DBIx::BabelKit - Universal Multilingual Code Table Interface
use DBIx::BabelKit; my $bk = new DBIx::BabelKit($dbh, table => 'bk_code', getparam => sub { $cgi->param(shift) }, getparams => sub { $cgi->param(shift.'[]') } );
$str = $bk->desc( $code_set, $code_lang, $code_code); $str = $bk->ucfirst($code_set, $code_lang, $code_code); $str = $bk->ucwords($code_set, $code_lang, $code_code);
$str = $bk->render($code_set, $code_lang, $code_code); $str = $bk->data( $code_set, $code_lang, $code_code); $str = $bk->param( $code_set, $code_code)
var_name => 'start_day' value => $start_day default => 1 subset => [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ] options => 'onchange="submit()"'
$str = $bk->select($code_set, $code_lang, select_prompt => "Code set description?", blank_prompt => "None" ); $str = $bk->radio($code_set, $code_lang, blank_prompt => "None", sep => "<br>\n" );
$str = $bk->multiple($code_set, $code_lang, size => 10 ); $str = $bk->checkbox($code_set, $code_lang, sep => "<br>\n" );
$rows = $bk->lang_set($code_set, $code_lang); $rows = $bk->full_set($code_set, $code_lang);
$bk->slave($code_set, $code_code, $code_desc); $bk->remove($code_set, $code_code); ( $code_desc, $code_order, $code_flag ) = $bk->get($code_set, $code_lang, $code_code); $bk->put($code_set, $code_lang, $code_code, $code_desc, $code_order, $code_flag);
BabelKit is an interface to a universal multilingual database code table. BabelKit takes all of the programming work out of maintaining multiple database code definition sets in multiple languages.
The code administration and translation page lets you define new virtual code tables, new languages, enter all codes and their descriptions and then translate them into all languages of interest.
Perl and PHP classes retrieve the code descriptions and automatically generate HTML code selection elements in the user's language. This makes internationalization and localization of web sites and database interfaces much easier.
For news and updates visit the BabelKit home page:
http://www.webbysoft.com/babelkit
For a simpler unilingual universal code table visit the CodeKit home page:
http://www.webbysoft.com/codekit
Contact John Gorman at http://www.webbysoft.com to report bugs, request features, or for database design and programming assistance.
Copyright (C) 2003 John Gorman. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl or the LGPL.
To install DBIx::BabelKit, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm DBIx::BabelKit
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install DBIx::BabelKit
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.