Bug #53986 [Opn->Dup]: Weird behavior upon reading .mo files

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53986&edit=1 ID: 53986 Updated by: cmb@php.net Reported by: cristian dot datculescu at gmail dot com Summary: Weird behavior upon reading .mo files -Status: Open +Status: Duplicate Type: Bug Package: Gettext related Operating System: CentOS 5.2 PHP Version: Irrelevant -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: This is basically a duplicate of bug #53128. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-02-14 14:56:18] cristian dot datculescu at gmail dot com <?php // set the locale putenv("LANGUAGE=fr_FR"); setlocale(LC_ALL, "fr_FR"); $domain_new = "messages_1"; // bind the text domain bindtextdomain($domain_new, dirname(__FILE__) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . "locale"); // set the new domain textdomain($domain_new); $strlen = array(); // the sample text echo gettext("Niste informatie de test!"); ?> The .mo file contains only the "Niste informatie de test!" phrase translated into "version1". This script runned for the first time will translate ok. Changing the name of the file to messages_2 and the translation to "version_2" [and updating the php as necessary], will lead to keeping the old translation [although a new domain has been set] or translating the text only about 50% [with a small deviation]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-02-12 08:40:36] kalle@php.net Thank you for this bug report. To properly diagnose the problem, we need a short but complete example script to be able to reproduce this bug ourselves. A proper reproducing script starts with <?php and ends with ?>, is max. 10-20 lines long and does not require any external resources such as databases, etc. If the script requires a database to demonstrate the issue, please make sure it creates all necessary tables, stored procedures etc. Please avoid embedding huge scripts into the report. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-02-10 17:32:36] cristian dot datculescu at gmail dot com Description: ------------ When changing the .mo files, the changes are not taken into consideration until reloading/restarting the webserver. The solution we are using at the moment is to make symlinks for the modified .mo files and version them (so basicly php ends up reading a default_5.mo file). But we have run into a bug that it is for us very hard to track: sometimes while changing the .mo files and updating the version, about 50% of the translation attempts fail, reverting to printing the original text. It continues to do so until the webserver is reloaded/restarted. I have managed to replicate the bug by doing this: create the sylink, restart server, delete the symlink. In some of the cases the weird behaviour will start to manifest. What is even weirder is that putting back the symlinks does not help, the translation requests continuing to be 50% failed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53986&edit=1