<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Plural version of gettext</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.gettext.html">gettext</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.textdomain.html">textdomain</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.gettext.html">Gettext Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="function.ngettext" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">ngettext</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5, PHP 7)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">ngettext</span> — <span class="dc-title">Plural version of gettext</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.ngettext-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>ngettext</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$msgid1</code></span> , <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$msgid2</code></span> , <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$n</code></span> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> The plural version of <span class="function"><a href="function.gettext.html" class="function">gettext()</a></span>. Some languages have more than one form for plural messages dependent on the count. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.ngettext-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <code class="parameter">msgid1</code></dt> <dd> <p class="para"> The singular message ID. </p> </dd> <dt> <code class="parameter">msgid2</code></dt> <dd> <p class="para"> The plural message ID. </p> </dd> <dt> <code class="parameter">n</code></dt> <dd> <p class="para"> The number (e.g. item count) to determine the translation for the respective grammatical number. </p> </dd> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.ngettext-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns correct plural form of message identified by <code class="parameter">msgid1</code> and <code class="parameter">msgid2</code> for count <code class="parameter">n</code>. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.ngettext-examples"> <h3 class="title">Examples</h3> <p class="para"> <div class="example" id="example-2976"> <p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>ngettext()</strong></span> example</strong></p> <div class="example-contents"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br />setlocale</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">LC_ALL</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'cs_CZ'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">printf</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">ngettext</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"%d window"</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"%d windows"</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">1</span><span style="color: #007700">), </span><span style="color: #0000BB">1</span><span style="color: #007700">); </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// 1 okno<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">printf</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">ngettext</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"%d window"</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"%d windows"</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">2</span><span style="color: #007700">), </span><span style="color: #0000BB">2</span><span style="color: #007700">); </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// 2 okna<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">printf</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">ngettext</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"%d window"</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"%d windows"</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">5</span><span style="color: #007700">), </span><span style="color: #0000BB">5</span><span style="color: #007700">); </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// 5 oken<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span> </span> </code></div> </div> </div> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.gettext.html">gettext</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.textdomain.html">textdomain</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.gettext.html">Gettext Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>