Generate .po files

How can I generate .po file for translation?

If I run "yiic messages…" there are only some generated php files. In my application config I have the following:

    'messages'=>array(

      'class'  => 'CGettextMessageSource',

      'catalog' => 'mycatalog'

    ),

Any suggestions, how to collect translations from php code to a .po file?

Sorry, I do not know the answer to this question.

But I do it the old fashioned way. I replace whatever I need translation with [color=orange]Yii::t[/color]('[color=blue]path to translation file[/color]','[color=red]string to be translated[/color]').

I wish somebody can come up a better method.

I wrote this script to generate a POT file. I have it in /protected/generate-pot.php. The output file needs to exist before you run the script, just create an empty file (messages.pot in /messages [alongside /protected] by default).

_da.

an indirect way is to transform PHP files to PO files, and then transform PO files to PHP files :

http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php?/topic/2211-message-translation-into-po/page__gopid__28458&#entry28458

Maybe adapting my script to darkangel’s one we could get something nice.

Edit 11-11-2009: Recover the link