basteyy / php-i18n

basteyy PHP I18n

As an old CakePHP user, I started with the __() function. I liked the approach for small projects and created this small package for my own projects.

You use the __() somewhere in your code. As long, you don't create translations, the argument (string) will be returned. If you create a translation, the translation will be returned.

Installation

composer require basteyy/php-i18n

Usage

The languages files are in ini format. For supporting all variants of strings, the key is hashed using the xxh3 algorithm (which is the fastest algorithm for php now).

; Content of /var/www/lang/de_DE.ini

; Original: Add 
2519a9e8bc4544e5 = "Hinzufügen"

; Original: Remove
d93080c2fe513df2 = "Entfernen"

; Original: Remove %s Items
4937f99272d45d21 = "%s Dinge entfernen"

// Content of /var/www/index.php

use basteyy\I18n\I18n;

I18n::addTranslationFolder(__DIR__ . '/lang/');
I18n::addTranslationFolder(__DIR__ . '/another_folder/');
I18n::setTranslationLanguage('de_DE');

echo __('Add');
// Result: Hinzufügen

echo __("Remove");
// Result: Entfernen

echo __('Remove %s Item\'s ', 3212);
// Result: 3212 Dinge entfernen

echo __('A new string');
// Result: A new string

echo __('A new string with placeholder %s', 'inside');
// Result: A new string with placeholder inside

Translate an app/website

You can use the bash script to generate the translation file. Please be aware, that this is a simple solution. It's easy to break it down with using =.

To translate an website, you can use the shell command

php vendor/basteyy/php-i18n/src/bin/I18nBaker source_folder target_file options --no-comments

In case you have your files, which shpuld be translated, stored under /var/www/src/templates/ and you want to store the translation file at /var/www/src/translations/dk_DK.ini, you need to perform this:

php vendor/basteyy/php-i18n/src/bin/I18nBaker /var/www/src/templates/ /var/www/src/translations/dk_DK.ini

Options

You can append the following options:

--no-comments will output a translation file, without any comments.

php vendor/basteyy/php-i18n/src/bin/I18nBaker /var/www/src/templates/ /var/www/src/translations/dk_DK.ini --no-comments

Todo

• Write tests
• Add more options to the shell command
• Create a solid shell app (maybe with symfony/console)