diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index 9bffddc900..e1cc900570 100644
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -6094,3 +6094,10 @@ David  3 Aug 2008
     client/
         file_xfer.C
         http_curl.C,h
+
+Rytis  4 Aug 2008
+    - developer tools: a script to build en.po from PHP files to ease
+        translation. Usage: build_po.pl [PROJECT_PATH]
+    
+    tools/
+        build_po.pl
diff --git a/tools/build_po.pl b/tools/build_po.pl
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..11f99b7fb4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/build_po.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+my $path = $ARGV[0];
+if ($path eq "") {
+    die "Usage: build_po.pl [PROJECT_PATH]";
+}
+system("xgettext --omit-header --directory=".$path."/html/inc -o en.po --keyword=tra -L PHP --no-location ".$path."/html/inc/*");
+system("xgettext --omit-header --directory=".$path."/html/user -j -o en.po --keyword=tra -L PHP --no-location ".$path."/html/user/*");
+system("xgettext --omit-header --directory=".$path."/html/project -j -o en.po --keyword=tra -L PHP --no-location ".$path."/html/project/*");
+
+my @timedata = localtime(time);
+my $header = "";
+$header .= "# Language: English (International)\n";
+$header .= "# FileID  : \$Id\$\n";
+$header .= "msgid \"\"\n";
+$header .= "msgstr \"\"\n";
+$header .= "PO-Revision-Date: ".($timedata[5]+1900)."-".($timedata[4]+1)."-".$timedata[3]." ".$timedata[2].":".$timedata[1]."\n";
+$header .= "Last-Translator: Generated automatically from source files\n";
+$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
+$header .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n";
+$header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n";
+$header .= "X-Poedit-SourceCharset: utf-8\n";
+$header .= "\n\n";
+
+my $content = "";
+open (IN, "en.po");
+while (my $line = <IN>) {
+    $content .= $line;
+}
+close(IN);
+open (OUT, ">en.po");
+print OUT $header;
+print OUT $content;
+close(OUT);