iconv and gettext implement step

refer to http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2002/06/13/php.html

1.     Install iconv and gettext module and make configure on server

Download libiconv-1.9.1.tar.gz, gettext-0.12.1.tar.gz, apache_1.3.22.tar.gz, php-4.2.tar.gz [libiconv] ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-extra-encodings make make install [gettext] ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make make install   [apache] ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/APACHE --enable-module=so make make install /usr/local/APACHE/bin/apachectl stop [php] ./configure --with-oci8=/home/oracle/OraHome1 --with-apxs=/usr/local/APACHE/bin/apxs --enable-sigchild --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-iconv=/usr/local --with-gettext=/usr/local --enable-track-vars --enable-mbstring=all make make install]   /usr/local/APACHE/bin/apachectl start

 

2.     gettext implement step

1)    Write PHP file using gettext function

For example:

<?

$language = 'zh_CN';

putenv("LANG=".$language);

putenv("LANGUAGE=".$language);

$newLocale=setlocale(LC_ALL, $language);

echo "current Locale: ".$newLocale."<BR>";

// Set the text domain as 'messages'

$domain = 'messages';

bindtextdomain($domain, "./locale");

textdomain($domain);

echo gettext("Hello everyone");

print(_("Hello World"));

?>

2)    Setting Up the Gettext locale directory

/locale

    /en

        /LC_MESSAGES

            messages.po

            messages.mo

    /zh_CN

        /LC_MESSAGES

            messages.po

        messages.mo

3)    extracts translatable strings and generate *.po files to translate

$ xgettext -n *.php

message.po:

# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE. # Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER # This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE packag # FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR. # #, fuzzy msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION/n" "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: /n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2004-01-16 03:28+0000/n" "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE/n" "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>/n" "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <[e-mail]>/n" "MIME-Version: 1.0/n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET/n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit/n" #: gettext.php:23 msgid "Hello everyone" msgstr "" #: gettext.php:24 msgid "Hello World" msgstr ""

 

4)    Fill translation of msgid into msgstr and convert *.po to *.mo

$ msgfmt messages.po

$ cp messages.mo locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/

 

5)    Maintain translation message file—msgmerge

For example:

ls example.php $ xgettext -n *.php $ ls example.php   messages.po // ... // Translates the messages.po file now // ... $ msgfmt messages.po $ ls example.php   messages.po   messages.mo // ... // Changes the example.php file // ... $ mv messages.po old.po $ xgettext -n *.php $ ls example.php   messages.po   messages.mo   old.po $ msgmerge old.po messages.po --output-file=new.po $ ls example.php   messages.po   messages.mo   new.po    old.po // ... // Translates the new.po file // ... $ msgfmt new.po