Advanced translations depending on variables gender, number, etc... about jmstranslationbundle HOT 5 CLOSED

Something like this should probably be added to Symfony2's Translation component itself, no?

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I posted the issue on Symfony's project too. However I think that this could be an enhancement that a Bundle could first provide and maybe at a certain point could be included in the main project (once it gains a certain level of maturity). I can help developing it (because it's something i'm going to use really soon in my application) here or directly on symfony project, but first I wanted some advices about how to proceed from someone who already extended/improved the core behaviour.

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Implementation wise you probably need a new method on the Translator like the transChoice method with an extra set of arguments.

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I've seen the transchoice method and the approach is really simple: it takes the string and split it with the | sign. Then, given a specific set of rules, or using the standard one, it choose what plural form to use depending on the number given as parameter. this pipe-approach risks to be a mess if not coded the right way.
One possible approach is to extend the tags and range definitions with something like this:
%user% m{1}, subject m, %friend% {1}m, viewing m: %user% wrote on %friend%'s wall for his birthday|%user% m[2,Inf], subject m, %friend% {1}f, viewing m: %user% wrote on %friend%'s wall for her birthday

In the symfony documentation it's written: The tags can be any descriptive string that ends with a colon (:). The tags also do not need to be the same in the original message as in the translated one.

So basically we are using commas to separate variables, a space to specify gender/number of each variable, gender can be m/f/n, number can be any explicit interval notation taken from this: http://api.symfony.com/master/Symfony/Component/Translation/Interval.html

Using the tags we could possibly even extend the already existing transchoice method (although a new one should be more clear). The only difference is that the passed variable should not be a string/number but an array('string' => 'Mark, John and 2 others', 'number' => 4, 'gender' => 'm') and that we don't need the third parameter anymore
What do you think about it?

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Closing as this more belongs to Symfony itself.

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