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phellow/gettext
===============

Gettext translator for intl and some other useful gettext stuff

1.0.1(11y ago)031MITPHP

Since Dec 13Pushed 11y ago1 watchersCompare

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Install via Composer
--------------------

[](#install-via-composer)

Add the following dependency to your project's *composer.json* file:

```
{
    "require": {
        "phellow/gettext": "1.*"
    }
}
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

To translate texts via gettext, you have to set the translator first:

```
$translator = new \Phellow\Gettext\GettextTranslator('path/to/locales', 'gettextDomain');

$intl = new \Phellow\Intl\IntlService('en_US');
$intl->setTranslator($translator);

$text = $intl->_('translate this');
$text = $intl->_n('one', 'more', 2);
```

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT license.

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 47% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

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 ~17 days

Total

2

Last Release

4202d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/864455?v=4)[Christian Blos](/maintainers/christianblos)[@christianblos](https://github.com/christianblos)

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Top Contributors

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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.

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