Zend_Translate : Auto-extract string from views

Question

i don't figure out a way to extract automaticaly string to be translated in files.

For instance, you've got in your layout and views some echo $this->translate('my_string'); and I want to created the files 'en_US.php', 'fr_FR.php', 'es_ES.php' with the comparative array :

<?php return array('my_string' => 'translation of my string'); ?>

Is it possible ?

Thanks.

i think you need the gettext adapater and an tool like poedit — opHASnoNAME, Mar 19 '11 at 14:30

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 19 '11 at 20:24

Yes, it is.

Put in your application.ini:

resources.translate.adapter = Array
resources.translate.locale = fr_FR
resources.translate.disableNotices = true
resources.translate.data = APPLICATION_PATH "/data"

And put file fr_FR.php in your APPLICATION_PATH "/data" directory. It should work.

The file must be something like this:

return array (
   'Good day' => 'Bojour',
);

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 19 '11 at 20:45

Look at the Zend_Translate adapters and choose one. I warmly recommend the gettext adapter.

Here is how to implement i18n in your Zend Framework application:

Setup a translation adapter during Bootstrap
Store the adapter object in the registry with Zend_Registry::set('Zend_Translate', $translate);
Wrap all text in the equivalent of $translate->translate('This is translatable text');
Install 'gettext' on your development machine.
Install and setup poEdit. poEdit will scan your application and find all translatable strings. It will then store them in a .po file, which you can edit and multiply for other languages.
When you're done, save it and poEdit stores creates the .mo files. The Zend_Translate gettext adapter needs those.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 19 '11 at 19:14

Using PHP to translate a project is handy for small project, and consequently you shouldn't need such tools.

There are such tools for gettext, like poedit, which will parse your project and search for the given function/method (translate()). POedit will generate .po file which basicly consists of plain/text file which looks like:

#: src/name.c:36
msgid "My name is %s.\n"
msgstr ""

If you really need to use a PHP file for your translation, you may try some grep, sed, awk, something like this should give a starting point (not tested):

echo "return array(" > mytranslation.php | \
grep "translate(" * | \
cut -f1 | \
sed -r 's@.*translate\((.*)\).*@\1 => "Not translated yet",@' >> mytranslation.php && \
echo ");" >> mytranslation.php

Zend_Translate : Auto-extract string from views

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