Yii::t()

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

I have a doubt about Yii::t.

I know the standard way to declare a translation is for example for the file messages/pt-PT/main.php




return 

[

"Login here" => "Entrar"

];

If the app language is en-US it will display “Login here” if it’s pt-PT it will display “Entrar”.

But suppose I want the same phrase to have different translations in portuguese:


"Login" => "Entrar",

"Login" => "Iniciar sessão"

So what I thought was to create a en-US.php file with for example:


"login" => "Login",

"login2" => "Alternative login"

But it doesn’t work, it never reads from the en-US.php file and always outputs “login” and “login2”.

Why if the default language is en-US and I have a folder messages/en-US the files there are not used?

Thanks

2

I’m not quite sure what are you talking about. Mine works.

Default language (that is, when no language is set in config) seems to be just ‘en’.

PS.

Probably you meant ‘/en-US/main.php’ file?

3

I mean if you have a file "messages/en-US/main.php with:


"login" => "Login"

and "language" => "en-US" in main.php

Yii::t("main", "login")

will print

‘login’ when it should print ‘Login’

4

Hmm.

Maybe something’s wrong in your installation or config.

Mine looks like this:


'i18n' => [

    'translations' => [

        'app' => [

            'class' => 'yii\i18n\PhpMessageSource',

            'basePath' => '@app/messages',

        ],

        'label' => [

            'class' => 'yii\i18n\PhpMessageSource',

            'basePath' => '@app/messages',

        ],

    ],

],

So if I create messages/en-US/app.php and set language to en-US, all Yii::t(‘app’, ‘my_message’) are translated correctly.

5

Found it




     'i18n' => array(

            'translations' => array(

                'app*' => array(

                    'class' => 'yii\i18n\PhpMessageSource',

                    'basePath' => "@app/messages",

                    'sourceLanguage' => 'en-US',

                    'fileMap' => array(

                        'app' => 'app.php',

                        'app/common' => 'common.php',

                        'app/countries' => 'countries.php',

                        'app/menu' => 'menu.php'

                    )

                ),

            )

        ),

The problem was with "sourceLanguage", once I commented it, everything worked as expected.

Anyway, thanks for your help.