What does PHP's underscore function do?

Question

What does this function do?

_()

Can you link me to the relevant documentation, as searching for \"_\" is nigh on impossible?

Answer 1

Note sure I understand your question but here are some explanations for common scenarios.

• PHP Magic Method
• Old PHP4 method of defining private methods
• gettext() alias used for localisation

Answer 2

If you open http://www.php.net/_ you get to the documentation of the _() function and see its for localization stuff (gettext).

Answer 3

_() is an alias of gettext().

Answer 4

It's an alias for the gettext() function.