[wp-hackers] Automatic textdomain append for plugins

[Nikolay Bachiyski]

2008/3/11, Jacob Santos <wordpress at santosj.name>:
> Nikolay Bachiyski wrote:
>  > Although I am a strong i18n advocate, plugin internationalization[0]
>  > has always driven me back, because I had to add textdomain to every
>  > gettext call.
>  >
>  > Developers, they say, are lazy, so I thought of a way not to do this
>  > any more. The result was the add-textdomain.php script:
>  >
>  > php add-textdomain.php shareadraft.php shareadraft
>  >
>  > This call adds 'shareadraft' as a last argument to all gettext calls
>  > in shareadraft.php and prints the modified php file on standard
>  > output. It makes sure it doesn't add the argument twice, so it is good
>  > for incremental usage.
>  >
>  > The script is available in the wordpress0i18n repo:
>  >
>  > http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/tools/trunk/add-textdomain.php
>  >
>  > Happy hacking,
>  > Nikolay.
>  >
>  > [0] http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin#Internationalizing_Your_Plugin
>
>
> Regex would have been faster and less prone to bugs. However, in all
>  fairness, I've yet to have a problem with tokenizing functions. It is
>  just classes which give me problems.

Parsing PHP code using regular expressions is the same as parsing XML
using regular expressions -- a matter of preference. In this case the
tokenzier worked better for me and took me much less time to write.

Happy hacking,
Nikolay.