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README.md
Gettext
Created by Oscar Otero http://oscarotero.com oom@oscarotero.com (MIT License)
Gettext is a PHP (>=5.4) library to import/export/edit gettext from PO, MO, PHP, JS files, etc.
Installation
With composer (recomended):
composer require gettext/gettext
If you don't use composer in your project, you have to download and place this package in a directory of your project. You need to install also gettext/languages. Then, include the autoloaders of both projects in any place of your php code:
include_once "libs/gettext/src/autoloader.php";
include_once "libs/cldr-to-gettext-plural-rules/src/autoloader.php";
Classes and functions
This package contains the following classes:
Gettext\Translation
- A translation definitionGettext\Translations
- A collection of translationsGettext\Extractors\*
- Import translations from various sources (po, mo, php, js, etc)Gettext\Generators\*
- Export translations to various formats (po, mo, php, json, etc)Gettext\Translator
- To use the translations in your php templates instead the gettext extensionGettext\GettextTranslator
- To use the gettext extension
Usage example
use Gettext\Translations;
//import from a .po file:
$translations = Translations::fromPoFile('locales/gl.po');
//edit some translations:
$translation = $translations->find(null, 'apple');
if ($translation) {
$translation->setTranslation('Mazá');
}
//export to a php array:
$translations->toPhpArrayFile('locales/gl.php');
//and to a .mo file
$translations->toMoFile('Locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo');
If you want use this translations in your php templates without using the gettext extension:
use Gettext\Translator;
//Create the translator instance
$t = new Translator();
//Load your translations (exported as PhpArray):
$t->loadTranslations('locales/gl.php');
//Use it:
echo $t->gettext('apple'); // "Mazá"
//If you want use global functions:
$t->register();
echo __('apple'); // "Mazá"
To use this translations with the gettext extension:
use Gettext\GettextTranslator;
//Create the translator instance
$t = new GettextTranslator();
//Set the language and load the domain
$t->setLanguage('gl');
$t->loadDomain('messages', 'Locale');
//Use it:
echo $t->gettext('apple'); // "Mazá"
//Or use the gettext functions
echo gettext('apple'); // "Mazá"
//If you want use the global functions
$t->register();
echo __('apple'); // "Mazá"
//And use sprintf/strtr placeholders
echo __('Hello %s', 'world'); //Hello world
echo __('Hello {name}', ['{name}' => 'world']); //Hello world
The benefits of using the functions provided by this library (__()
instead _()
or gettext()
) are:
- You are using the same functions, no matter whether the translations are provided by gettext extension or any other method.
- You can use variables easier because
sprintf
functionality is included. For example:__('Hello %s', 'world')
insteadsprintf(_('Hello %s'), 'world')
. - You can also use named placeholders if the second argument is an array. For example:
__('Hello %name%', ['%name%' => 'world'])
instead ofstrtr(_('Hello %name%'), ['%name%' => 'world'])
.
Translation
The Gettext\Translation
class stores all information about a translation: the original text, the translated text, source references, comments, etc.
// __construct($context, $original, $plural)
$translation = new Gettext\Translation('comments', 'One comment', '%s comments');
$translation->setTranslation('Un comentario');
$translation->setPluralTranslation('%s comentarios');
$translation->addReference('templates/comments/comment.php', 34);
$translation->addComment('To display the amount of comments in a post');
echo $translation->getContext(); // comments
echo $translation->getOriginal(); // One comment
echo $translation->getTranslation(); // Un comentario
// etc...
