<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >gettext</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Gettext" HREF="ref.gettext.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="dngettext" HREF="function.dngettext.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="ngettext" HREF="function.ngettext.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.dngettext.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.ngettext.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.gettext" ></A >gettext</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN29578" ></A ><P > (PHP 3>= 3.0.7, PHP 4 )</P >gettext -- Lookup a message in the current domain</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN29581" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >gettext</B > ( string message)<BR ></BR ><P > This function returns a translated string if one is found in the translation table, or the submitted message if not found. You may use the underscore character '_' as an alias to this function. </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN29590" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >gettext()</B >-check</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" ><?php // Set language to German setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de'); // Specify location of translation tables bindtextdomain("myPHPApp", "./locale"); // Choose domain textdomain("myPHPApp"); // Print a test message print gettext("Welcome to My PHP Application"); // Or use the alias _() for gettext() print _("Have a nice day"); ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.dngettext.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.ngettext.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >dngettext</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.gettext.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >ngettext</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >