[wp-hackers] Plugin Localization

[Ryan Duff]

David Chait wrote:
> Sounds like the plugins/<plugin sub dir>/ approach would be the best for 
> the long haul, as anything custom translated for a plugin should stay 
> WITH the plugin.
> 
> I've also gotten requests to put my multi-file plugins into single 
> folders for easier management, which mirrors the same issue (clutter & 
> 'packaging').
> 
> -d
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
>> It came up in #wordpress this afternoon about the placement of the .mo 
>> files for plugins. Currently they need to reside in the 
>> wp-content/plugins/ folder which causes uglyness.
>>
>> One option is to allow the plugin authors to keep them in the plugin 
>> folder. Its pretty much the same as current, but more flexible. In 
>> this case, the .mo should be located in either wp-content/plugins/ or 
>> wp-content/plugins/<plugin sub dir>/ As stated before, this can cause 
>> ugliness unless in the main plugins folder unless the author makes a 
>> sub-directory for the plugin files.

Thats my pick of the two. We've begun to throw wp-contact-form into a 
folder to keep all the files together. Cleaner for the dev and the user. 
One folder to upload, one folder to delete.

Maybe something like this for an updated load_plugin_textdomain() 
function to check if the plugin resides in a sub-folder...

function load_plugin_textdomain($domain) {
     $locale = get_locale();
     $plug_dir = dirname(__FILE__);
		
		if ($plug_dir != 'plugins') {
				$mofile = $plug_dir . "$domain-$locale.mo";
		} else {
				$mofile = ABSPATH . "wp-content/plugins/$domain-$locale.mo";
		}

     load_textdomain($domain, $mofile);
}


rboren: any comments?

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