personal-website/utils/localization.php

<?php

/////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Avaliable variables after importing this file
/////////////////////////////////////////////////

// The actual language being used
$lang = null;
// Avaliable detected languages
$langs = [];
// Function that gets the strings
$trans = function () {
  return 'N/A';
};

/* I use functions to create scopes. Anything below
 * shouldn't be accesible from outside
 */

/* -------------------------------------------------*/

$__langfunc = function () use (&$lang, &$langs, &$trans) {


  ///////////////
  /// Get basedir
  ///////////////

  // DOCUMENT_ROOT makes sure we always get the right folder
  $basedir = sprintf('%s/lang', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);


  ///////////////////////////////////////
  /// Get the languages we have avaliable
  ///////////////////////////////////////

  // To get the langs we scan the folder with the ini files
  $langs = scandir($basedir);
  // Filter for those that have two letters and end in ".ini"
  $langs = array_filter($langs, fn ($x) => preg_match('/.*\.ini/', $x) === 1);
  // And we remove the ".ini" part
  $langs = array_map(fn ($x) => substr($x, 0, 2), $langs);


  ////////////////////////////////////
  /// Get the optimal language to use
  ////////////////////////////////////

  /* Try to get the language from browser-sent headers. The
   * format for the header is like this: "en_US,es;q=0.5,ar;q=0.1".
   * q=N represents the weight of preference, no q means q=1.0.
   */
  if ($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] ?? false) {
    // Divide language string per language
    $http_langs = explode(',', $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']);

    // Sanitize lang string and cast weight
    $http_langs = array_map(function ($x) {
      $x = explode(';', $x);
      $x[0] = strtolower(substr($x[0], 0, 2));
      $x[1] = (float)(explode('=', $x[1] ?? 'q=1.0')[1] ?? 1.0);
      return $x;
    }, $http_langs);

    // Sort by weight
    usort($http_langs, function ($a, $b) {
      if ($a[1] === $b[1]) return 0;
      return ($a[1] > $b[1]) ? -1 : 1;
    });


    // Create new neat array like this: ['en', 'es', 'ar']
    $user_langs = [];
    array_walk($http_langs, function ($arr) use (&$user_langs) {
      if (!in_array($arr[0], $user_langs)) $user_langs[] = $arr[0];
    });

    // Assign the first match
    foreach ($user_langs as $ilang) {
      if (in_array($ilang, $langs)) {
        $lang = $ilang;
        break;
      }
    }
  }

  // Manully selected lang > HTTP lang > fallback lang
  $lang = ($_GET['lang'] ?? null) ?: $lang ?: 'en';


  ///////////////////////////////////////////////////
  /// Get file and build function to get the strings
  ///////////////////////////////////////////////////

  $text = parse_ini_file("$basedir/$lang.ini", true);
  $trans = function (string $index) use ($text): string {
    // return htmlspecialchars($text[$index] ?? 'N/A', ENT_QUOTES);
    return $text[$index] ?? 'N/A';
  };
};

// Burn after reading
$__langfunc();
unset($__langfunc);