I want to localize my webapp. Since localization through javascript only is not remended I thought using php would be an alternative.
So with php I read a messages.json file that stores all localization data.
$json = file_get_contents("_locales/en/messages.json");
In the header of my webapp I generate some javascript with php according to the user's browser language.
echo "var localeObj = " . $json . ";";
So this is just a var that holds all data from the messages.json file that looks like that
{
"extTitle": {
"message": "Test1"
},
"extName":{
"message": "Test2"
}
}
Now I want to be able to access each item from the json like
var title = getItem("extTitle");
and it returns Test1. Any idea how to do that?
I am not very familar with json but if I just alert the localeObj it gives me just [object Object].
I want to localize my webapp. Since localization through javascript only is not remended I thought using php would be an alternative.
So with php I read a messages.json file that stores all localization data.
$json = file_get_contents("_locales/en/messages.json");
In the header of my webapp I generate some javascript with php according to the user's browser language.
echo "var localeObj = " . $json . ";";
So this is just a var that holds all data from the messages.json file that looks like that
{
"extTitle": {
"message": "Test1"
},
"extName":{
"message": "Test2"
}
}
Now I want to be able to access each item from the json like
var title = getItem("extTitle");
and it returns Test1. Any idea how to do that?
I am not very familar with json but if I just alert the localeObj it gives me just [object Object].
4 Answers
Reset to default 4var getItem = function(item) {
return localObj[item].message;
};
You could always encapsulate your i18n strings too...
(function() {
var localObj = { ... };
window.getItem = function(item) {
return localObj[item].message;
};
})();
This way, no other variables can possibly clobber your localObj.
You use array syntax [], or dot syntax ., to access javascript object properties.
Example:
localeObj["extTitle"];
localeObj.extTitle;
I would remend reading something like this to get more familier with JSON.
You can initialize javascript variable like this.
var json = eval(<? echo $json ?>);
alert(json.extTitle.message+ ' '+json.extName.message);
Inside messages.php:
<?php
header('Content-type:application/javascript');
$messages = array(
"yes"=>"hai",
"no"=>"iie"
);
$messages = json_encode($messages);
echo "window.messages = $messages";
?>
Inside index.html:
<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript" src="messages.php"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
console.log(window.messages)
</script>
</body>
</html>
As long as you tell the browser to interpret the php file as a javascript file, you can echo anything you want.