Translations
The Gettext\Translations
class stores a collection of translations:
$translations = new Gettext\Translations();
//You can add new translations using the array syntax
$translations[] = new Gettext\Translation('comments', 'One comment', '%s comments');
//Or using the "insert" method
$insertedTranslation = $translations->insert('comments', 'One comment', '%s comments');
//Find a specific translation
$translation = $translations->find('comments', 'One comment');
//Edit headers, domain, etc
$translations->setHeader('Last-Translator', 'Oscar Otero');
$translations->setDomain('my-blog');
Extractors
The extrators allows to fetch gettext values from any source. For example, to scan a .po file:
$translations = new Gettext\Translations();
//From a file
Gettext\Extractors\Po::fromFile('locales/en.po', $translations);
//From a string
$string = file_get_contents('locales2/en.po');
Gettext\Extractors\Po::fromString($string, $translations);
The better way to use extractors is using the magic methods of Gettext\Translations
:
//Create a Translations instance using a po file
$translations = Gettext\Translations::fromPoFile('locales/en.po');
//Add more messages from other files
$translations->addFromPoFile('locales2/en.po');
The available extractors are the following:
Name | Description | Example |
---|---|---|
Blade | Scans a Blade template (For laravel users). | example |
Csv | Gets the messages from csv. | example |
CsvDictionary | Gets the messages from csv (without plurals and context). | example |
Jed | Gets the messages from a json compatible with Jed. | example |
JsCode | Scans javascript code looking for all gettext functions (the same than PhpCode but for javascript). You can use the javascript gettext-translator library | example |
Json | Gets the messages from json compatible with gettext-translator. | example |
JsonDictionary | Gets the messages from a json (without plurals and context). | example |
Mo | Gets the messages from MO. | example |
PhpArray | Gets the messages from a php file that returns an array. | example |
PhpCode | Scans php code looking for all gettext functions (see translator_functions.php ). |
example |
Po | Gets the messages from PO. | example |
Twig | To scan a Twig template. | example |
Xliff | Gets the messages from xliff (2.0). | example |
Yaml | Gets the messages from yaml. | example |
YamlDictionary | Gets the messages from a yaml (without plurals and context). | example |
VueJs | Gets the messages from a VueJs template. | example |
Generators
The generators export a Gettext\Translations
instance to any format (po, mo, array, etc).
//Save to a file
Gettext\Generators\Po::toFile($translations, 'locales/en.po');
//Return as a string
$content = Gettext\Generators\Po::toString($translations);
file_put_contents('locales/en.po', $content);
Like extractors, the better way to use generators is using the magic methods of Gettext\Translations
:
//Extract messages from a php code file
$translations = Gettext\Translations::fromPhpCodeFile('templates/index.php');
//Export to a po file
$translations->toPoFile('locales/en.po');
//Export to a po string
$content = $translations->toPoString();
file_put_contents('locales/en.po', $content);
The available generators are the following:
Name | Description | Example |
---|---|---|
Csv | Exports to csv. | example |
CsvDictionary | Exports to csv (without plurals and context). | example |
Json | Exports to json, compatible with gettext-translator. | example |
JsonDictionary | Exports to json (without plurals and context). | example |
Mo | Exports to Mo. | example |
PhpArray | Exports to php code that returns an array. | example |
Po | Exports to Po. | example |
Jed | Exports to json format compatible with Jed. | example |
Xliff | Exports to xliff (2.0). | example |
Yaml | Exports to yaml. | example |
YamlDictionary | Exports to yaml (without plurals and context). | example |
Translator
The class Gettext\Translator
implements the gettext functions in php. Useful if you don't have the native gettext extension for php or want to avoid problems with it. You can load the translations from a php array file or using a Gettext\Translations
instance:
use Gettext\Translator;
//Create a new instance of the translator
$t = new Translator();
//Load the translations using any of the following ways:
// 1. from php files (generated by Gettext\Extractors\PhpArray)
$t->loadTranslations('locales/gl.php');
// 2. using the array directly
$array = include 'locales/gl.php';
$t->loadTranslations($array);
// 3. using a Gettext\Translations instance (slower)
$translations = Gettext\Translations::fromPoFile('locales/gl.po');
$t->loadTranslations($translations);
//Now you can use it in your templates
echo $t->gettext('apple');
GettextTranslator
The class Gettext\GettextTranslator
uses the gettext extension. It's useful because combines the performance of using real gettext functions but with the same API than Translator
class, so you can switch to one or other translator deppending of the environment without change code of your app.
