Most of my time I work with PHP, Java, JSF and Ruby on Rails. I am used to work with i18n or l10n in a specific way. Actually I am working on an Project in PHP and I need internationalization in it.
In the world of PHP the most widely spread method of working with multiple languages is the gettext-Method. But for me it doesn't make sense to provide a text, instead I like to work with keys like in rails or java.
So I quickly wrote my own i18n-class. Actually it is a very light solution, but the main point is: It works! ;-)
require_once('i18n/i18n.php');
$i18n = new i18n();
$i18n->setDirectory(dirname(__FILE__).'/locale')->setLang('en');
$i18n->getTranslation('test.key');
If you don't provide the directory it looks in i18n/locale/. In the directory you need to place an ini-file per language you want to support. In this example the en.ini looks like: test.key = this is a test And the de.ini looks like this: test.key = Das ist ein Test
Have fun! :-)
v0.0.1 - initial import
v0.0.2 - support for country codes
If you want to contribute, just fork the project, make your changes and send me a pull request.
Copyright © 2010 Sascha Wessel. See LICENSE for details.