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crodas/intl
===========

easy internationalization support for PHP

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crodas/intl
===========

[](#crodasintl)

Easy internationalization support for PHP

It aims to be a drop-in replacement for `gettext`.

Setup
-----

[](#setup)

It can be installed with composer

```
composer require crodas/intl:dev-master
```

Concepts
--------

[](#concepts)

`crodas/intl` at run time provides a few functions (`__`, `_e` and `_` *if gettext in not installed*) to translate text. It also provides a **generator** that walks throughtout the project and extract *all* texts it can find and generates a `template` file.

That `template` needs to be copied in order to create new `locales` or `languages`. You can run this process as many time as you'd like, the `template` file and *all* `locale` files are going to be updated (but we never override its content).

Whenever you update your locale files you would need to **compile** it in order to load efficiently from your PHP app.

TODO: *add demos*

Using
-----

[](#using)

In order to use `crodas/intl`, it needs to be initialized as follows:

```
require "vendor/autoload.php";

crodas\Intl::init("/tmp/language.php", $locale);
```

It takes two arguments, the first is the compiled locale and the second is the language to use.

It is possible to switch to another locale at any time by doing:

```
crodas\Intl::setLanguage($locale);
```

Then you can call to `__("Hello")` and `__("Hello %s, welcome")`, they will be replaced with the correct locale or the default content will be print if we can't the locale file or the sentence to translate, pretty much like `gettext` works.

###  Health Score

22

—

LowBetter than 22% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

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