crodas/intl

easy internationalization support for PHP

dev-master 2014-08-29 15:03 UTC

Requires

• crodas/cli: *
• symfony/finder: *
• symfony/yaml: *

BSD-4-Clause

• César D. Rodas

README

Easy internationalization support for PHP

It aims to be a drop-in replacement for gettext.

Setup

It can be installed with composer

composer require crodas/intl:dev-master

Concepts

crodas/intl at run time provides a few functions (__, _e and _ if gettext in not installed) to translate text. It also provides a generator that walks throughtout the project and extract all texts it can find and generates a template file.

That template needs to be copied in order to create new locales or languages. You can run this process as many time as you'd like, the template file and all locale files are going to be updated (but we never override its content).

Whenever you update your locale files you would need to compile it in order to load efficiently from your PHP app.

TODO: add demos

Using

In order to use crodas/intl, it needs to be initialized as follows:

require "vendor/autoload.php";

crodas\Intl::init("/tmp/language.php", $locale);

It takes two arguments, the first is the compiled locale and the second is the language to use.

It is possible to switch to another locale at any time by doing:

crodas\Intl::setLanguage($locale);

Then you can call to __("Hello") and __("Hello %s, welcome"), they will be replaced with the correct locale or the default content will be print if we can't the locale file or the sentence to translate, pretty much like gettext works.