PHP internationalization with intl

Asked Feb 11 '14 at 11:24

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I'm looking for a good way to internationalize an PHP application. My conclusions so far, is that I'll not use gettext (keeps failing randomly, bad implementation of cache with lighttpd I guess) and Zend is not a option to me.

I'm very interested in the PHP internationalization functions introduced in PHP 5.3. But I'm not so sure if it's the tool for the job. I didn't find any article about using this guys for app localization, but it seems that a BundleResource is exactly what I want.

Can someone here confirm with it's the way to go and how to organize/create/populate/use a resource bundle? The official documentation is too superficial (eg ResourceBundle::create) or I'm missing something here.

Otherwise, I'll use arrays as a last resort. aargh!

edited Feb 11 '14 at 11:27

Álvaro González

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There're some gettext clones in pure PHP that work on top of regular PO catalogues. You can at least take benefit from tools like Poedit. – Álvaro González Feb 11 '14 at 11:30
Have you been through this documentation? http://userguide.icu-project.org/ – edmondscommerce Feb 11 '14 at 11:30
@ÁlvaroG.Vicario None of these tools seemd "mature" enough. So I didn't even tried. Do you recommend some? – cvsguimaraes Feb 11 '14 at 11:31
@edmondscommerce So `intl` comes from this? It seems quite challenging to learn it all and don't to much time to spare, unfortunately. – cvsguimaraes Feb 11 '14 at 11:37
@ÁlvaroG.Vicario Please, I'm desperate... – cvsguimaraes Feb 11 '14 at 12:38
I really have nothing else to say, thus my lack of further comments. Certainly, none of those PHP third-party libraries are mature (most are not even maintained). I've only used them as fallback for PHP set-ups where gettext will refuse working. I've never used ICU either. – Álvaro González Feb 11 '14 at 12:43
@ÁlvaroG.Vicario Ok, I understand. Damn you PHP!111 – cvsguimaraes Feb 11 '14 at 13:00

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