PHP Localization Best Practices? gettext?

Question

We are in the process of making our website international, allowing multiple languages.

I\'ve looked into php\'s \"gettext\" however, if I understand it right, I see

Answer 1

Currently, I am dealing with the same issue. The common practice with gettext is to use the English text as the key. Recently, our copy editor changed whole bunch of English text (other languages are hardly touched) so we have to change all the source code all the PO files.

We are switching to a neutral key. Since we already have some sites on Java. We will use the same property name format.