gettext - translating .po files

Hi,

I'm trying to create multi-language web pages using 'gettext' with PHP
but am stuck alittle. I've searched the web without joy so I thought I'd ask.

My problem lies in between the .po and .mo files.
After using xgettext to extract the text strings into a .po file I 
don't know exactly how to translate that 'english' text.

How do I translate a .po file ?
I sure I'm missing something simple.

Here is a small example from a .po file:

# page1.php:3
msgid "Hello this is a web page"
msgstr ""

I understand this is my base or root .po file ( messages.po is full name ).
How do I go about translating the msgid string into the msgstr string ?

So far my thinking is once I've translated the msgid strings into the msgid
strings then I create my .mo ( messages.mo ) files.

Is that correct ?
Do I now need some other translating program so that I can actually turn
the English text into other language text ?

It feels like I'm missing one last tiny part to the puzzle.
Once I've understand this last part I'll be the happiest web developer
out there :-)

Thanks very much.
Cheers
Rudi.









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