Most efficient way to do language file in PHP?

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I really want to provide a few alternative languages other then English on my social network s

Answer 1

Unfortunately gettext not work good and have problems in various situation like on different OS (Windows or Linux) and make it work is very difficult.

In addition it require you set lot's of environment variables and domains and this not have any sense.

If a developer want simply get the translation of a text he should only set the .mo file path and get the translation with one function like translate("hello","en_EN"); With gettext this is not possible.