completely lost with gettext

[Darghon]

Hello all,

 

i'm attempting to implement i18n into my project.

so I read some tutorials, copied some code and eventually made the following:

/**
 * applyMultiLingual uses the gettext module from PHP to support multilingual
 * @param Array $settings 
 */
private static function applyMultiLingual($settings){
	/* init global config */
	bindtextdomain(self::$project_name,Config::path('i18n'));
	bind_textdomain_codeset(self::$project_name, 'UTF-8');
	textdomain(self::$project_name);

	if(!array_key_exists('enabled', $settings) || $settings['enabled'] == false){
		//initiate default (english)
		putenv("LC_MESSAGES=en_EN");
		setlocale(LC_MESSAGES,'en_EN');
	}
	else{
		if(Session::language() === null){
		//initiate custom
			if($settings['default'] == 'auto'){ locale::acceptFromHttp($header); }
			else{ putenv("LC_MESSAGES=".$settings['default']);setlocale(LC_MESSAGES,$settings['default']); }
		}
		else{
			putenv("LC_MESSAGES=".Session::language());
			setlocale(LC_MESSAGES,Session::language());
		}
	}
}

 

The code is (imo) pretty readable, so it sets the textdomain to "project1", and the current language to en_EN.

if should search for the translations in DOC_ROOT/i18n/

 

now, it returns the text between the _(); functions, but I get no translation files in said directory, and I also have no clue how to accomplish this.

 

so what I want to accomplish is this:

enable use of function _(), which saves all translations in a folder i18n, and subfolder LOCALE_CODE (ex. DOC_ROOT/i18n/en_EN/messages.po).

 

what am I doing wrong, and how can I fix it?

 

thx to any who can help, and if more info is needed, ask and you shall receive.