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Helper class to set up the text translation domain and other settings for gettext translations

• Class name: Translation
• Namespace: Mireiawen\Translation

Requirements

• Intl extension
• PHP 7

Installation

You can clone or download the code from the GitHub repository or you can use composer: composer require mireiawen/translation

Methods

__construct

Translation::__construct(string $path, string $default_language, string $domain, string $codeset = 'UTF-8')

Set up the translation and try to detect the user settings

Arguments

• string $path - The filesystem path to the translations
• string $default_language - The default language to use, if none can be determined
• string $domain - The text domain to bind to
• string $codeset - The character set to use with the translation file

Exceptions thrown

\Exception

• In case the extension is missing
• In case the translation folder does not exist
• In case the language cannot be determined

GetLanguage

Translation::GetLanguage()

Get the user's currently selected language

Return value

• string - The current language code

TranslateTo

Translation::TranslateTo(string $language, string $domain, string $codeset = 'UTF-8')

Set up the environment to load the correct translation file for the chosen language

Arguments

• string $language - The language to load
• string $domain - The text domain to bind to
• string $codeset - The character set to use with the translation file

Exceptions thrown

\Exception

• In case the language is empty