How to add the translations for cakephp libs files to by default.po file
for example
- months name
- day's name
- timeAgoInWords
i try to add strings to default.po manually
but everytime i update it from default.pot (using poedit)
the strings are gone.
please help me to solve it
it will fine to find solution by using separate .po file
i solve it
- create /app/views/dummy.ctp
- duplicate by coping the translation from cake\libs\view\helpers\time.ctp to dummy.ctp
- and cake i18n will add translations to default.pot
You can see the relevant strings for timeAgoInWords
at the end of TimeHelper::timeAgoInWords
. They're just normal translation strings along the lines of 'year'
, 'years'
, 'month'
, 'months'
etc, just put these translations into the general domain .po file.
There's one special case where a full date string may be printed like 'on 18/2/09'
. The "on" can be localized by localizing the string 'on %s'
, but the date format needs to be passed to the timeAgoInWords
function:
$this->Time->timeAgoInWords($time, array('format' => __('Y-m-d', true)));
The month names follow the same schema, just add translations for 'January'
, 'February'
, etc in your general domain translation file. Not quite sure where Cake outputs the day that would need to be translated though. Please elaborate.