PHP and JavaScript internationalization

PHP and JavaScript internationalization

These days I�ve been working on a PHP/JavaScript project which needed to be translated from English into other languages. I made a search and the results were pretty disappointing. All the solutions I�ve came across were either too complicated, too heavy or too messy. I wanted something more hygienic, that could be easily integrated into any project, so I ended up writing my own.

Basically, all you have to do is add a subdirectory called �i18n� (or any other name you want) and copy the �i18n.php� file there, then create a file to each language you need. One of those language files will be your default � probably the English one �, where the strings will also serve as the mapping keys. The other language files will simply have all the lines, one by one, translated.

Once the �i18n.php� file is included into your PHP script, you�ll have to set up the translation by calling i18n_set_map(), choosing the source (the default) language file, and the target language. And it�s done. Every string passed to the I() function will be translated, both in PHP and JavaScript.

There is a comprehensive example on the GitHub repository, where I published everything under the MIT license, in the hope that it can be useful to someone else. The repository is at github.com/rodrigocfd/php-js-i18n.

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