File extractors to get translations

[AlexiZ]

Hello,

First of all, thank you for your work, I'm trying to get it working on a project and so far it's going well. I've found your bundle in a comment you made here.

I just wanted to understand something as I've not found it in the Symfony doc :

• translations keys are fetched from PHP and Twig files (as said in config file), so the config entry dirs is not meant to point directly at a translation folder like src/AppBundle/Resources/translations. Is that correct ?
• in that way, how can translations be filled from already written translations ? For example, I'm writting my translations in a YAML file in my bundle. Is there a config key to use those ?

Thank you.

[Nyholm]

Hey.
Thank you for this issue. It is probably more people that you having this confusion.

• The dirs config entry should point to your source code. Ie /src.
• The extracted translations keys are merged with the existing keys that is loaded by symfony. They are already in memory when we start to extract the new keys.

[AlexiZ]

I'm actually asking you about current translations in AppBundle\Yaml files because I'm having an issue with them : extracting translations with the command line generate empty xliff files, ie without any translation messages (but with all the keys, that's good).

[denrique88]

Hello,

I'm currently developping on an existing project and we'd like to use php-translation to make translations in english and german languages more easily than changing the texts in the YML files.

So, php-translation with edit-in-place and webui seems very promising !

But I'm having the same issue than AlexiZ : I extracted the translations from my code with the command app/console translation:extract and all the resulting translations in XLF files are empty...
However all the translations should be already filled in french language.

Is this an issue or a misconfiguration of my own ?