Plural

The message might include replacements, in the form %[A-Za-z]%. Those are replaced by the values provided. A raw % can be escaped like %%.

You need to provide a singular and plural variant for the string. The strings provided should be English and will be translated depending on the environment language.

This interface follows the interfaces of XLIFF, gettext, Symfony Translations and Zend_Translate. For singular forms you just provide a plain string (with optional placeholders without effects on the plural forms). For potential plural forms you always provide a singular variant and an English simple plural variant. An instance of this class can be cast to a string. In such case whether to use singular or plural form is determined based on the value of first element of $values array (it needs to be 1 for singular, anything else for plural). If plurality cannot be inferred from $values, a plural form is assumed as default. To force singular form, use Message instead.

No implementation supports multiple different plural forms in one single message.

The singular / plural string could, for Symfony, for example be converted to "$singular|$plural", and you would call gettext like: ngettext($singular, $plural, $count ).

Used by attributes(), override to add dynamic properties