Gettext for multilangual not working for me?

[PatRoy]

Hello folks,

 

So, trying to create a multilingual website using gettext. Now, just the simplest examples doesn't seem to work for me. I've loaded gettext.so in my php.ini (see http://corbeauperdu.ddns.net/phpinfo.php) and created a PO / MO pair with POEdit.

My MO/PO file reads: 

msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: Prestadesk\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2020-03-26 21:08+0100\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: 2020-03-27 07:59+0100\n"
"Language-Team: \n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
"X-Generator: Poedit 2.3\n"
"X-Poedit-Basepath: ../../../..\n"
"Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1);\n"
"X-Poedit-SourceCharset: UTF-8\n"
"Last-Translator: \n"
"Language: fr\n"
"X-Poedit-SearchPath-0: .\n"

#: templates/prestadesk_dashboard.php:41
#, php-format
msgid "Welcome, %s!"
msgstr "Bienvenu, %s!"

#: templates/prestadesk_dashboard.php:42
msgid "This page will show the dashboard"
msgstr "Cette page affichera le tableau de bord"

It's located under <DOC_ROOT>/prestadesk/include/locales/fr/LC_MESSAGES/prestadesk.po

 

And I've got this very simple php test page under <DOC_ROOT>/prestadesk/templates/prestadesk_dashboard.php

<?php
$lang='fr';
$domain = 'prestadesk';
$codeset = 'UTF-8';
$locales_dir = '../include/locales'; // need to go up on directory from here to get into the include/locales

// here we define the global system locale given the found language
putenv('LANG='.$lang);

// this might be useful for date functions (LC_TIME) or money formatting (LC_MONETARY), for instance
setlocale(LC_ALL, $lang);

// this will make Gettext look for $locales_dir/<lang>/LC_MESSAGES/prestadesk.mo
bindtextdomain($domain, $locales_dir);

// indicates in what encoding the file should be read
bind_textdomain_codeset($domain, $codeset);

// here we indicate the default domain the gettext() calls will respond to
textdomain($domain);

// test translate
echo gettext("This page will show the dashboard");
?>

 

Nothing happens. No translation, no errors...  I just see the message in English

Any ideas for me ?

Thanks a bunch!

 

Edited March 27, 2020 by PatRoy

[PatRoy]

Found the solution by putting website on another server : turns out I need to install my desired website locales (fr_FR, nl_NL) on my server with locale-gen. Works on an ArchLinux box, but tool doesn't exist on my real server (a NAS). I have a 'localedef' on my NAS to help generate locales, but my NAS is missing all requirements for this it seems under /usr/share/i18n/ ...  

I'm lost here... Any advice on an alternative to gettext ?

 

[gizmola]

What distro is the NAS server based on?  Do you have a package management tool you can use to add/update packages?

[PatRoy]

It's a fairly old NAS...  (DLink DNS325). I've installed Fonz Fun_plug (ffp)  0.7 on it a while back now: https://nas-tweaks.net/398/installing-and-uninstalling-packages-in-fonz-fun_plug-0-7/

 

uname reads: Linux datahub 2.6.31.8 #8 Tue Jun 26 11:38:41 CST 2012 armv5tel GNU/Linux

I do have a package manager from the FFP installation named 'slacker' or 'funpkg'...  but can't see anything in there in regards of locale* ... 

In short, ffp installs to /ffp. Apps, base system of it simply chroots into /ffp/... I do have 'locale' and 'localedef' on the main NAS OS in /usr/sbin/locale*, but no charmaps, to create the locales with that localedef. Tried copying the files from my ArchLinux install /usr/share/i18n/* and symlink them on my NAS in /usr/share/i18n/:

 

ln -s /ffp/usr/share/i18n/ /usr/share

then force a creation of the locale fr_FR:

localedef -v -c -i fr_FR -f UTF-8 fr_FR.UTF-8

 

but for one thing, I'm getting a bunch of warnings such as:

Quote

/usr/share/i18n/locales/fr_FR:168: non-symbolic character value should not be used

and finally, at the end get a :

Quote

cannot open locale archive "/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive": Read-only file system

 

Info on this locale-archive:

root@datahub:~# ll /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Mar 28 23:18 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive -> /usr/local/modules/web/config/locale-archive

root@datahub:~# mount | grep /usr/local/modules
/usr/local/tmp/image.cfs on /usr/local/modules type squashfs (rw,loop=/dev/loop0)

Even though it says 'rw' in my mount options, I can't write to that FS... 

 

That's pretty much all the info I've got and tried

p.s.: if I cant do anything with gettext, any way I could temporarily use something like XMLs, JSONs etc? I was thinking of writing a Locale class that would accept a boolean say "useGettext" in the constructor...  If it's set, then simply return gettext's value when calling Locale::myGettext("Some string"); if it's NOT set, then my Locale::myGettext would fetch data in an XML /JSON or what ever else approach... 

All my code in my pages would use something like:

Locale::myGettext("Some string");

Locale::mynGettext("You have one mail", "You have %d" mails", $totalMail); 

Is this approach stupid ? I would prefer just using gettext()...

Thanks again for your help

 

 

 

Edited March 29, 2020 by PatRoy