Re: Re: how to get php_gettext.dll work on windows2000 / iis5 server?

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:01:54 -0700, zak@php.net (Zak Greant) wrote: >Drop by http://www.php-er.com and take a look at the chapter on >gettext. > >I have written a complete overview of using gettext with PHP. It is >also Unix-centric, but it is easier to understand than the gettext >docs. : ) Your page at: http://www.php-er.com/chapters/Gettext_Functions.html is very clear! I have also completed the 'msgfmt' utility, so I have succesfully created a "binary language file" (the .mo file from the .po file) But.. unfortunately I still could not manage to get it work :-( This is what I have done. On the W2000-webserver, I've put the nl.mo file in the following folder (directory): [webroot]\melle\includes\translations\nl\LC_MESSAGES so, in that directory resides the 'nl.mo' file. I've altered your .php example to read: ========= <HTML> <BODY> <? // Bind a domain to directory // Gettext uses domains to know what directories to // search for translations to messages passed to gettext bindtextdomain ('greetings', './includes/translations'); // Set the current domain that gettext will use textdomain ('greetings'); # Make an array # Use the ISO two-letter codes as keys # Use the language names as values $iso_codes = array ( 'en'=>'English', 'fr'=>'French', 'it'=>'Italian', 'pt'=>'Portuguese', 'es'=>'Spanish', 'nl'=>'Nederlands' ); foreach ($iso_codes as $iso_code => $language) { # Set the LANGUAGE environment variable to the desired language putenv ('LANGUAGE='.$iso_code); # Print out the language name and greeting # Filter the greeting through gettext printf ("<b>%12s:</b> %s\n", $language, _("str_hello")); } ?></BODY></HTML> ======= I've put the above .php file in the [webroot]\melle folder. The (wrong) output is: English: str_hello French: str_hello Italian: str_hello Portuguese: str_hello Spanish: str_hello Nederlands: str_hello And, in the nl.po file, I have entered: ====== msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: \n" "POT-Creation-Date: \n" "PO-Revision-Date: 2001-11-14 17:11+0100\n" "Last-Translator: Melle Koning <hace_x@yahoo.com>\n" "Language-Team: <>\n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" msgid "str_hello" msgstr "hallo" ====== So, what I expected was: === English: str_hello French: str_hello Italian: str_hello Portuguese: str_hello Spanish: str_hello Nederlands: hallo === So this does not work! Now, what I think could still be going wrong is that 'gettext' is unable to find the nl.mo file, in other words gettext is unable to find the right folder(directory)... My question: How should I alter: bindtextdomain ('greetings', './includes/translations'); I have already done this: echo bindtextdomain ('greetings', '.\includes\translations'); This returns: C:/Inetpub/PowerPlate/melle/includes/translations Which seems to be ok, with the difference that I guess windows wants to have: C:\Inetpub\PowerPlate\melle\includes\translations (backslashes instead of forward slashes)? Any other hints to get gettext to find the .mo files??? Thanks, -- http://hace.dyndns.org/ Everything I say is my own opinion and not necessarily that of my employer.