String API

The String API is how you get language text strings to use in the user interface. It handles internationaliation issues, and will use a number of settings and environment variables to present the best text to every user.

This doc should talk about (at least):

• basic information on how to format the main language file in a plugin (eg mod/forum/lang/en/xxxx.php), copy info from Places_to_search_for_lang_strings to here. Include info on the REQUIRED strings such as "pluginname".
• Information on $a variables and how to use quotes correctly in the language strings
• get_string(), get_strings(), print_string() functions and roughly how they work (language packs, parent languages etc)
• lang_string() class in 2.3

See also

• Core APIs