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Yii Translator gettext Message Storage

The package provides message storage backend based on gettext file format to be used with yiisoft/translator package.

Requirements

• PHP 8.0 or higher.
• gettext PHP extension.

Installation

The package could be installed with Composer:

composer require yiisoft/translator-message-gettext

Attention

When using gettext, locale depends on your OS requirement:

• for Windows 'locale' => 'en-US.UTF-8'
• for Linux 'locale' => 'en_US.UTF-8'

General usage

The package is meant to be used with yiisoft/translator:

use Yiisoft\Translator\CategorySource;
use Yiisoft\Translator\Message\Gettext\MessageSource;

$categorySource = new CategorySource(
    'my-category',
    new MessageSource('/path/to/messages'),
);

The examples below are about using it separately.

Create of instance of MessageSource

/** @var string $path - path to your gettext storage */
$messageSource = new \Yiisoft\Translator\Message\Gettext\MessageSource($path);

Read message without yiisoft/translator package

/** 
 * @var \Yiisoft\Translator\Message\Gettext\MessageSource $messageSource
 * @var ?string $translatedString
 */
$id = 'messageIdentificator';
$category = 'messages';
$language = 'de-DE';

$translatedString = $messageSource->getMessage($id, $category, $language);

You can create your translations in .mo format with use third-party software (for example Poedit)

Recommended structure to your gettext storage:

-- path_to_your_storage
  -- de_DE
    -- LC_MESSAGES
        -- messages.mo

Documentation

• Internals

If you need help or have a question, the Yii Forum is a good place for that. You may also check out other Yii Community Resources.

License

The Yii Translator gettext Message Storage is free software. It is released under the terms of the BSD License. Please see LICENSE for more information.

Maintained by Yii Software.

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