Since several years ago we've been using php-gettext in phpMyAdmin, but it's about time to change it. The change will not be that big, we're just moving to own fork of that library :-).
You probably ask why to fork? You will probably guess it easily, but to name some reasons:
- The php-gettext library is not maintained anymore
- It doesn't work with recent PHP version (phpMyAdmin has patched version)
- It's not possible to install it using Composer
- There was place for performance improvements in the library
So I've taken existing php-gettext codebase and turned that into motranslator and now 0.1 release of it is out. The recommended way to install it is from Packagist and it has no additional dependencies.
What changes you can expect? First of all it supports all current PHP versions. It also performs way better - in my tests loading of mo file is 4-5 times faster and memory consumption went down about 10 percent. You can additionally use object API instead of traditional function based.
On the other side some features we don't need were removed - there is no support for using native Gettext, it doesn't do any encoding conversion (assuming that UTF-8 is on both sides these days) and it doesn't support delayed loading of messages. The last change means that it's not suitable for applications with huge MO files.
Any feedback is welcome, the code is still fresh and probably needs some polishing.
