How to convert .po to PHP array (Zend Framework) with Translate Toolkit?

Question

I am trying to use po2php to convert my .po file to Zend php translations array.

I am simply trying this: $ po2php translations.po translations.php, but this results in an error that I do not understand: po2php: warning: Couldn't handle input file translations.po: don't know what to do with input format .po, no template file.

I do not know what a template file is an why should I provide it?

UPDATE: I also tried $ po2php translations.po translations.php -t messages.pot, but this does not help me, it shows pretty much the same error: po2php: warning: Couldn't handle input file translations.po: don't know what to do with input format .po, template format .pot.

Answer 1

You could also try out the pear package File_Gettext. Read more here: https://github.com/pear/File_Gettext

The code would look like this (Not tested):

include_once 'File/Gettext/PO.php';

$poFile = new File_Gettext_PO();
$poFile->load('PATH_TO/translations.po');

print_r($poFile->strings);

$poFile->strings should contain the content of the po file as associative array. Next you need a function to output this array in a file. Take a look at the second answer here: Print array to a file