Best practices for externalizing strings in PHP

Question

I've been surprised by how little I've found on externalizing strings in PHP. Does everyone use gettext, or is there some other framework or tool that I'm not aware of?

Answer 1

Zend_Translate / Zend_Locale are nice and very flexible. They do not need the whole Zend Framework to be present. They support gettext moo/.po files but also CSV and other formats.

Answer 2

Hope this library helps you:

The i18n package is a punch of classes for internationalization. It gives you the possibility to maintain multilanguage webpages more easily. The translation strings are stored in flat text files, special Gettext files which are basically precompiled translation files or in a MySQL database. And it works independently from PHP’s setlocale function.