An easy-to-use localization library for PHP

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Transcribe is an easy-to-use localization library for PHP. The localization source can be file-based (similar to Laravel's Localization) or from a database connection.

Installation

Install Transcribe through Composer:

$ composer require rougin/transcribe

Basic Usage

Load a list of texts from a directory

locales/fil_PH.php

$texts = array();

$texts['language'] = 'linguahe';
$texts['name'] = 'pangalan';
$texts['school'] = 'paaralan';

return $texts;

use Rougin\Transcribe\Source\DirectorySource;
use Rougin\Transcribe\Transcribe;

$source = new DirectorySource(__DIR__ . '/locales');

$transcribe = new Transcribe($source);

Load a list of texts from a database

The contents of the words table:

use Rougin\Transcribe\Source\DirectorySource;
use Rougin\Transcribe\Transcribe;

$pdo = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=demo', 'root', '');

$table = array('name' => 'words');

$table['language'] = 'language';
$table['text'] = 'text';
$table['translation'] = 'translation';

$source = new DatabaseSource($pdo, $table);

$transcribe = new Transcribe($source);

Must-have properties of $table

• name - name of the database table
• language - language name based from a locale (e.g en_GB)
• text - a keyword or a text to be translated
• translation - translation from the based language

Load list of texts from different sources

use Rougin\Transcribe\Source\DatabaseSource;
use Rougin\Transcribe\Source\DirectorySource;
use Rougin\Transcribe\Source\SourceCollection;
use Rougin\Transcribe\Transcribe;

$collection = new SourceCollection;

// "$database" is a DatabaseSource instance
// while "$directory" is a DirectorySource.
$collection->add($database)->add($directory);

$transcribe = new Transcribe($collection);

Getting a text from the vocabulary

// Returns all stored texts
$texts = $transcribe->all();

// Returns translation of 'name' in 'fil_PH' group (e.g "pangalan")
$text = $transcribe->get('fil_PH.name');

Adding new source

Just implement it to a SourceInterface.

namespace Rougin\Transcribe\Source;

interface SourceInterface
{
    /**
     * Returns an array of words.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function words();
}