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kelvinmo/simplei18n
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An simple internationalization library for PHP, based on Gettext files.

v1.0.0(5y ago)0376BSD-3-ClausePHPPHP ^5.4 || ^7.0

Since Dec 31Pushed 4y ago1 watchersCompare

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⚠️ **IMPORTANT NOTICE - This library is no longer being maintained. Please use the [PHP Gettext library](https://github.com/php-gettext/Gettext) as an alternative.** ⚠️

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SimpleI18N
==========

[](#simplei18n)

SimpleI18N is a simple internationalization library written in PHP.

SimpleI18N uses Gettext mo files to store translated strings. However, it only offers a subset of the full capabilities of the Gettext library.

In particular:

- categories are not supported
- .mo files are assumed to be encoded in the same character set as your application - if you are not using UTF-8 you will need to convert the character set manually

License
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[](#license)

BSD 3 clause

###  Health Score

28

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LowBetter than 52% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity61

Established project with proven stability

 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.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~792 days

Total

4

Last Release

1825d ago

Major Versions

v0.2.0 → v1.0.02021-07-04

PHP version history (3 changes)v0.1.0PHP >=5.3.0

v0.2.0PHP >=5.4.0

v1.0.0PHP ^5.4 || ^7.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/467c1767396cee916f7dfb3a04f0dcef1714b72940a27fee0b58f96a8aa3b608?d=identicon)[kelvinmo](/maintainers/kelvinmo)

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Top Contributors

[![kelvinmo](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1594601?v=4)](https://github.com/kelvinmo "kelvinmo (21 commits)")

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Tags

gettextphp

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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###  Alternatives

[smmoosavi/php-gettext

Wrapper for php-gettext by danilo segan. This library provides PHP functions to read MO files even when gettext is not compiled in or when appropriate locale is not present on the system.

1927.0k1](/packages/smmoosavi-php-gettext)

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