Small and simple PHP library for translating websites
Toungette is a PHP library used to simplify translating your website. You only need 3 files to make it work, and you still have full control over your translations without any need to create the same page twice, but with different text.
Before you install it, in your composer.json add "minimum-stability": "rc". That's
because there is no version of simplehtmldom that is stable (at least on packagist).
After you did so, use:
composer require oviedev/toungette
You can view documentation here: Documentation
Let's make a simple website with one page.
Setup 3 files. schem.json, index.tounge and index.php.
schem.json is where you define your translations. At the beggining of the file, you need to define schema property.
It's an array of avaible languages.
Next you have the keys object. It stores your translations as arrays. Values of the keys are ordered via schema.
So let's define two keys. key.hello and key.goodbye
{
"schema": ["en", "es", "pl"],
"keys": {
"key.hello": [
"Hello",
"Hola",
"Hej"
],
"key.goodbye": [
"Goodbye",
"Adios",
"Do widzenia"
]
}
}
Let's move to the index.tounge. This is where you define, how your page will look. It's plain html, but you start with the <body> tag, instead of <html>. So our file may look like this:
<body>
<b>{key.hello}</b>
<br />
this text isn't affected by translations
<br />
{key.goodbye}
</body>Notice that our keys are in curly braces.
Now, it's time for our index.php file. This is where the translation magic comes in. It contains every standard tag required for the website (<html> and <head>), excluding <body>
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>My Toungette Page</title>
</head>
<?php
require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
use OvieDev\Toungette\Translator;
$t = new Translator('schem.json', 'index.tounge');
$t->translate();
echo $t->text;
?>
</html>In that <?php tag we create a Translator object and we pass here our schem.json and index.tounge as parameters. Then we call translate() method and we echo it out.
Now go to enter your website's url and add parameter lang=en, lang=es or lang=pl. This should be the result:
Congratulations, you've made your first website with Toungette