Joomla! Documentation™

JText is a text handling class. JText allows the developer to specify text-fragments in the source-code, which will be translated into the site's language during runtime.

Defined in

libraries/joomla/methods.php

Methods

Method name	Description
_	Translates a string into the current language
sprintf	Passes a string thru an sprintf
printf	Passes a string thru an printf
script	Translate a string into the current language and stores it in the JavaScript language store.

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.methods' );

Code Examples

Simple text strings

    echo JText::_( 'Welcome' );

see also: http://docs.joomla.org/Tutorial:Template_translations