Internationalization - return a string using onMissingTranslation?

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

I’m struggling with an internationalization problem. I have set up an array in /messages/en/lang.php in which I fill with the english translation.

Now I have a huge database and it’s quite a struggle to get it all translated so I’d like the words not defined in the array of /messages/en/lang.php to run through the Bing translate api I have set up.

I read in the docs about the possibility of using the onMissingTranslation method, but it seems to be unable to return a value to be used instead.

I have set up the config to use the onMissingTranslation:




'messages' => array(

	'onMissingTranslation' => array('MissingTranslation', 'bingTranslate'),

)

This is not working but it shows what I would like to do. I would like to return the translated sting.




class MissingTranslation

{

    public function bingTranslate($event)

    {

        // ... translate by bing

        

        return $translatedText;

    }

}

Is there any way to get this to work or is there an alternative?

Thanks!

2

CPhpMessageSource is raising an event when the message isn’t found, which you should be able to intercept in order to perform the translation. I haven’t used events much, but if you do intercept it, I believe you can set the $event->message property to specify the translated string.

3

Thanks! I realise this is is mainly for logging this missing words, yet I can’t seem to find a better alternative to do this. Any ideas maybe?

This seems to work though. Thank you.

4

I don’t see any reason not to do it this way. It would probably be a good idea to log the missing translation as well though. If you weren’t intended to be able to provide a message using this feature, it wouldn’t be made available as a property of the event.