Using xgettext to extract language strings from PHP
Extracting language strings from PHP is best done woth xgettext… in order you are using the _(”) function to specify your text fragments.
Afterwards on the server you must run the following command to create a translatable *.po file which then can be eidtied using programs like poEdit:
find . -iname ‘*.php’ -exec xgettext –keyword=_ -j -o messages.po {} \;
