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webtrendi/lexiconic
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Utility and classes to facilitate gettext style translations in PHP

v1.0.0(12y ago)257MITPHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since Apr 14Pushed 11y ago2 watchersCompare

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Lexiconic
=========

[](#lexiconic)

Utility and classes to facilitate gettext style translations in PHP

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Example file simple.php:

```
/* detect current language */
if (isset($_GET['locale'])) {
    $locale = $_GET['locale'];
} else {
    $locale = 'en_CA';
} //if

/* setup environment */
putenv("LANG=" . $locale);
putenv("LANGUAGE=" . $locale);
setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale);

/* setup extractor */
$extractor = new \Lexiconic\Extractor\GettextExtractor('application', __DIR__ .'/locale/');

/* get term functions */
$_ = $extractor->getTermFunction();

/* Use string extractor function */
echo $_('Ok this is simple enough'), PHP_EOL;
```

To scan files for terms you would run something like:

```
xgettext --language=PHP \\
  --keyword=_:1 --keyword=_:1,2c \\
  --keyword=_n:1,2 --keyword=_n:1,2,4c \\
  --output=./locale/simple.po  ./simple.php
```

Features
--------

[](#features)

- Supports context in strings
- Abstracts the gettex library to support other methods
- Does not invade global scope

To Do
-----

[](#to-do)

- scripts to extract strings
- scripts to generate mo
- classes to manipulate po files
- implement other extractors
- unit tests
- more examples

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

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.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4411d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/792553?v=4)[Patrick Forget](/maintainers/patforg)[@patforg](https://github.com/patforg)

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Top Contributors

[![patforg](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/792553?v=4)](https://github.com/patforg "patforg (13 commits)")

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Tags

localizationinternationalizationtranslationgettext

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