Zend-Translate-JSON-Adapter

A JSON Adapter for the Zend Translate Module

Allows the use of JSON resource files. Example:

{
  "app": {
    "name": "MY AWSOME APP",
    "version": "1.0"
  },
  "errors": {
    "not_found": "Not found",
    "network_error": "Network error",
    "fatal": {
        "search": "Search Error Nr. __1__ : __2__"
    }
  }
}

You can access the translations hierarchical e.g. $translate->_("app.name")

Simply pass parameters, no need for sprintf, e.g. $translate->_("app.error.fatal.search", $errorNumber, $errorDescription)

Initialisation

You can simply put the file into the Zend/Translate directory to initialise it like the other adapters:

$translate = new Zend_Translate(
    array(
        'adapter' => 'Json',
        'content' => 'translations/de.json',
        'locale'  => 'de'
    )
);

or follow the Zend Translate Guidelines on integrating self written adapters.

Motivation

I primarly wrote this adapter to use the same translation resource files for Javascript/JQuery and PHP. I use i18next for translation in Javascript in conjunction with i18next Webtranslate