Smarty xgettext

A command line utility to extract translations source strings from Smarty templates to a PO-Template (.pot) file.

This utility will scan templates for {_T string=""} placeholders for translation strings and output a .pot file (.po template).

Features:

• scan files and directories recursively,
• include original string location,
• supports plurals {_T string="singular" plural="plural"},
• supports contexts {_T string="string" context="mycontext"},
• supports comments {_T string="string" comment="Explanation"}
• supports domains {_T string="string" domain="mydomain""}, {_T string="singular" plural="plural" domain="mydomain}, ...

Usage:

./vendor/bin/smarty-xgettext -o smarty.pot <filename or directory> <file2> <...>

find templates -name '*.tpl.html' -o -name '*.tpl.text' -o -name '*.tpl.js' -o -name '*.tpl.xml' | xargs ./vendor/bin/smarty-xgettext -o smarty.pot

If a parameter is a directory, the template files within will be parsed, recursively.

If you want to combine Smarty translations with your PHP ones, you can combine results with the msgcat command:

./vendor/bin/smarty-xgettext.php -o smarty.pot /path/to/source/templates
xgettext /path/to/source/php --keyword=_T --output=php.pot
msgcat -o project.pot --use-first php.pot smarty.pot

Developing

1. clone this repository
2. get composer
3. install composer dependencies: php composer.phar install
4. start using it: php bin/smarty-xgettext

Initially based on tsmatry2c. Original project (which seems not maintained) was using Smarty blocks while Galette relies on a function.