On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:01:54 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zak Greant) wrote:
>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. : )
Whooaa!
I finally! got it working!
===
C:/Inetpub/PowerPlate/melle/includes/translations
English: str_hello
French: allo
Italian: str_hello
Portuguese: str_hello
Spanish: str_hello
Nederlands: hallo
===
What I had to change (back) was:
bindtextdomain ("greetings", ".\includes\translations");
Above does not work. When I changed this to:
bindtextdomain ("greetings", ".\\includes\\translations");
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 simply tried to change
the *.mo filename to be the same as the 'domain' and it worked...
gettext suddenly worked on windows! :-)
I provide my code and folder-structure here for other windows-users:
<?
// 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, gettext("str_hello")) & "\n";
}
?>
In the windows-webfolder I have the following directory-structure:
==
\includes\translations
\includes\translations\en
\includes\translations\en\LC_MESSAGES
\includes\translations\en\LC_MESSAGES\greetings.po
\includes\translations\fr
\includes\translations\fr\LC_MESSAGES
\includes\translations\fr\LC_MESSAGES\greetings.mo
\includes\translations\fr\LC_MESSAGES\greetings.po
\includes\translations\it
\includes\translations\it\LC_MESSAGES
\includes\translations\it\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
\includes\translations\pt
\includes\translations\pt\LC_MESSAGES
\includes\translations\pt\LC_MESSAGES\greetings.po
\includes\translations\sp
\includes\translations\sp\LC_MESSAGES
\includes\translations\sp\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+0100\n"
"Last-Translator: Melle Koning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\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"
===
and you have to 'compile' this .po file to a .mo file with the
following command-line (go to '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
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