Babelfish

Babelfish is a lightweight string registry package. It allows you to use string aliases in your codebase instead of using the actual strings. This makes it much easier to find and edit the strings themselves.

In addition to that, if you're using Blade templates, you don't have to worry about gettext / poedit / wpml not being able to parse your templates properly.

Installation

composer require codelight/babelfish ^1.0

Usage

In your functions.php:

<?php

load_theme_textdomain('your_text_domain', get_stylesheet_directory());

// Register aliases and corresponding strings:
babelfish()->register([
    'button.payment' => __('Complete payment',     'your_text_domain'),
    'button.cta'     => __('Buy now for only %s!', 'your_text_domain'),
]);

However, I recommend creating a separate file, e.g. translations.php which contains everything related to translations.

To get the translations:

<button>
  <?php echo _t('button.payment'); // Complete payment! ?>
</button>
<button>
  <?php echo _t('button.cta', '$420.69'); // Buy now for only $420.69!  ?>
</button>

As you can see from the above example, the translation function also supports sprintf-style variable substitution. You can use any number of variables in your _t() function.

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