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JLanguage

Methods

Visibility	Method name	Description
public	_	Translate function, mimics the php gettext (alias _) function.
public	__construct	Constructor activating the default information of the language.
public	get	Get a metadata language property.
public	getDebug	Get the Debug property.
public	getDefault	Get the default language code.
public	getErrorFiles	Get a list of language files that are in error state.
public	getFirstDay	Get the first day of the week for this language.
public	getIgnoredSearchWords	getIgnoredSearchWords function
public	getIgnoredSearchWordsCallback	Getter for ignoredSearchWordsCallback function.
public	getLocale	Get the language locale based on current language.
public	getLowerLimitSearchWord	getLowerLimitSearchWord function
public	getLowerLimitSearchWordCallback	Getter for lowerLimitSearchWordCallback function.
public	getName	Getter for Name.
public	getOrphans	Get the list of orphaned strings if being tracked.
public	getPaths	Get a list of language files that have been loaded.
public	getPluralSufficesCallback	Getter for pluralSuffixesCallback function.
public	getPluralSuffixes	pluralSuffixes function
public	getPluralSuffixesCallback	Getter for pluralSuffixesCallback function.
public	getSearchDisplayedCharactersNumber	getSearchDisplayedCharactersNumber function
public	getSearchDisplayedCharactersNumberCallback	Getter for searchDisplayedCharactersNumberCallback function.
public	getTag	Getter for the language tag (as defined in RFC 3066).
public	getTransliterator	Getter for transliteration function.
public	getUpperLimitSearchWord	getUpperLimitSearchWord function
public	getUpperLimitSearchWordCallback	Getter for upperLimitSearchWordCallback function.
public	getUsed	Get the list of used strings.
public	hasKey	Determines is a key exists.
public	isRTL	Get the RTL property.
public	load	Loads a single language file and appends the results to the existing strings.
public	setDebug	Set the Debug property.
public	setDefault	Set the default language code.
public	setIgnoredSearchWordsCallback	Setter for the ignoredSearchWordsCallback function.
public	setLanguage	Set the language attributes to the given language.
public	setLowerLimitSearchWordCallback	Setter for the lowerLimitSearchWordCallback function.
public	setPluralSuffixesCallback	Set the pluralSuffixes function.
public	setSearchDisplayedCharactersNumberCallback	Setter for the searchDisplayedCharactersNumberCallback function.
public	setTransliterator	Set the transliteration function.
public	setUpperLimitSearchWordCallback	Setter for the upperLimitSearchWordCallback function.
public	transliterate	Transliterate function.
public static	_parseLanguageFiles	Searches for language directories within a certain base dir.
public static	_parseXMLLanguageFile	Parse XML file for language information.
public static	_parseXMLLanguageFiles	Parses XML files for language information.
public static	exists	Check if a language exists.
public static	getInstance	Returns a language object.
public static	getKnownLanguages	Returns a list of known languages for an area.
public static	getLanguagePath	Get the path to a language.
public static	getMetadata	Returns a associative array holding the metadata.
public static	parseLanguageFiles	Searches for language directories within a certain base dir.
public static	parseXMLLanguageFile	Parse XML file for language information.
public static	parseXMLLanguageFiles	Parses XML files for language information.
protected	getCallerInfo	Determine who called or .
protected	loadLanguage	Loads a language file.
protected	parse	Parses a language file.

• Defined in libraries/joomla/language/language.php
• Extends JObject

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.language.language' );

See also

• JLanguage source code on BitBucket
• Subpackage Language
• Other versions of JLanguage