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copied!<p>The gettext system echoes strings from a set of binary files that are created from source text files containing the translations in different languages for the same sentence.</p> <p>The lookup key is the sentence in a "base" language.</p> <p>in your source code you will have something like</p> <pre><code>echo _("Hello, world!"); </code></pre> <p>for each language you will have a corresponding text file with the key and the translated version (note the %s that can be used with printf functions)</p> <pre><code>french msgid "Hello, world!" msgstr "Salut, monde!" msgid "My name is %s" msgstr "Mon nom est %s" italian msgid "Hello, world!" msgstr "Ciao, mondo!" msgid "My name is %s" msgstr "Il mio nome è %s" </code></pre> <p>These are the main steps you need to go through for creating your localizations</p> <ul> <li>all your text output must use gettext functions (gettext(), ngettext(), _())</li> <li>use xgettext (*nix) to parse your php files and create the base .po text file</li> <li>use <a href="http://www.poedit.net/" rel="noreferrer">poedit</a> to add translation texts to the .po files</li> <li>use msgfmt (*nix) to create the binary .mo file from the .po file</li> <li>put the .mo files in a directory structure like</li> </ul> <p>locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/myPHPApp.mo</p> <p>locale/en_EN/LC_MESSAGES/myPHPApp.mo</p> <p>locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/myPHPApp.mo</p> <p>then you php script must set the locale that need to be used</p> <p>The example from the php manual is very clear for that part</p> <pre><code><?php // Set language to German setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE'); // Specify location of translation tables bindtextdomain("myPHPApp", "./locale"); // Choose domain textdomain("myPHPApp"); // Translation is looking for in ./locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/myPHPApp.mo now // Print a test message echo gettext("Welcome to My PHP Application"); // Or use the alias _() for gettext() echo _("Have a nice day"); ?> </code></pre> <p>Always from the php manual look <a href="http://zez.org/article/articleview/42/2/" rel="noreferrer">here</a> for a good tutorial</p>

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