Render Services supporting translations for the User Interface for PHP applications using Adapters for different implementation types (ex., Database, *.ini files, etc.).
- PHP 5.3.3, or above
- PSR-0 compliant Autoloader
- PHP Framework independent
- [optional] PHPUnit 3.5+ to execute the test suite (phpunit --version)
Render strings are loaded in startup for language determined in this order (and installed):
- Injected value during class instantiation
- Session
- User Data
- Client Render
- Application Configuration
- Defaults to en-GB
To instantiate the Render Class:
$language = new Render($language);
Once instantiated, all calls to the class can be made using the $language instance.
To retrieve the key value (ex. 'en-GB') for the language which is loaded:
$language->get('language');
To retrieve all language strings and translations for the loaded language:
$language->get('strings');
To retrieve a list of all languages installed in this application:
$language->get('installed');
To retrieve a registry attribute value (id, name, rtl, local, first_day) for the loaded language:
$language->get('name-of-attribute');
To retrieve all registry attribute values as an array for the loaded language:
$language->get('registry');
To translate the string $xyz:
$language->translate($xyz);
To retrieve a list of language strings and translations matching a wildcard value:
$language->translate($xyz, 1);
To insert strings found in code but are not already in database:
- If an administrator is logged on, the primary language services automatically insert untranslated strings
- To avoid doing so, override the
RenderPlugin
and setinsert_missing_strings
to0
- For instances you define, set the
insert_missing_strings
, as needed.
To log strings found in code, but are not already in database:
- Set the Application configuration option
profile_missing_strings
to1
and turn onprofiling