Why php gettext is needed in real life?

Posted by howa on June 3, 2008, 1:06 pm

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http://hk2.php.net/manual/en/ref.gettext.php

I just wonder why those kind of translation/mapping can't be
implemented in using plain PHP array?

Howard

Posted by Iván Sánchez on June 3, 2008, 1:23 pm

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IvÃ¡n SÃ¡nchez Ortega wrote:

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Posted by Joe Scylla on June 4, 2008, 2:57 am

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howa wrote:
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First, gettext is faster that a php array

Sencondary, translators can use a gui programm for translation the
string (PoEdit, Eclipse Plugin).

But the main reason is: with gettext you can extract and refresh the
strings need translation out of the source code into your gettext
project file.

Joe

Posted by howa on June 4, 2008, 9:44 am

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On 6$B7n(B4$BF|(B, $B2<8a(B2$B;~(B57$BJ,(B, Joe Scylla
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I agree with points such as GUI tools, but is gettext faster?

PHP array can be cached into memory using APC/XCache and you can even
use them without any method call.

Howard

Posted by Joe Scylla on June 4, 2008, 10:09 am

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howa wrote:
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Well at least in my benchmarking it is (on Suse and Debian). Remember
that gettext caches loaded translation file in memory.

http://mel.melaxis.com/devblog/2006/04/10/benchmarking-php-localization-is-gettext-fast-enough/

It may depend on the gettext-implementation. There is a user posted in
the comments who had better performance with arrays under Windows.

Joe