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richarddobron/fbt
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An Internationalization Framework for PHP.

4.3.4(2w ago)1517.7k↑315.6%2MITPHPPHP ^7.2 || ^8.0CI passing

Since Feb 18Pushed 2w ago1 watchersCompare

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 [![FBT](icon.png)](icon.png)
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[](#--)

FBT for PHP
===========

[](#fbt-for-php)

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FBT is an internationalization framework for PHP designed to be not just **powerful** and **flexible**, but also **simple** and **intuitive**. It helps with the following:

- Organizing your source text for translation
- Composing grammatically correct translatable UI
- Eliminating verbose boilerplate for generating UI

**This library is based on the JavaScript implementation of Facebook's [FBT](https://github.com/facebook/fbt).**

[![FBT intro](docs/intro.png)](docs/intro.png)

[![FBT plurals](docs/plurals.png)](docs/plurals.png)

[![FBT enum](docs/enum.png)](docs/enum.png)

[![FBT pronouns](docs/pronouns.png)](docs/pronouns.png)

📖 Requirements
--------------

[](#-requirements)

- PHP 7.0 or higher
- [Composer](https://getcomposer.org) is required for installation

📦 Installing
------------

[](#-installing)

```
$ composer require richarddobron/fbt:^4
```

✨ Features
----------

[](#-features)

- Parameters and interpolation
- Implicit parameters
- Auto-parameterization
- Plurals
- Enumerations
- Pronouns
- Number formatting
- Phrase extracting
- Inline translating

🚀 Getting started
-----------------

[](#-getting-started)

See the [Getting Started](docs/getting_started.md) guide for more.

📑 Version Guidance
------------------

[](#-version-guidance)

VersionReleasedStatusRepoPHP Version3.x2022-02-18Maintained[v3](https://github.com/richarddobron/fbt/tree/3.x)>= 7.04.x2022-04-09Latest[v4](https://github.com/richarddobron/fbt)>= 7.2🔌 Official integrations
-----------------------

[](#-official-integrations)

The following integrations are fully supported and maintained:

- [Laravel](https://github.com/richardDobron/laravel-fbt)

⚙️ How FBT works
----------------

[](#️-how-fbt-works)

FBT works by transforming your `` and `fbt(...)` constructs via [DOM Forge](https://github.com/richardDobron/dom-forge). It serves to extract strings from source and lookup translated payloads generated during execution. FBT creates tables of all possible variations for each fbt phrase and accesses them at runtime.

📕 Full documentation
--------------------

[](#-full-documentation)

- [API Reference](https://richarddobron.github.io/fbt/)

✅ TODO
------

[](#-todo)

- Add driver-agnostic support for multiple database systems.
- Add integrations for Symfony, CakePHP, Zend Framework, ...
- ...

🤝 Contributing
--------------

[](#-contributing)

Please see [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.

📜 License
---------

[](#-license)

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.

###  Health Score

57

—

FairBetter than 98% of packages

Maintenance96

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity34

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity68

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 ~29 days

Recently: every ~121 days

Total

56

Last Release

20d ago

Major Versions

3.2.9 → 4.3.02024-12-14

3.3.0 → 4.3.12025-01-12

3.3.1 → 4.3.22025-02-16

3.3.2 → 4.3.32025-04-15

3.x-dev → 4.3.42026-06-14

PHP version history (2 changes)3.0PHP ^7.0

4.0PHP ^7.2 || ^8.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/82453617?v=4)[dobron](/maintainers/dobron)[@DOBRON](https://github.com/DOBRON)

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Top Contributors

[![richardDobron](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/33115305?v=4)](https://github.com/richardDobron "richardDobron (140 commits)")

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Tags

frameworki18ninternationalizationintlphptranslationsphpframeworkinternationalizationi18ntranslations

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Code StylePHP CS Fixer

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