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Provided that your user account on the server has the privileges to access crontab thus can create or remove cron jobs, you can use this PHP class to integrate crontab in your application. I created it for many of my own projects that need crontab to do scheduled jobs. It’s pretty straightforward.
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I created a simple web page to compare the performance of various localization methods for PHP. It only contains 3 localized strings and does not use advanced features of gettext (e.g. plurals). I wrote a version using the gettext PHP extension (“gettext Ext.”), one using PHP-gettext (“gettext PHP”, a gettext implementation written in pure PHP) and a version that does not use gettext at all, instead it uses an array that contains all the translations (“String ID”).
First, check that it isn’t actually working for you, and you don’t notice. I’ve done this…convinced it’s not working I wasted a chunk of time trying to get it to work, only to find that everything was OK.
With ‘upgrade.php‘ on-hand, you can use many features from newer PHP versions (up to 5.3/5.4 currently) without losing compatibility to older interpreters and outdated webserver setups. It takes care of emulating any functions (with their original names) that are missing at runtime.
The following is a list of Country/Region strings recognized by setlocale. Strings for countries/regions that are not supported by the operating system are not accepted by setlocale. Three-letter Country/Region-name codes are from the International Organization for Standardization and International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) specification 3166.
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Converts gettext translation ‘.po’ files to binary ‘.mo’ files in PHP.