Translation of form 'module.category'

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

I’ve a module called TranslationModule, which resides in protected/modules/translation folder. Snippet from config:




'import' => array(

        // Core

        'application.models.*',

        'application.components.*',


        // App

        'application.modules.user.models.*',

        'application.modules.user.components.*',

        'application.modules.translation.models.*',

        'application.modules.translation.components.*',

    ),

'modules' => array(

        'user',

        'translation',

    ),

Also, I’ve translation file: protected/modules/translation/messages/ru/translation.php

When I do


Yii::t('TranslationModule.translation', 'some string')

I get an error saying TranslationModule.php couldn’t be found for inclusion.

If I add to import section of config following line:


'application.modules.translation.*'

everything works fine. Is it mandatory? (This fact isn’t mentioned in docs but most likely I’m missing something).

2

Did someone meet this problem?

3

The reason is the next line in the CPhpMessageSource file (getMessageFile function):




$class=new ReflectionClass($moduleClass); // <<< Yii can't find TranslationModule class here.

I didn’t dive into sources, but I had a similar problem when I forgot a “Module” suffix in message category, so Yii couldn’t find a class. Modules’ translation is really not obvious in Yii. But can I ask what’s the benefit of using a module for translations?

4

I’m going to incapsulate all features in modules, so that modules can be reused in multiple sites. To do so, I need to distribute translations with module files. Also, I think mixing all translation files in ‘protected/messages’ is hard to manage, at least for me.

What I really don’t understand is how modules distributed through http://www.yiiframework.com/extensions/ are translated? Good example is yii-user extension which is translated into several languages. Translations reside in ‘messages’ folder, configuration needs to be altered to include module, his models and components, everything like I did.