php gettext() showing up msgid instead of msgstr

Question

Here is my messages.po file

#

msgid "_greet1"
msgstr "Hello"

msgid "_greet2"
msgstr "Bye"

I get this po file compiled to mo file using PO Edit, and when I use the mo file inside translation code, I see msgid of the string instead of msgstr. I am using exactly same code written in PHP documentation for gettext.

Any suggestions...

That means gettext could not locate your translations. Do debug this, we'll need a lot more information... — deceze, Jul 04 '16 at 10:03
That's not a lot of useful information. If nothing was wrong, you'd see "Hello" instead of "_greet1". — deceze, Jul 04 '16 at 10:18

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 31 '17 at 11:11

I had the same problem and my folder path was correct too. The reason of the issue was that I was using 'pl_PL' as locale instead of 'pl_PL.utf8' (in source code and as a folder name).

Solution - remember about UTF-8:

Check in console what locales you have and what are their real names: locale -a. (In case there is no locale you are interested on you can type: sudo apt-get install locales-all)
Use correct locale name in your code, for instance: setlocale(LC_ALL, 'pl_PL.utf8');
Change your folder name. Correct path to sample folder with *.mo and *.po file is: /var/www/project/locale/pl_PL.utf8/LC_MESSAGES

php gettext() showing up msgid instead of msgstr

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