Question

I have my php gettext default language in English let’s say

I would like in one of my controller, to translate some words in 2 other languages and put them all in an array.

ideally I could do

$word_sv = gettext($word, 'sv_SV');
$word_fi = gettext($word, 'fi_FI');

but it doesn’t exist.

Is the only way to change the overall gettext settings each time?

function setLang($lang){
    putenv("LC_ALL=$lang");
    setlocale(LC_ALL, $lang);
    bindtextdomain("myPHPApp", "./locale");
    textdomain("myPHPApp");
}

setLang('sv_SV');
$word_sv = gettext($word);
setLang('fi_FI');
$word_fi = gettext($word);

related: saw it on Google after : i18n with gettext but without the locale hassle?

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Edit

here are the proposed answered solutions:

• https://github.com/Philipp15b/php-i18n (seems best solution)
• http://glotpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/pomo (could use it if I find a good doc or tuto ;))
• change locale on the fly, probably not good

Answer 1

I know the pains of using gettext, but its performance is what keeps me with it !

In your case, you might want to look at this little project ? i’m pretty sure this might help you !

this simply uses .ini files with translations, you can freely switch between files and echo the different languages for the same word.

https://github.com/Philipp15b/php-i18n