different interface languages for different users?

[acker]

I guess the interface language(English, French etc.) is determined by server during initialization. What if I do want to change it? That means ppl in the SAME chat room can see different interface languages regardless of the chat content.

I can think of 2 possible cases, first is using only 1 chat room and the interface language is changable; the other is using multiple chat rooms, each with a different language option, and the chat content is synchronized.

what are the components I need to code on in the above 2 cases?

The reason I want to do this is, I am doing research on machine translation, and i'm planning to build a chatroom where ppl using different languages can communicate with each other (by doing real-time machine translation).

thank you!

[phpfreechat]

You can try to put "language" parameter in the "_dyn_params" list in src/pfcglobalconfig.class.php
So that this parameter will not be cached and you will be allowed to give a different language to each users using the $params array.

Keep me informed if it works.

[acker]

Thanks kerphi. I tried the following:
use a welcome page to let user select language, which will then be passed to index.php as url query. e.g. 'http://localhost/phpfreechat/index.php?lang=en_US' (could be other languages)
Then i used $params["language"] = $_GET['lang'] to set up the params

this works on version 0.9 but not 1.0 beta 11, it will halt at the loading chat screen. I really want to make it work on 1.0 coz it's much beautiful and with more functions.