Gettext to work with context (pgettext)

Question

I'd like to use pgettext to specify the context of some strings to translate, I've found that you need to add it yourself in PHP, which is what I did following this post's instructions. I've changed it a little bit to make it work (the dcgettext function call had some errors):

function pgettext($context, $msgid) {
  $contextString = "{$context}\004{$msgid}";
  $translation = dcgettext('messages', $contextString, 5);
  if ($translation == $contextString) return $msgid;
  else return $translation;
}

But this function doesn't seems to work, the text is not changing when I change the language.

What am I missing?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 15 '15 at 15:12

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I've found a solution that is working well for me:

function pgettext($context, $msgid) {
  $contextString = "{$context}\004{$msgid}"; 
  $translation = _($contextString); 

  if($translation == $contextString) return $msgid;
  else return $translation;
}

answered Aug 15 '15 at 15:12

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This solution no longer seems to be working in PHP 7.0.x. The contextualized string remains untranslated. Has anyone else run into this issue with >=PHP 7.0x ? – Richard Laffers Jun 10 '17 at 13:13
@RichardLaffers Works for me in PHP7.0 – Mārtiņš Briedis Mar 14 '18 at 10:34

Gettext to work with context (pgettext)

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