diet-dictionary
v0.0.5
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Translation Engine for Dietjs
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Diet: Dictionary
With the dictionary module you can translate your app into any language using the echo() function and the dictionary table inside your mysql database.
Install
If you have diet then it's already installed.
npm install diet-dictionaryPrerequsitions
- Make sure you have
mysqlinstalled - Make sure you have
dietinstalled - Make sure you have correct
mysql configurationwhen you initialize yourdietapp - Create a
dictionarytable inside your mysql database
Example dictionary table
If you want to support more languages just create a new column for it and restart the server.
English | Hungarian | Spanish ---|---|--- Hello | Szia | Hola How are you? | Hogy vagy? | ¿Cómo estás?
Example Backend Usage
var app = new Application(options);
app.get('/', function(request, response, mysql){
// DEFINE language
response.head.language = 'Hungarian';
// Translate string
response.head.title = response.head.echo('Hello World');
// End HTTP Response
response.end(response.head.title); // -> outputs "Üdv Világ!"
mysql.end();
});Example Usage in HTML
<!DOCTYPE html/>
<html>
<head>
<title>{{-echo @title}}</title><!-- outputs: "Üdv Világ" -->
</head>
<body>
<h1>{{-echo @title}}</h1> <!-- outputs: "Üdv Világ" -->
<p>{{-echo 'How are you?'}}</p> <!-- outputs: "Hogy vagy?" -->
</body>
</html>Example Usage in Client Side JS
You will need to include the dictionary.js files which is autogenerated for you in:
/your_app/resources/scripts/dictionary.jsThis is how it looks like:
<!DOCTYPE html/>
<html>
<head>
<title>Piece of Cake</title>
<!-- Just Include the Auto Generated dictionary.js file -->
<script src="/scripts/dictionary.js"></script>
<!-- Then start using the echo function to translate things -->
<script>
var message = echo('Hello World');
alert(message); // alerts: "Üdv Világ"
</script>
</head>
<body>diet is awesome</body>
</html>You can see what's the current language in window.language set within dictionary.js. You can change the language by changing response.head.language in html and response.cookies.set('language', 'yourLanguage') for client side javacsript.