Plugin string support class.

class sed_lib_mlp
  {
  var $strings;
  var $owner;
  var $prefix;
  var $lang;
  var $event;
 
  function sed_lib_mlp( $plugin_name , $strarray , $prefix='' , $ev='common' , $lng='en-gb' )
    {
    $this->owner = $plugin_name;
    $this->prefix = (empty($prefix)) ? strtolower( strtr($plugin_name, array('-'=>'_') ) ) : $prefix;
    $this->strings = $strarray;
    $this->lang = $lng;
    $this->event = $ev;    # valid events are 'public' , 'admin' and 'common'
    register_callback( array(&$this, 'callback') , 'l10n.enumerate_strings' );
    }
 
  function callback()
    {
    $r = array(
      'owner'    => $this->owner,
      'prefix'  => $this->prefix,
      'lang'     => $this->lang,
      'event'   => $this->event,
      'strings'  => $this->strings,
      );
    return $r;
    }
 
  #  Generic lookup
  #  $what = key to look up, should be a lowercase string.
  #  $args = any arguments the key is expecting for replacement
  function gTxt( $what , $args = array() )
    {
    global $textarray;
 
    # Prepare the prefixed key for use
    #$what = strtolower($what);
    $key = $this->prefix . '-' . $what;
 
    # Grab from the global textarray (possibly edited by MLP) if we can
    if( isset( $textarray[$key]) )
      $str = $textarray[$key];
    else
      # The string isn't in the localised textarray so fallback to using the (non prefixed) string array in the plugin
      $str = ( isset($this->strings[$what]) ) ? $this->strings[$what] : $what;
 
    $str = strtr($str, $args);
    return $str;
    }
  }

Usage in plugin

$strings =array( ... );

$str = new sed_lib_mlp( 'ebl_batch_upload', $strings );

# Where needed...

echo $str->gTxt('my_string');