types_lang

(credit_type_id+lang+description)

1->zh_CN->黄金
2->zh_CN->白银
3->zh_CN->黄铜

now you can find all localized strings from this additional table by certain language code.

$types = $this->CreditType->find('list', array(
'conditions' => array('lang'=>'zh_CN'),
'fields' => array('type','description'),
));

echo $form->input('type', array('type' => 'select', 'options' => $types));

Solution 2. localize these strings in view template

say, if you retreived all types by below sql:

$types = $this->CreditType->find('list', array(
'fields' => array('type','description'),
));

in view template, what we need to do is simply as:

$lc_types = array();
foreach($types as $key=>$value) {
$lc_types[$key] = __($value, true);
}
echo $form->input('type', array('type' => 'select', 'options' => $lc_types));

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