Problem
I had just set up a Poedit for a project at work and was trying to update the *.po file with new translations. It wasn’t finding a whole load of them.
After a while of poking around, it dawned on me that it was not looking in my phtml files. Simple enough, I just added *.phtml to the list of extensions in the parsers preference.
Then I receive a big long error message that xgettext didn’t know what phtml.
Solution
Add pthtml to your list of extensions
*.php;*.phtml
You also need to add ” -L php” to the end of your Parser command
xgettext --force-po -o %o %C %K %F -L php