use Gettext\GettextTranslator;
//Create a new instance
$t = new GettextTranslator();
//It detects the environment variables to set the locale, but you can change it:
$t->setLanguage('gl');
//Load the domains:
$t->loadDomain('messages', 'project/Locale');
//this means you have the file "project/Locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po"
//Now you can use it in your templates
echo $t->gettext('apple');
Global functions
To ease the use of translations in your php templates, you can use the provided functions:
//Register the translator to use the global functions
$t->register();
echo __('apple'); // it's the same than $t->gettext('apple');
You can scan the php files containing these functions and extract the values with the PhpCode extractor:
<!-- index.php -->
<html>
<body>
<?= __('Hello world'); ?>
</body>
</html>
Merge translations
To work with different translations you may want merge them in an unique file. There are two ways to do this:
The simplest way is adding new translations:
use Gettext\Translations;
$translations = Translations::fromPoFile('my-file1.po');
$translations->addFromPoFile('my-file2.po');
A more advanced way is merge two Translations
instances:
use Gettext\Translations;
//Create a new Translations instances with our translations.
$translations1 = Translations::fromPoFile('my-file1.po');
$translations2 = Translations::fromPoFile('my-file2.po');
//Merge one inside other:
$translations1->mergeWith($translations2);
//Now translations1 has all values
The second argument of mergeWith
defines how the merge will be done. Use the Gettext\Merge
constants to configure the merging:
Constant | Description |
---|---|
Merge::ADD |
Adds the translations from $translations2 that are missing |
Merge::REMOVE |
Removes the translations missing in $translations2 |
Merge::HEADERS_ADD |
Adds the headers from $translations2 that are missing |
Merge::HEADERS_REMOVE |
Removes the headers missing in $translations2 |
Merge::HEADERS_OVERRIDE |
Overrides the headers with the values of $translations2 |
Merge::LANGUAGE_OVERRIDE |
Set the language defined in $translations2 |
Merge::DOMAIN_OVERRIDE |
Set the domain defined in $translations2 |
Merge::TRANSLATION_OVERRIDE |
Override the translation and plural translations with the value of $translation2 |
Merge::COMMENTS_OURS |
Use only the comments of $translation1 |
Merge::COMMENTS_THEIRS |
Use only the comments of $translation2 |
Merge::EXTRACTED_COMMENTS_OURS |
Use only the extracted comments of $translation1 |
Merge::EXTRACTED_COMMENTS_THEIRS |
Use only the extracted comments of $translation2 |
Merge::FLAGS_OURS |
Use only the flags of $translation1 |
Merge::FLAGS_THEIRS |
Use only the flags of $translation2 |
Merge::REFERENCES_OURS |
Use only the references of $translation1 |
Merge::REFERENCES_THEIRS |
Use only the references of $translation2 |
Example:
use Gettext\Translations;
use Gettext\Merge;
//Scan the php code to find the latest gettext translations
$phpTranslations = Translations::fromPhpCodeFile('my-templates.php');
//Get the translations of the code that are stored in a po file
$poTranslations = Translations::fromPoFile('locale.po');
//Merge the translations from the po file using the references from `$phpTranslations`:
$translations->mergeWith($poTranslations, Merge::REFERENCES_OURS);
//Now save a po file with the result
$translations->toPoFile('locale.po');
Note, if the second argument is not defined, the default value is Merge::DEFAULTS
that's equivalent to Merge::ADD | Merge::HEADERS_ADD
.
Use from CLI
There's a Robo task to use this library from the command line interface: https://github.com/oscarotero/GettextRobo
Use in the browser
If you want to use your translations in the browser, there's a javascript translator: https://github.com/oscarotero/gettext-translator
Third party packages
Twig integration:
Framework integration:
Contributors
Thanks to all contributors specially to @mlocati.
Donations
If this library is useful for you, consider to donate to the author.
Thanks in advance!