Yii Translator Yii:t() For Large Text

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi to everyone

I want to use Yii translate system for large text so,

I don’t want to translate like that


Yii:t('filename','a very large text .... so large...');

but i want to use an identifier like that


Yii:t('filename','myidentify.1');

But with this approach the translate works only in other languages except the native language

(obviusly the Yii translate system recognize the identify as a normal text)

So how to achieve that?


Yii:t('filename','myidentify.1');

protected/messages/en/filename.php with code


return array('myidentify.1'=>'the large text');

protected/messages/el/filename.php with code


return array('myidentify.1'=>'ένα μεγάλο κείμενο');

Thanks in advance

2

you could set ‘native language’ to something none-existent, like ‘xx’. then all languages will be translated using this identifiers (and you should use identifiers everywhere)

3

Thanks redguy for the tricks :)

Is there way to do by that more "robust" way or this is the best way?

Is there way by parameter for t() function, like


Yii:t ('file','text_identifier','language')

?

if not exist then I will implement it by set the native language to none-existent as the redguy suggest :)

Thanks

4

Hi again

After of 6 months, I wondered again, if there is a robust and easy way to do that

so, I searched in tranlate yii files and Ι detected the forceTranslation attribute

so I had to set it to true

in protected/config/main.php I added in components region the below code


'components' => array(

'messages' => array( 

'forceTranslation' => true

),

),

Now, it is not nessesary to make trick to translate large text :)

5

nice find :) thanks for the tip.

6

Not sure what the problem is with setting sourceLanguage to something non-existent, it’s explained in this wiki article and works great :)

7

Thank for your post :)

I used this way for a long time (set sourceLanguage to non-existent) but seems to me something like trick!

Lets explain that in few words:

"if the text not found in the no-existent source language then translate it in current language"

I don’t know, it seems like trick and I used to avoid tricks as it is possible!