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    MessageFormatter::setPattern

    msgfmt_set_pattern

    (PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PECL intl >= 1.0.0)

    MessageFormatter::setPattern -- msgfmt_set_pattern — Set the pattern used by the formatter

    Description

    Object oriented style

    public bool MessageFormatter::setPattern ( string $pattern )

    Procedural style

    bool msgfmt_set_pattern ( MessageFormatter $fmt , string $pattern )

    Set the pattern used by the formatter

    Parameters

    fmt

    The message formatter

    pattern

    The pattern string to use in this message formatter. The pattern uses an 'apostrophe-friendly' syntax; it is run through » umsg_autoQuoteApostrophe before being interpreted.

    Return Values

    Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

    Examples

    Example #1 msgfmt_set_pattern() example

    <?php
    $fmt     = msgfmt_create( "en_US", "{0, number} monkeys on {1, number} trees" );
    echo     "Default pattern: '" . msgfmt_get_pattern( $fmt ) . "'\n";
    echo     "Formatting result: " . msgfmt_format( $fmt, array(123, 456) ) . "\n";

    msgfmt_set_pattern( $fmt, "{0, number} trees hosting {1, number} monkeys" );
    echo     "New pattern: '" . msgfmt_get_pattern( $fmt ) . "'\n";
    echo     "Formatted number: " . msgfmt_format( $fmt, array(123, 456) ) . "\n";
    ?>

    Example #2 OO example

    <?php
    $fmt     = new MessageFormatter( "en_US", "{0, number} monkeys on {1, number} trees" );
    echo     "Default pattern: '" . $fmt->getPattern() . "'\n";
    echo     "Formatting result: " . $fmt->format(array(123, 456)) . "\n";

    $fmt->setPattern("{0, number} trees hosting {1, number} monkeys" );
    echo     "New pattern: '" . $fmt->getPattern() . "'\n";
    echo     "Formatted number: " . $fmt->format(array(123, 456)) . "\n";
    ?>

    The above example will output:

    Default pattern: '{0,number} monkeys on {1,number} trees'
Formatting result: 123 monkeys on 456 trees
New pattern: '{0,number} trees hosting {1,number} monkeys'
Formatted number: 123 trees hosting 456 monkeys

    See Also

    User Contributed Notes

    neil dot smith at vouchercloud dot com
    1 year ago
    A correct example would be to transpose the placeholders in pattern 2.

    This is typical where changing messages from one language to another changes the word order, to result in a sensible translation.

    Let's imagine it's localised as Spanish or Russian instead of English.
    So really you want to have pattern 2 provided by your human translator to read like this :

    New pattern: '{1,number} trees hosting {0,number} monkeys'
    Formatted number: 456 trees hosting 123 monkeys

    That is - the order of arguments is always the same, but your translated message content has the placeholders transposed for non English languages.
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