-PHP-gettext 1.0
+PHP-gettext 1.0 (https://launchpad.net/php-gettext)
-Copyright 2003, 2006 -- Danilo "angry with PHP[1]" Segan
+Copyright 2003, 2006, 2009 -- Danilo "angry with PHP[1]" Segan
Licensed under GPLv2 (or any later version, see COPYING)
-[1] PHP is actually cyrillic, and translates roughly to
+[1] PHP is actually cyrillic, and translates roughly to
"works-doesn't-work" (UTF-8: Ради-Не-Ради)
file data, I used imaginary abstract class StreamReader to do all
the input (check streams.php). For your convenience, I've already
provided two classes for reading files: FileReader and
- StringReader (CachedFileReader is a combination of the two: it
- loads entire file contents into a string, and then works on that).
- See example below for usage. You can for instance use StringReader
- when you read in data from a database, or you can create your own
- derivative of StreamReader for anything you like.
-
+ StringReader (CachedFileReader is a combination of the two: it
+ loads entire file contents into a string, and then works on that).
+ See example below for usage. You can for instance use StringReader
+ when you read in data from a database, or you can create your own
+ derivative of StreamReader for anything you like.
-Bugs
-
- Plural-forms field in MO header (translation for empty string,
- i.e. "") is treated according to PHP syntactic rules (it's
- eval()ed). Since these should actually follow C syntax, there are
- some problems.
- For instance, I'm used to using this:
- Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; plural=n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : \
- n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2;
- but it fails with PHP (it sets $plural=2 instead of 0 for $n==1).
-
- The fix is usually simple, but I'm lazy to go into the details of
- PHP operator precedence, and maybe try to fix it. In here, I had
- to put everything after the first ':' in parenthesis:
- Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; plural=n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : \
- (n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2);
- That works, and I'm satisfied.
+Bugs
- Besides this one, there are probably a bunch of other bugs, since
- I hate PHP (did I mention it already? no? strange), and don't
- know it very well. So, feel free to fix any of those and report
- them back to me at <danilo@kvota.net>.
+ Report them on https://bugs.launchpad.net/php-gettext
Usage
Then, use that as a parameter to gettext_reader constructor:
$wohoo = new gettext_reader($streamer);
- If you want to disable pre-loading of entire message catalog in
- memory (if, for example, you have a multi-thousand message catalog
- which you'll use only occasionally), use "false" for second
+ If you want to disable pre-loading of entire message catalog in
+ memory (if, for example, you have a multi-thousand message catalog
+ which you'll use only occasionally), use "false" for second
parameter to gettext_reader constructor:
$wohoo = new gettext_reader($streamer, false);
From now on, you have all the benefits of gettext data at your
- disposal, so may run:
+ disposal, so may run:
print $wohoo->translate("This is a test");
print $wohoo->ngettext("%d bird", "%d birds", $birds);
You might need to pass parameter "-k" to xgettext to make it
- extract all the strings. In above example, try with
+ extract all the strings. In above example, try with
xgettext -ktranslate -kngettext:1,2 file.php
what should create messages.po which contains two messages for
translation.
Usage with gettext.inc (standard gettext interfaces emulation)
- Check example in examples/pig_dropin.php, basically you include
- gettext.inc and use all the standard gettext interfaces as
+ Check example in examples/pig_dropin.php, basically you include
+ gettext.inc and use all the standard gettext interfaces as
documented on:
http://www.php.net/gettext
There is also simple "update" script that can be used to generate
POT file and to update the translation using msgmerge.
-Interesting TODO:
+TODO:
- o Try to parse "plural-forms" header field, and to follow C syntax
- rules. This won't be easy.
+ o Improve speed to be even more comparable to the native gettext
+ implementation.
-Boring TODO:
-
- o Learn PHP and fix bugs, slowness and other stuff resulting from
- my lack of knowledge (but *maybe*, it's not my knowledge that is
- bad, but PHP itself ;-).
-
- (This is mostly done thanks to Nico Kaiser.)
-
- o Try to use hash tables in MO files: with pre-loading, would it
+ o Try to use hash tables in MO files: with pre-loading, would it
be useful at all?
Never-asked-questions:
Well, it's quite simple. I consider that the first released thing
should be labeled "version 1" (first, right?). Zero is there to
- indicate that there's zero improvement and/or change compared to
+ indicate that there's zero improvement and/or change compared to
"version 1".
I plan to use version numbers 1.0.* for small bugfixes, and to
Mozart's 40th Symphony (there is one like that, right?).
o Can I...?
-
+
Yes, you can. This is free software (as in freedom, free speech),
and you might do whatever you wish with it, provided you do not
limit freedom of others (GPL).
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