note 15502 added to ref.gettext

Gettext is great, but there are a few caveats you have to consider in order to make it work. Unfortunately the gettext docs isn't so plain and clear... The .mo file created with the gettext utilities must be: [bindtextdomain's dir]/[language]/LC_MESSAGES/[domain].mo otherwise gettext() function will fail to find it (this is true in win32, don't know about Un*ces). By the way you don't get any error message, the strings will simply remain untranslated. Second, you must make sure which is the current directory if you use a relative path in bindtextdomain. On some systems the script directory isn't the current directory, so you have to chdir() there. Then, of course, make sure that the appropriate gettext extension are loaded by PHP by looking at the php configuration file. Here is some sample code: // Change to the script directory $path = dirname(getenv(PATH_TRANSLATED)); chdir($path); // Set the language as 'it' $language = 'it'; putenv("LANG=$language"); setlocale(LC_ALL, $language); // Set the text domain as 'mydomain' $domain = 'mydomain'; bindtextdomain("$domain", "./locale"); textdomain("$domain"); // The .mo file searched is: // ./locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/mydomain.mo echo gettext("Hello world!"); Have fun! Michele http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.gettext.php