Pybabel or other l10n libraries for PHP

Question

Babel or pybabel is an interface to CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) in Python. Thus, it has the same “knowledge” as the PHP i18n functions and classes (if the corresponding locales are installed on the host), but without the hassle of using the parameters of the entire system, such as setlocale() .

Is there a similar library or toolkit for PHP? Especially to achieve:

• Convert numbers to format and language for a specific language and region

• also converts dates

• access to names, monetary and other information in a specific locale (for example,

   >>> from babel import Locale >>> locale = Locale('en', 'US') >>> locale.territories['US'] u'United States' >>> locale = Locale('es', 'MX') >>> locale.territories['US'] u'Estados Unidos' 

Answer 1

PHP 5.3 comes with an intl extension:

The internationalization extension (hereinafter referred to as Intl) is a wrapper for the ICU library, allowing PHP programmers to perform UCA-compatible sorting and date / time / number / currency formatting in their scripts.

• Converting numbers is possible using the NumberFormatter class:

   $fmt = new NumberFormatter("de_DE", NumberFormatter::DECIMAL); echo $fmt->format(1234567.891234567890000); 

• Date conversion is possible using the IntlDateFormatter class:

   $fmt = new IntlDateFormatter("en_US", IntlDateFormatter::FULL, IntlDateFormatter::FULL, 'America/Los_Angeles', IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN); echo $fmt->format(0); 

• Access to names, monetary and other information in a specific locale is possible using the Locale class:

   echo Locale::getRegion('de-CH-1901'); 

In addition, there are Collation and MessageFormatter classes.