Posted by Geoff May on 06/05/05 07:20

mpinsley@gmail.com wrote:
> We are a software company that provides Inventory & Procurement
> mangement to the hospitality industry. For the past twenty years we
> have been using Progress Software as both the development language and
> the underlying database. We are in the process of exploring new
> languages to write our application in, as Progress is becoming
> expensive for us.
>
> Here are some of our issues
>
> 1. Progress is a 4GL language so it is very rapid development. We would
> like something that is as fast or faster

Only 4GL I know is UNIFACE which you may want to look into:

http://www.compuware.com/products/uniface/

> [snipped]
>
> 9. We will eventually be providing multi-language capabilities...does
> PHP support this?

I use multi-language support in the database in my signature. I have a
table called LTXT which is defined as:

CREATE TABLE `ltxt` (
`TextCode` varchar(8) NOT NULL default '' COMMENT 'Text code',
`LangCode` varchar(8) NOT NULL default 'eng' COMMENT 'Language code',
`TextStrg` varchar(255) default NULL COMMENT 'Text string',
PRIMARY KEY (`TextCode`,`LangCode`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 COMMENT='Multilanguage support'

and I make calls to that table for all output strings. The basic idea is
similar to UNIFACE multi-language support.

(Side note, I cannot answer the snipped questions).

MfG

Geoff.


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