Magento2: i18n lacks option to collect only frontend phrases

[kandrejevs]

We have developed store with 3 languages- sk_SK, hu_HU, cs_CZ. Problem is that i18n:collect-phrases from root collects over 8000 strings including ones from adminhtml. We want only to translate frontend strings and leave backend in en_US locale. This can be achieved by creating csv file for every single module running command only on view/frontend directory. But that is time consuming.

Proposition: Add option to i18n:collect-phrases command, to exclude view/adminhtml directories and xml files that contains translatable strings for backend.

Here I played around a bit and made a small script that scans through app/code, theme and vendor folders, searches for base or frontend directory in view directory, translates it and in the end creates 2 csv files for comparison. in my case only frontend phrases are 770 vs 10 000 all phrases.

https://gist.github.com/kandrejevs/72dcc1cfd9841e3a646ffe1c23c73801

[piotrekkaminski]

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[kamorana]

If anyone else is looking for an answer for that. n98-magerun has a directory parameter. With that you can choose the directory to scan.

$ n98-magerun2.phar i18n:collect-phrases --skip-config vendor/amasty -o lang/lang.csv

[hostep]

@kamorana: please don't spread incorrect information, magerun2 inherits the i18n:collect-phrases command from bin/magento and adds no new functionality on top. The optional directory argument is also available in bin/magento i18n:collect-phrases.