phpBB PO Converter

These shell scripts can extract the strings from the php files in language packs and create a single PO file.

You can then use the PO file to check for mistakes in many available tools that knows PO.

Screenshot

Running PO converter in a terminal.

With the PO file you can check the translation in tools like Virtaal.

Language packs

Can be found on [phpbb.com](https://www.phpbb.com/languages/] (also phpbb.com) If you run the all.sh script it will download the language packs for you so you dont have to do it manually

po.sh

Creates a single PO file.

Run "./po.sh -h" for usage.

Usage: ./po.sh [-a <first folder> -b <second folder>] [-c]
Extracts strings from two phpBB language packs
and combines the strings in a PO file.

-a <folder>    Content of unpacked language pack zip file
               (usually the source language which is british_english_[VERSION]
-b <folder>    Content of unpacked language pack zip file
               (usually the translation you work on e.g. danish_[VERSION]
               Source and translation should be the same version
-c             Delete the temporary files and folder
               (temp/, zip/, zipextracted/, po/)
-v             Version information

Example:

./po.sh -a british_english_3_2_2 -b danish_3_2_2

all.sh

Downloads 25 language pack zip files (those that are updated to phpBB 3.2.2), extracts them and uses po.sh to create PO files from all of them.

Example:

./all.sh

checkpo.sh

Checks the PO files created with all.sh

See what warning/error messages we can get. This we can use to improve the code or the language packs so it will hopefully give zero warnings/errors in the future versions

Tools

Here are some tools that can be used to check for errors in PO files

gettext
PyG3T
Toolkit
GUI tools:
Virtaal
Poedit
Qt Linguist

Permission to run files

chmod

If you get "command not found" or "Permission denied" you might need to run these commands before you can execute the files

sudo chmod +x po.sh all.sh checkpo.sh

Convert PO file back to PHP files

Question: Can i convert the PO file back to the PHP files? Answer: Nope.

Requirements

Packages your system needs to have installed for the shell scripts to work

php curl gettext ...(i will add more here when i find out what is needed to run the shell scripts)

Contribute

Feel free to help improve the code