Not retrieving string

[Beee4life]

I first had all my translatable converted into labels, so I could put all the string in PHP so they would be recognised.

When I found this plugin, I installed it by command line(I think globally) and it worked, because I changed all my labels back to translatable twig strings but somewhere something must have gone wrong because PoEdit can't seem to pick up one single string from my templates anymore.

I have now installed it globally as well as locally in a project's composer.json file. I set up Twig in Poedit according to your instructions.

The command I used to extract translations is /Users/username/HTML/project-folder/vendor/bin/twig-gettext-extractor --sort-output --force-po -o %o %C %K -L PHP --files %F

I set up my templates files according to this explanation.

I first added export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin" to .bashrc. I then read somewhere you should never add stuff to bashrc but to bash_profile instead so I tried both options, but I don't seem to notice a difference.

Can it be that something in my bash_profile is conflicting ? See this screenshot of my bash_profile.

I have spent the entire afternoon on it and I'm literally stumped... I don't know anymore where to look.

I hope you can provide some help because I'm working a lot more with Twig and this would save me a lot of time as you can understand.

[Beee4life]

Maybe this info helps. When i ran twig-gettext-extractor from /usr/local/bin I got this error.

[umpirsky]

Here is one idea. You can try to debug (log) command here then run it from terminal and see what happens, troubleshoot etc..

[Beee4life]

Thanks, I appreciate the answer, but I don't understand what you mean exactly. I do use terminal for some things, but here I don't know what you mean.

[umpirsky]

I meant add file_put_contents('path_to_file.txt', $command,) in https://github.com/umpirsky/Twig-Gettext-Extractor/blob/master/Twig/Gettext/Extractor.php#L77 then run command found in path_to_file.txt from terminal to see what happens.

[Beee4life]

Thanks for the pointer. I added it to my project files, but there was no difference and I couldn't find an output file.

I'd like to remove the global installation and then just try the local version. I already removed it from /usr/local/bin and symfony, twig and umpirsky from .composer/vendor. Is that 'enough' ?

If not can you help me with clearing it so I can start fresh with a local version ?

[umpirsky]

@Beee4life Just copy https://github.com/umpirsky/Twig-Gettext-Extractor/blob/master/twig-gettext-extractor where you want it to be (e.g. bin directory) and use it from there. You still need vendors.

[Beee4life]

I used this command on terminal again

$ sudo wget https://github.com/umpirsky/Twig-Gettext-Extractor/releases/download/1.2.0/twig-gettext-extractor.phar -O /usr/local/bin/twig-gettext-extractor
$ sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/twig-gettext-extractor

I removed it from my project but now I'm without the vendors.... How can I get them back :( I expected they would be reinstalled but no luck....

[umpirsky]

Just install it with composer.

[Beee4life]

I added it to my project with composer require umpirsky/twig-gettext-extractor.

I added the Twig processor with the following command: /Users/Me/HTML/sitename/vendor/bin/twig-gettext-extractor --sort-output --force-po -o %o %C %K -L PHP --files %F

If I click update from sources, it indexes, doesn't show Twig translations but also I don't get an error or so.

I'm really stumped what to do...

[umpirsky]

Debugging like described in https://github.com/umpirsky/Twig-Gettext-Extractor/issues/50#issuecomment-263827023 will give you more info.

[Beee4life]

Like this ?

$error = 0;
$output = system($command, $error);
file_put_contents( 'output.txt', $command );
if (0 !== $error) {

Sorry for my non-understanding, but would really like to fix this. I appreciate your help.

I used it as above.. but I can't find any file named output.txt.

[umpirsky]

@Beee4life Use absolute path, just to be sure you are looking at right location, also make sure to set write privileges.

[Beee4life]

use it like this ? file_put_contents( '/Users/Beee/html/project/output.txt', $command );

Can you confirm these setting are good in my Twig processor ??

This is the full setting of the extractor since it's partially out of view: /Users/Me/HTML/sitename/vendor/bin/twig-gettext-extractor --sort-output --force-po -o %o %C %K -L PHP --files %F

[umpirsky]

@Beee4life Yes, you can find setup instructions on https://github.com/umpirsky/Twig-Gettext-Extractor#setup.

[Beee4life]

i didn't think I did the setup wrong.. but just checking...

To set read/write/execute privileges/rights do I use this sudo chmod r+w /Users/Beee/html/project/output.txt ?

[umpirsky]

I would use sudo chmod a+w /Users/Beee/html/project/output.txt

[Beee4life]

Thanks for all your help but I made the decision to move all the translation strings to a php file, which can be indexed and I include all strings through a twig value.

Like this $context['label_saturday'] = __( 'Saturday', 'text-domain' ); I then echo it in my template as {{ label_saturday }}.

Since I already knew this worked I switched back to this, also looking to the future, to prevent other editors from having the same issue. I got too frustrated with it and wanted to fix it :)

This might not be the best solution but it does the trick.

[umpirsky]

@Beee4life You can also generate PHP files from your twig templates, see http://twig.sensiolabs.org/doc/extensions/i18n.html#extracting-template-strings

[Beee4life]

Closing this issue since I bought Poedit Pro, which now handles Twig/Timber.

[umpirsky]

Wow, didn't know there is a Pro version. Good to know!

[Beee4life]

It costs 30 bucks or so, but it is sooooooooo worth it. See https://poedit.net/pro.

No disrespect to your plugin of course but native code almost always wins it from 'external' code.

[umpirsky]

Sure, they know their tool. :)