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Asked: 2026-05-13T17:45:57+00:00

I’m following this tutorial about building a multilingual web sites using PHP gettext http://onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2002/06/13/php.html

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I’m following this tutorial about building a multilingual web sites using PHP gettext http://onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2002/06/13/php.html

I understand the tutorial until this part:

After you have the directories all
prepared, it’s time to create the
actual “pot” file, as it is usually
referred to: the messages.po file. To
do this, you will need to have PHP
files that use the gettext() function
to “mark” strings to be translated and
use the xgettext command.

$ xgettext -n *.php

Do I have to write that in the command line?
In which folder do I have to be when I execute that command?
Is that the Linux version of the command or for Windows?

(I enabled the gettext extension in my wamp ini file)
Do I have to download gettext utilites from the GNU web page in order to create .po files?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use graphical tools like Poedit to create, edit and compile .po files :
    http://www.poedit.net/

    Features :

    • Automatic compilation of .mo files (optional).
    • You can use Poedit to scan source code for translatable strings.
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    If you prefer the command line, xgettext (from the gettext tools) is the command to extract strings from sources. It’s a GNU software available on Linux (already packaged for your distribution) and Windows (via Cygwin for example).

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