PHP gettext returns input as result in Homestead

Question

In a project of our company we use gettext to translate text. This has been working for several years, but now I am trying to run the project in Homestead, everything works fine except gettext. When use for example gettext('input_string') it returns input_string. On our server and in MAMP everything is working fine. What could be the problem? I am running the project on Apache and PHP 7.0 (same as the server and MAMP)

The domain for locales is binded like this:

bindtextdomain('projectname', APPLICATION_PATH. DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'locale');
textdomain('projectname');
bind_textdomain_codeset('projectname', 'UTF-8');

The path in the bindtextdomain is correct. The file structure is:

 - locale
   - en_US
     - LC_MESSAGES
       - projectname.mo
       - projectname.po
   - fr_FR
     - LC_MESSAGES
       - projectname.mo
       - projectname.po
   - nl_NL
     - LC_MESSAGES
       - projectname.mo
       - projectname.po
   - pt_PT
     - LC_MESSAGES
       - projectname.mo
       - projectname.po

Seems `gettext()` can't find your language files, since it's echoing the input string. — Anuga, Jan 02 '19 at 14:55
@Anuga I added the binding and the structue of the language files to the original question — Bart Bergmans, Jan 02 '19 at 15:01
Whoops sorry, it's there. Just forgot to mention. Updated my question. — Bart Bergmans, Jan 02 '19 at 15:06
And you've set, `$lang = "en_US";` , `putenv("LC_ALL={$lang}");` , `setlocale(LC_ALL, $lang);` ? — Anuga, Jan 02 '19 at 15:10
yes `setlocale(LC_ALL, DEFAULT_LOCALE); putenv('LC_ALL=' . DEFAULT_LOCALE);` — Bart Bergmans, Jan 02 '19 at 15:10
Okey, one last thing :) Verify that it's not looking for `projectname.UTF-8.mo` and `projectname.UTF-8.po`. — Anuga, Jan 02 '19 at 15:18
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/186055/discussion-between-anuga-and-bart-bergmans). — Anuga, Jan 02 '19 at 15:32

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 10 '19 at 12:18

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The locale wasn't installed on Homestead. Fixed it by using sudo locale-gen nl_NL

answered Jan 10 '19 at 12:18

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