Yii Multilangual App, Not I18N Thing...

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi

I googled for "Yii multilangual" topics, but I realized that my case may not be i18n thing… or correct me. What I need in my application to be translated are:

  • models attribute labels (values stored in [Model].php files)

  • values in dropdown lists (values strored in database) - not shown here

  • some other strings stored in php files (breadcrumbs labels, actions labels, some plain text)

  • buttons’ labels (“create”, “save” in English, I need button labels in other languages).

How would you recommend me making my app 2 languages? EN/PL

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When using CPhpMessageSource you can split your message files into different files:

For example:

protected/messages/pl/ labels.php and app.php

In the labels.php you add all the stuff for translating models (labels…), for example:




 public function attributeLabels() {

    return array(

         'Phone'=>Yii::t('labels','Phone'),

           ....

 }

If you want, you can create an extra messagefile for each model (contact.php,user.php,product.php …) instead of one labels.php

All other stuff you can add to the app.php and call


Yii::t('app','Save')

.

If you find a translation in the yii or zii core (see framework/messages/pl zii.php or yii.php) you can use this:


Yii::t('zii','Update')

It depends on you how many different messagesfiles you want to handle.