Gettext not working under local xampp

Hello
I have a problem.
Altough I got gettext working under a remote server environment, I have not got it working yet under a local XAMPP installation. I have made sure that gettext is enabled by going to http://localhost and looking into phpinfo.

The code is really simple:


<?
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" ); 
Header( "Location: http://www.arreglaordenador.com" ); 
?> 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php
$language="es_ES";
putenv("LC_ALL=$language");
setlocale(LC_ALL, $language);
bindtextdomain("messages", "./locale");
textdomain("messages");
print "<p>"._("This website is written in English")."</p>\
";
?>
</body>
</html>


The website display the original string “This website is written in English” instead of translating it into Spanish like it should according to the po file I wrote with poedit.
Any idea?
Thanks

Did you restart the server after enabling gettext?

Well, sorry, I just realized that the problem was not exactly like I described. The problem is that I have


<?
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" ); 
Header( "Location: http://www.arreglaordenador.com" ); 
?> 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php
$language="fr_FR";
putenv("LC_ALL=$language");
setlocale(LC_ALL, $language);
bindtextdomain("messages", "./locale");
textdomain("messages");
print "<p>"._("hi! This website is written in English.")."</p>\
";
?>
</body>
</html>

and no matter what string I set the variable $language with that gettext will always look for a translation in the folder locale\es_ES\LC_MESSAGES whether the language is Spanish (es_ES) or not. For example, in the above code, gettext will not look for the French translation as it should in
locale\fr_FR\LC_MESSAGES but it will look for the translation into the folder corresponding to Spanish language, that is to say, locale\es_ES\LC_MESSAGES.

Moreover, if gettext does not find the folder locale\es_ES\LC_MESSAGES then
it will display the string in the original language(English) even if $language equals “fr_FR” and at the same time there is a locale\fr_FR\LC_MESSAGES folder created and the corresponding messages.mo and messages.po files created in this folder.

I made sure that I re-run Apache and MySql under Xampp whenever I change anything in the code but it keeps having this behaviour anyways.

Do you have any idea about why only translations in .po files in the Spanish folder locale\es_ES\LC_MESSAGES are considered and not those translations corresponding to other languages and other folders?

Thanks in advance.