So, basically, using _() works only if gettext is installed and does nothing at all, so Zend_Form will handle the translations with its built in i18n support.

I personally love this unobtrusive way to let poedit recognise the strings. If you can’t rely on gettext being installed (which would be pointless since you’re using Zend_Translate) you can put this somewhere in your Bootstrap file (outside of any classes):

if (!function_exists(‘gettext’)){
function _($string) {return $string;}
}

Can convert common PHP files used for localisation into PO files.

Rémi

But I’m wondering why are you setting translated labels and descriptions manually in your form. Zend_Form allows you to set a default translator by Zend_Form::setDefaultTranslator($translate); (also zend validate) and all translate magic will happen automaticaly (errors, labels, etc — without descriptions — but see below).

I thinkt, that nice solution could be extending zend_from class into your own, where you can override default addElement method and set description and label based on field name. And then you have for example: label:login and desc:login.
unfortunately — automatic search for missing translation’s wont work as well in poedit then.

$translate->translate(array(‘Pronađen je %s auto oglas’, ‘Pronađeno je %s auto oglasa’, $count)), $count);

so they always go to obsolete strings?!

So why this one dissapears is a bit of a mystery to me.
How does your _initTranslate (or similar) look in your bootstrap?

function _($string) {
return Zend_Registry::get(‘Zend_Translate’)->_($string);
}

of course if you have php.exe in your PATH dir. However variable %~dp0 gives directory of the executing file (dir of the doctrine.bat in this case).

There’s a complication whit accents. To order my country list correctly in french I should do :

setlocale (LC_COLLATE, ‘fr_FR.UTF8’);
usort($countries, ‘strcoll’);

Thank you to answer my question.

I am using the 1.10.1 version.
I do initialize Zend_Translate but not in my bootstrap but in a routeShutdown function of a controller plugin. I do that because I choose the language from a parameter on the URL (they are like /project/en/controller/…).
I think that it is correctly installed and configured because if I use the setLabel function then my label is correctly translated.
But I would like to use your initialization method as I find more readable except that if I have to add this->getView()->translate(‘Username’), to each of my labels then it is no more easier to read !!

‘label’ => $this->getView()->translate(‘Username’),

by

‘label’ => _(‘Username’),

in my code but it generates an error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function _()

Where does your _() function comes from ?

Thanks.