Thanks Marcelo. I will do as you suggested. On Aug 18, 6:38 pm, Marcelo Andrade <mfandr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:30 PM, RhythmicDevil<rhythmicde...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >(..) > > From what I have read I gather that I wrap all my strings in my views > > with __(). Create language directories in /app/locale like the > > following: > > /app/locale/ > > eng/ > > LC_MESSAGES/ > > en_GB/ > > LC_MESSAGES/ > > Then I go to the console and run $cakei18n. I give that the path > > where the files I want to extract reside and then give it the path > > where I want it output the files. The paths I used were: > > > /home/swright/vhosts/solowsc/app/views > > /home/swright/vhosts/solowsc/app/locale > > > This created a file called default.pot in the following location: > > /home/swright/vhosts/solowsc/app/locale > > You have to put the .po files into the LC_MESSAGES > directory for each language. > > > Thats about as far as I get. I have no idea what to do with the > > created file. Where do the .po and .mo files come in? Do I have to > > create them? I also would have thought that the output path should > > have been a particular language directory. I get the impression from > > what I have read that the translation and file creation is an > > automated process, is that correct? > > All you have to do to create the files is enclose youri18nstring messages > with the __() function. Then, > running cakei18nfrom console, you'll have a default > language version .po file. Then copy it to the other > LC_MESSAGES language directory and make the > translations (with poEdit or a plain text editor). > > CakePHP uses the .po files to generate (compile) the > .mo files internally. You don't have to deal with it. > > > I have a basic test working but the files are hand created and I dont > > think thats the correct way to do it. I would really appreciate if > > someone could fill in the holes with, perhaps, a set of detailed steps > > what will work for CakePHP1.2. > > Well... I did ani18napplication with Cake sometime > ago and I didn't dive into problems. It was an easy > job. Check this tips and read the cookboo too and > tell us if you're still getting into problems. > > http://book.cakephp.org/view/161/Internationalization-Localization > > Best regards. > > -- > MARCELO DE F. ANDRADE > Belem, PA, Amazonia, Brazil > Linux User #221105 > > http://mfandrade.wordpress.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
