NYCPHP Meetup

[John Campbell]

> I have no idea what a singleton pattern is.

It is worth your time to google search for "singleton pattern php" and
do some reading.  I don't mean to sound smug by sending you to google,
but others can explain it much better than I can.

> That is something that I would have considered if going ahead with my now
> shattered plan.

I am glad I have shattered you plan, because I went down the road you
were headed and hit a brick wall.  I wasted dozens of hours instead of
intelligently posting to a list.
I now know:
- i18n is a hard problem.
- it has already been solved
- gettext is the free solution
- gettext works well as an afterthought to an already existing application.

The caveat is that gettext is "As simple as possible, but not
simpler".  My advice is to spend a day reading he man pages for
"msgfmt", "msgmerge", and "msgfmt"  and reading php.net/gettext.

Regards,
John Campbell