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Defined in

libraries/joomla/language/language.php

Methods

Method name	Description
__construct	Constructor activating the default information of the language
getInstance	Returns a reference to a language object
_	Translate function, mimics the php gettext (alias _) function
transliterate	Transliterate function
exists	Check if a language exists
load	Loads a single language file and appends the results to the existing strings
get	Get a matadata language property
getName	Getter for Name
getPaths	Get a list of language files that have been loaded
getPdfFontName	Getter for PDF Font Name
getWinCP	Getter for Windows locale code page
getBackwardLang	Getter for backward compatible language name
getTag	Get for the language tag (as defined in RFC 3066)
getLocale	Get locale property
isRTL	Get the RTL property
setDebug	Set the Debug property
getDebug	Get the Debug property
getDefault	Get the default language code
setDefault	Set the default language code
getOrphans	Get the list of orphaned strings if being tracked
getUsed	Get the list of used strings
hasKey	Determines is a key exists
getMetadata	Returns a associative array holding the metadata
getKnownLanguages	Returns a list of known languages for an area
getLanguagePath	Get the path to a language
setLanguage	Set the language attributes to the given language

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.language.language' );