how to get poedit working?

Question

i have followed the instructions in http://www.bunchacode.com/programming/internationalization-and-localization-in-cakephp/

but i keep getting this error xgettext: language `php' unknown

i have googled like crazy. i cannot find it.

Answer 1

To solve this you need to tell xgettext to use PHP as language for your files (when using file extensions like .phtml or similar.

In Poedit open the settings, go to the parser tab, select PHP and then click edit. In the parser line with xgettext add --language=PHP so it looks like this:

xgettext --language=PHP --force-po -o %o %C %K %F

Maybe you need to add some extensions of PHP files to the extension input field above that occur in your project, for example:

*.php;*.phtml

This should be enough.