Changing Language

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

I am a newbie to Yii and am in the process of developing a multilingual (English and French) website.

I tried what was suggested in the first post here:

[post='http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php?/topic/6137-example-of-changing-language/ ']http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php?/topic/6137-example-of-changing-language/ [/post]

It works exactly as intended (the French text is echoed) as long as I use


echo Yii::t('blog','Active record class "{class}" does not have a scope named "{scope}".');

in protected/views/layout/main.php. However, if I use the same line of code in a view, I get the English code instead. Furthermore, in the view, if I do


echo Yii::app()->getLanguage();

I get ‘en_us’.

Shouldn’t using


Yii::app()->setLanguage($lang);

in protected/views/layout/main.php affect the language in the view?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Note: I understand that if I want the user’s language to apply to there entire session I will need to store it in a session. For the moment, though, I am only trying to deal with one page load.

2

No, the view is rendered before the layout.

/Tommy

3

So where would be the best place to set the language then? It doesn’t seem very practical to have code to set it in each view.

4

You can change language e.g. in a controllers init method or in a base controller like in this wiki. Gii will generate a base controller named Controller in the protected/components folder.

/Tommy