ilib-loctool-php-resource

ilib-loctool-php-resource is a plugin for the loctool that allows it to output resources in PHP format. The output is essentially a PHP file that contains a single associative array that maps resource keys to their values.

Configuration

The plugin recognizes the following configuration parameters in the project.json file:

• sourceLocale: The locale of the source strings. This is the locale that the strings in the source files are assumed to be in. The default is "en-US".
• template: The default path template to use when generating the output file name if the source file mapping does not specify it. The default value for this default is resource-files/Translation[locale].php but you can set it here for any file types that do not set it on their own. See the documentation of the loctool itself for more information about path template syntax.

Example project.json configuration snippet where strings are extracted from tmpl files and the localized resources are output to PHP files:

{
    "settings": {
        "locales": [
            "en-US",
            "fr-FR"
        ],
        "resourceFileTypes" : {
            "php" : "ilib-loctool-php-resource"
        },
        "template": {
            "mappings": {
                "admin/**/*.tmpl": {
                    "sourceLocale": "en-US",
                    "template": "localized/Template[locale].php"
                },
                "src/**/*.tmpl": {
                    "sourceLocale": "en-US"
                }
            }
        }
        "php": {
            "sourceLocale": "en-US",
        }
    }
}

The resourceFileTypes property maps datatypes to loctool plugins. This registers the named plugin as the resource file type for resources from your source that have that datatype. For example, let's say we use a made up datatype of "template" which represents a UI written in some templating language. If you are extracting resources from template .tmpl files, you would use "template" as the source file data type and map that to "ilib-loctool-php-resource" to output the results to php resource files. See the loctool plugin you are using to parse your project's source files to find out what the source file data type is.

Note that the template property can be specified in the mapping for your source files (as shown above), or globally for the whole project in the settings.php.template property. If specified in both places, the mapping property takes precedence. Note that most of the time you will want to specify the template in the mapping property because the source file plugin will already have a default template that may be inappropriate for your resources and its default template overrides the one specified in the settings.php.template property.

In the example above, the strings extracted from admin/**/*.tmpl files will be output to localized/Template[locale].php as per the mapping, and the strings extracted from src/**/*.tmpl files will be output to localized/Lang[locale].php as per the global setting in the php property. If the template is not specified in either location, the default template will be used which is resource-files/Translation[locale].php.

Release Notes

See the change log for details on changes between releases.

License

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