Change translation format in Craft CMS

Question

I'm trying to get my Craft translations to work with the translation management tool Phraseapp.

The standard format for translation-files in Craft CMS looks like this:

# de.php

return [ 
    'good_morning' => 'Guten morgen', 
    'KEY' => 'GERMAN_TRANSLATION_VALUE'
];

But this format is not supported by Phraseapp.

Is there a way to return json or yaml instead?

Answer 1

We used to use PhraseApp to manage Craft translations, but as of Craft 3, we don't anymore (everything is now on Github).

When we were using them, we wrote a quick PHP script that would take the PHP based translation file format Craft uses, parse them and convert them to a format that PhraseApp could use. Then there was another quick script that would reverse the process when we pulled them down.