saw it used in a script, searched for it on php.net and found nothing.

Maybe someone here knows?

Looks like the letter T with an underscore.

What do you mean by "used in a script"? It is a valid function name, but it isn't a built in function.

A lot of syntax errors begin with T_ such as unexpected T_IF or unexpected T_VARIABLE.

Originally Posted by NullPointer

What do you mean by "used in a script"?

alright, that is pretty ambiguous lol

Originally Posted by NullPointer

A lot of syntax errors begin with T_ such as unexpected T_IF or unexpected T_VARIABLE.

Yeah, exactly. But it's not being output in the form of an error message; it's being used throughout the script (like you noted) As A Function, yet, I didn't find it anywhere on php.net as a built-in function; so I assumed it must've been defined by the script's author, somewhere else in that script. (that I have yet to find)

Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing that it was a built in function that I wasn't familiar with.


Looks like i'll keep searching the relevant include files until I figure it out.

Might want to do a search on the files for "function T_" or find all occurrences of "T_" or "T_=" or "T_ ="

I'd just figured out a few days ago that the author was using T_ as:

T_('Put any kind of text you want here'), in conjunction with get-text, which serves as a general translator.

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so, if your default language was English and the code snippet looked thus:

T_('How is the weather today?')

it would be displayed as:

 
T_('Wie ist das wetter huete?')

after selecting the german language file (provided, of course, that there is actually a german language file to choose from)

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This is my first time encountering get-text.

Myself personally, I favour the way i've seen this same thing done in just about every script i've ever seen...

You have a lang file for each language, and instead of writing something like: T_('How is the weather today?')

you just call a variable like: $weather_greeting

which is referenced in a (selected) lang file.

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This is, however, what get-text does. Except, with get-text, there is a bit too much code being written to handle such a simple task. The "saving" point, if we can call it that- is that it stores all of these values in a .MO file- which is great for execution speed.

However, the cache-22 on this is that; for something this simple, it's really not necessary at all to look forward to this .MO file's execution speed when you can just make a simple variable call to a generic lang file.