function locale

7.x locale.module locale($string = NULL, $context = NULL, $langcode = NULL)
6.x locale.module locale($string = NULL, $langcode = NULL, $reset = FALSE)

Provides interface translation services.

This function is called from t() to translate a string if needed.

Parameters

$string: A string to look up translation for. If omitted, all the cached strings will be returned in all languages already used on the page.

$langcode: Language code to use for the lookup.

$reset: Set to TRUE to reset the in-memory cache.

1 call to locale()
t in drupal-6.x/includes/common.inc
Translate strings to the page language or a given language.
36 string references to 'locale'
drupal_verify_profile in drupal-6.x/includes/install.inc
Verify a profile for installation.
example_profile_modules in documentation-6.x/developer/example.profile
Return an array of the modules to be enabled when this profile is installed.
install_main in drupal-6.x/install.php
The Drupal installation happens in a series of steps. We begin by verifying that the current environment meets our minimum requirements. We then go on to verify that settings.php is properly configured. From there we connect to the configured database…
install_select_locale in drupal-6.x/install.php
Allow admin to select which locale to use for the current profile.
install_select_locale_form in drupal-6.x/install.php
Form API array definition for language selection.

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File

drupal-6.x/modules/locale/locale.module, line 329
Add language handling functionality and enables the translation of the user interface to languages other than English.

Code

function locale($string = NULL, $langcode = NULL, $reset = FALSE) {
  global $language;
  static $locale_t;

  if ($reset) {
    // Reset in-memory cache.
    $locale_t = NULL;
  }

  if (!isset($string)) {
    // Return all cached strings if no string was specified
    return $locale_t;
  }

  $langcode = isset($langcode) ? $langcode : $language->language;

  // Store database cached translations in a static var.
  if (!isset($locale_t[$langcode])) {
    $locale_t[$langcode] = array();
    // Disabling the usage of string caching allows a module to watch for
    // the exact list of strings used on a page. From a performance
    // perspective that is a really bad idea, so we have no user
    // interface for this. Be careful when turning this option off!
    if (variable_get('locale_cache_strings', 1) == 1) {
      if ($cache = cache_get('locale:' . $langcode, 'cache')) {
        $locale_t[$langcode] = $cache->data;
      }
      elseif (lock_acquire('locale_cache_' . $langcode)) {
        // Refresh database stored cache of translations for given language.
        // We only store short strings used in current version, to improve
        // performance and consume less memory.
        $result = db_query("SELECT s.source, t.translation, t.language FROM {locales_source} s LEFT JOIN {locales_target} t ON s.lid = t.lid AND t.language = '%s' WHERE s.textgroup = 'default' AND s.version = '%s' AND LENGTH(s.source) < 75", $langcode, VERSION);
        while ($data = db_fetch_object($result)) {
          $locale_t[$langcode][$data->source] = (empty($data->translation) ? TRUE : $data->translation);
        }
        cache_set('locale:' . $langcode, $locale_t[$langcode]);
        lock_release('locale_cache_' . $langcode);
      }
    }
  }

  // If we have the translation cached, skip checking the database
  if (!isset($locale_t[$langcode][$string])) {

    // We do not have this translation cached, so get it from the DB.
    $translation = db_fetch_object(db_query("SELECT s.lid, t.translation, s.version FROM {locales_source} s LEFT JOIN {locales_target} t ON s.lid = t.lid AND t.language = '%s' WHERE s.source = '%s' AND s.textgroup = 'default'", $langcode, $string));
    if ($translation) {
      // We have the source string at least.
      // Cache translation string or TRUE if no translation exists.
      $locale_t[$langcode][$string] = (empty($translation->translation) ? TRUE : $translation->translation);

      if ($translation->version != VERSION) {
        // This is the first use of this string under current Drupal version. Save version
        // and clear cache, to include the string into caching next time. Saved version is
        // also a string-history information for later pruning of the tables.
        db_query("UPDATE {locales_source} SET version = '%s' WHERE lid = %d", VERSION, $translation->lid);
        cache_clear_all('locale:', 'cache', TRUE);
      }
    }
    else {
      // We don't have the source string, cache this as untranslated.
      db_query("INSERT INTO {locales_source} (location, source, textgroup, version) VALUES ('%s', '%s', 'default', '%s')", request_uri(), $string, VERSION);
      $locale_t[$langcode][$string] = TRUE;
      // Clear locale cache so this string can be added in a later request.
      cache_clear_all('locale:', 'cache', TRUE);
    }
  }

  return ($locale_t[$langcode][$string] === TRUE ? $string : $locale_t[$langcode][$string]);
}