cracksalad/i18n

PHP library to properly handle internationalization, but in a stateless fashion - no gettext()!

0.1.1 2023-08-25 17:23 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.0
• gettext/gettext: ^5.7

MIT

• Andreas Wahlen

• i18n
• translation
• locale
• intl
• gettext

README

This library depends on php-gettext/Gettext and is inspired by delight-im/PHP-I18N as well as gettext.

Although this library is mainly compatible with delight-im/PHP-I18N, there are some differences. The main difference is that this library does not use gettext() and setlocale() but instead is stateless and thereby supports independent (concurrent) request handling as it is done with PSR-15: HTTP Handlers and OpenSwoole. Another difference is that this library does not try to detect the users language based on the domain and path of the current URL or on some cookie.

Installation

NOTE: This library requires PHP 8.0+

composer require cracksalad/i18n

Usage

First you need to create translation files (e.g. using xgettext in bash) in a folder structure like this:

locale/
├─ en/
│  ├─ LC_MESSAGES/
│  │  ├─ messages.mo
│  │  ├─ messages.po
├─ de/
│  ├─ LC_MESSAGES/
│  │  ├─ messages.mo
│  │  ├─ messages.po

use Cracksalad\I18n\I18n;

$i18n = I18n::load('en');

$i18n->_('Hello world!');       
// -> Hello world!

// format (using sprintf() internally)
$i18n->_f('%d items saved', 42);      
// -> 42 items saved

// ICU MessageFormat
$i18n->_fe('I first published this library on {0, date, short}', 1692982322);
// -> I first published this library on 8/23/23

// singular vs. plural with format
$i18n->_pf('%d item saved', '%d items saved', 42);
// -> 42 items saved
$i18n->_pf('%d item saved', '%d items saved', 1);
// -> 1 item saved

License

This library is licensed under the MIT License (MIT). Please see LICENSE for more information.