How to get (translatable) strings from specific domain with POEdit

Question

I have been trying for hours finding a way to setup POEdit so that it can grab the text from specific domain only

My gettext function looks like this:

function ri($id, $parameters = array(), $domain = 'default', $locale = null)

A sample call:

echo ri('Text %xyz%', array('%xyz%'=>100), 'myDomain');

I will need to grab only the text with the domain myDomain to translate, or at least I want POEdit to put these texts into domain specific files. Is there a way to do it?

I found several questions that are similar but the answers don't really tell me what to do (I think I'm such a noob it must be explained in plain English for me to understand):

How to set gettext text domain in Poedit?

How to get list of translatable messages

Answer 1

So I finally figured it out after days of searching, I finally found the answer here:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27691818

• xgettext recognizes context in strings, and gives a msgctxt field in the *.pot file, which is recognized by translation software as a context and is shown as such (check image of Pootle showing context below)

  • This can be done in 3 ways:

    1. String in code should be in the format _t('context','string'); and xgettext invocation should be in the form --keyword=_t:1c,2 (this basically explains to xgettext that there are 2 arguments in the keyword function, 1st one is context, 2nd one is string)
    2. String in code in the format _t('string','context'); and xgettext invocation should be in the form --keyword=_t:1,2c
    3. String in the code should be as _t('context|string') and xgettext invocation should be in the form --keyword=_t:1g

So to answer my own question, I added this to the "sources keywords" tab of Poedit:

ri:1,3c

ri is the function name, 1 is the location of the stringid, 3 is the location of the context/domain

Hope this helps someone else, I hate all these cryptic documents