Re: GetText string not found

Is strange that there is not a really good solution for this problem, i think its not very strange. Maybe i ll request this feature, I think is interesting, useful and not so hard to add. Anyway, I cannot use "ob_ " functions, i ll have problems with some functions. So, the solution seems to extend "_" function, that provides me the posibility to report "strings" not found. The bad think is that I ll have to make thousands of modifications in order to implement this feature in the webpage :( Thanks to everybody! Richard Lynch wrote:

On Tue, June 13, 2006 6:30 am, Ruben Rubio Rey wrote:

I am using gettext to get a web page in several languages. When gettext does not found an string, it shows the string. Is it possible to detect when a string is not found, in order to advis me ?

My experience, if you call it that, with gettext consists of reading the manual and saying "Neat!", so take this with a HUGE grain of salt... One option that MIGHT work would be: function ___ ($string) { //check for existince of the language file/string by hand :-( } Another option, perhaps, would be to have your "default" language be something really... weird, and then the output itself would be icky... I suppose you could do something hacky like: <?php ob_start(); __'GETTEXT_START_MARKER This is the actual message GETTEXT_END_MARKER'; ?> All code/html here. <?php $output = ob_get_contents(); preg_match_all('/GETTEXT_START_MARKER (.*) GETEXT_END_MARKER/U', $output, $gettexts); foreach($gettexts[1] as $unknown){ error_log($unknown); } $output = str_replace(array('GETTEXT_START_MARKER ', ' GETTEXT_END_MARKER'), '', $output); echo $output; ?> Ugh. Maybe a Feature Request at GetText and/or bugs.php.net would be in order...