I am struggling for days now to get into translation files with PHP's gettext() function and creating the files with Poedit. Poedit didn't come with a helpfile either and I tried lots of things found online but nothing works.. I am on Mac OSX with an XAMPP configuration. I think the problem has to be filepath in the catalog settings. I tried all possible paths but can't seem to parse the gettext functions.
on OSX Poedit resides in
/Applications/
my XAMPP dir is
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/
inside this dir I created gettext.php with
<?php echo _("Hello World"); echo gettext("Goodmorning"); ?>
and the following folders:
/locale/
/locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/
With Poedit when I do > File > New Catalog
Language: Italian
Country: Italy
Charset: UTF-8
Source code charset: UTF-8
Base path: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/
Than I save default.po to /locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/
"Updating the catalog failed. Click on 'More>>' for details
13:04:10: Poedit did not find any files in scanned directories.
13:04:11: Entries in the catalog are probably incorrect.
13:04:11: Updating the catalog failed. Click on 'More>>' for details.
