Using Poedit with XAMPP

I am struggling for quite a while now to get into translation files with PHP's gettext() function and creating the files with Poedit. Poedit didn't come with a helpfile either and I tried lots of things found online but nothing works.. I am on Mac OSX with an XAMPP configuration.

on OSX my XAMPP dir is

/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/

inside this dir I created gettext.php with

<?php echo _("Hello W开发者_JS百科orld"); ?>

and the following folders:

/locale/
/locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/

With Poedit when I do > File > New Catalog

Language: Italian

Country: Italy

Charset: UTF-8

Source code charset: UTF-8

Base path: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/

Than I save default.po to /locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/

"Updating the catalog failed. Click on 'More>>' for details

13:04:10: Poedit did not find any files in scanned directories.
13:04:11: Entries in the catalog are probably incorrect.
13:04:11: Updating the catalog failed. Click on 'More>>' for details.

Poedit is partially strange like gettext itself. I've just tried and got the error message myself, because I forgot one crucial setting. Go into catalogue > options, and the paths tab, duplicate the base path into the path list. Poedit uses the base path for locating the .po files, I'd guess. The actual source files aren't found unless you set one of the (source?) paths. Then the menu entry catalogue > read from source files should be available as well.

For other reference: I saw the same cryptic message when I tried to update Javascript sources.

It turns out I didn't have the Javascript parser added to PoEdit. I fixed the problem by following these helpful steps:

how to generate po file from js file using poedit