Question

I save my translated messages into a php file and inside a

define("TEXT", "text");

The thing is when i have a text that shows:

We have 30 users online.

and a user translates this message to his own language how am I supposed to show the users online when I get the translated text from the define variable?

For example, if the user translates the text to We have % users online.

Then I have in the php language file this:

define("USERS_ONLINE", "We have % users online");

Should I break the string and replace % with my total online users variable? Should I do the same with even more variables if needed?

Answer 1

I would recommend you to use printf-like syntax instead:

define("USERS_ONLINE", "We have %s users online");
echo sprintf(USERS_ONLINE, 30);

Then you can have multiple variables in the string:

define("USERS_ONLINE", "We have %s users online since %s");
echo sprintf(USERS_ONLINE, 30, $date);