I'm trying to internationalize a CakePHP 3 application using cake i18n extract. All the texts coming from src folder are translated fine, but I have some text that I put inside config/bootstrap.php but those don't get translated even though I placed them inside the double underscore function __('My text') and I also generated the translation files in src/Locale folder (the same way I did for the other texts that work.
Any idea why my texts in config/bootstrap.php won't get translated?
Thanks in advance for any help
They do not show up because by default the extract task only looks in the src folder. When running the task it will ask you from what paths to extract, and it should only list the src folder by default.
You can either add your custom paths interactively in the shell when it asks you for the folders that should be looked up, or you can use the paths option to define them in beforehand, like:
bin/cake i18n extract --paths /var/www/app/config,/var/www/app/src
When doing so may also want to use the output option to specify the output path, as the task will use the first path as the root for output, ie with the above paths it would put the files in config/Locale instead of src/Locale. Alternatively you can switch the paths, but then the messages from the config folder files would appear at the bottom of the .pot file.
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