gettext + PHP

[Jonas Koch Bentzen]

Hi,

This is not a bug, but I didn't really know which email address to write 
to... It would be great if xgettext could parse PHP files. In PHP files 
xgettext extracts all strings, a lot of which are not really strings to 
be translated. An example:

<?php
require("some/file.php");
set_error_handler("error");

if ("string" == $something) {
        echo gettext("Some text");
}
?>

In this case, xgettext extracts the following strings:

"some/file.php"
"error"
"string"
"Some text"

It should only extract the last one. All strings to be translated are 
encapsulated inside the function "gettext()" (which has an alias named 
"_()". In other words, xgettext should extract text from the functions 
in the following example:

gettext("Here's a string.");
_("Here's a string");
gettext('Here's another string');
_("And yet another one - this time with %s");

Hope you'll consider making that improvement : ) Thanks for making such 
a great program.

- Jonas Koch Bentzen