note 16835 modified in ref.gettext by thomasgm

I had alot of problems to get gettext() to work on my windows2000-php webserver. The following will give those windows-php users something to hold on to: Note the way you have to use slashes for the bindtextdomain command: For a 'greetings' domain: bindtextdomain ("greetings", ".\includes\translations"); (so, TWO slashes instead of one between the folder-names!) ALSO, I had to change the filename to be 'greetings.mo': This was NOT clear from all the gnu-pages I read. I had named those files: nl.mo (for dutch) and fr.mo (for french etcetera). I provide my code and folder-structure here for other windows-users: <? Header("Content-type: text/plain"); // 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 => $language) { # Set the LANGUAGE environment variable to the desired language putenv ('LANG='.$iso_code); # Print out the language name and greeting # Filter the greeting through gettext printf ("%12s: %s\n", $language, gettext("str_hello")) & "\n"; } ?> In the windows-webfolder I have the following directory-structure: == includes\translations includes\translationsen includes\translations\en\LC_MESSAGES includes\translations\en\LC_MESSAGES\greetings.po includes\translations\nl\ includes\translations\nl\LC_MESSAGES includes\translations\nl\LC_MESSAGES\greetings.mo \includes\translations\nl\LC_MESSAGES\greetings.po === To get this working you will need a greetings.po file like this: (this one is in the 'nl' subdir for dutch language): === msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: n" "POT-Creation-Date: n" "PO-Revision-Date: 2001-11-14 17:11+0100n" "Last-Translator: Melle Koning <hace_x@yahoo.com>n" "Language-Team: <>n" "MIME-Version: 1.0n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitn" msgid "str_hello" msgstr "hallo" === and you have to 'compile' this .po file to a .mo file with the following command-line (go to windows 'command prompt'): == msgfmt -o greetings.mo greetings.po == To get msgfmt working on your windows machine, you will need to have libiconv.dll, libintl.dll and msgfmt.exe in your path. What I did was put these three files in a new c:utils folder and than run the command: path=%path%;c:utils I hope this helps some windows-users like me to get gettext() to work on their systems....... Cheers, Melle hace_x@yahoo.com --was-- I had alot of problems to get gettext() to work on my windows2000-php webserver. The following will give those windows-php users something to hold on to: Note the way you have to use slashes for the bindtextdomain command: For a 'greetings' domain: bindtextdomain ("greetings", ".\includes\translations"); (so, TWO slashes instead of one between the folder-names!) ALSO, I had to change the filename to be 'greetings.mo': This was NOT clear from all the gnu-pages I read. I had named those files: nl.mo (for dutch) and fr.mo (for french etcetera). I provide my code and folder-structure here for other windows-users: <? Header("Content-type: text/plain"); // 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 => $language) { # Set the LANGUAGE environment variable to the desired language putenv ('LANG='.$iso_code); # Print out the language name and greeting # Filter the greeting through gettext printf ("%12s: %s\n", $language, gettext("str_hello")) & "\n"; } ?> In the windows-webfolder I have the following directory-structure: == includes\translations includes\translationsen includes\translations\en\LC_MESSAGES includes\translations\en\LC_MESSAGES\greetings.po includes\translations\nl\ includes\translations\nl\LC_MESSAGES includes\translations\nl\LC_MESSAGES\greetings.mo \includes\translations\nl\LC_MESSAGES\greetings.po === To get this working you will need a greetings.po file like this: (this one is in the 'nl' subdir for dutch language): === msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: n" "POT-Creation-Date: n" "PO-Revision-Date: 2001-11-14 17:11+0100n" "Last-Translator: Melle Koning <hace_x@yahoo.com>n" "Language-Team: <>n" "MIME-Version: 1.0n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitn" msgid "str_hello" msgstr "hallo" === and you have to 'compile' this .po file to a .mo file with the following command-line (go to windows 'command prompt'): == msgfmt -o greetings.mo greetings.po == To get msgfmt working on your windows machine, you will need to have libiconv.dll, libintl.dll and msgfmt.exe in your path. What I did was put these three files in a new c:utils folder and than run the command: path=%path%;c:utils I hope this helps some windows-users like me to get gettext() to work on their systems....... Cheers, Melle hace_x@yahoo.com http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.gettext.php