civistrings

civistrings is the string extractor for CiviCRM core and CiviCRM extensions. It scans PHP, Smarty, JS, and partial HTML files for references to the ts() function -- and generates a list of strings using gettext's POT file format.

Requirements

• PHP 7.4+
• Composer (http://getcomposer.org)

Download: Single Executable (PHAR)

civistrings is distributed in PHAR format, which is a portable executable file (for PHP). It should run on most Unix-like systems where PHP 5.3+ is installed.

Simply download civistrings and put it somewhere in the PATH, eg

sudo curl -LsS https://download.civicrm.org/civistrings/civistrings.phar -o /usr/local/bin/civistrings
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/civistrings

To upgrade an existing installation, re-download the latest civistrings.phar.

Download: Git + Composer

To download the source tree and all dependencies, use git and composer, e.g.

git clone git://github.com/civicrm/civistrings.git
cd civistrings
composer install

The main executable is bin/civistrings. You may execute that file directly, or add the bin/ folder to PATH, e.g.

export PATH=/home/myuser/civistrings/bin:$PATH

Usage

## Scan all recognizable files under "myfolder/"
civistrings -o myfile.pot myfolder

## Scan all *.js files
find -name '*.js' | civistrings - -o myfile.pot

Development

For a full set of development and testing activities, you will need:

• git
• composer
• box
• phpunit

TIP: If you use nix-shell, it will provide php, git, composer, box, phpunit8, and phpunit9.

Testing

Tests are based on a series of example files (e.g. ./examples/ex1.php and the corresponding ./examples/ex1.pot).

To run the tests, simply call your favorite instance of phpunit.

Build

To build a new copy of civistrings.phar from source, install git, composer, and box and run:

git clone git://github.com/civicrm/civistrings.git
cd civistrings
composer install
php -dphar.readonly=0 `which box` build