I'm developing a Zend Framework 2 application an having a problem with translations. Actually in the view scripts a can use the view helper Translate
. Since I defined "translate" as a source keyword in Poedit ([Poedit menu] -> Catalogue -> Properties... -> Source keywords
) the strings are identified by the tool and added to the tranlation list.
But there are also some strings at other places, where I cannot use the/a view helper, e.g. in form classes or in the navigation. How should this be managed?
Some ideas:
Create a file with a list of such strings. Example: We create files navigation.i18n
, forms.i18n
etc. (or just one file), define there all strings we need in the common Poedit syntax we added to the Source keywords
list (e.g. with translate
: translate('my label foo'), translate('my label bar')
etc.), and finally add i18n
as a source path ([Poedit menu] -> Catalogue -> Properties... -> Source paths
). We also can use an extension, that is already defined as a 'Source paths'.
A class, that provides one (static) method translate(...)
without any functionality. Example: Instead of 'label' => 'foo'
we use 'label' => \MyNamespace\Util\Translator::translate('foo')
I think, the second appoach is cleaner, and I like more. I don't need to write my key sring twice and to hold in the head, what is already translated / updated. But maybe there are better ideas?
Just add keyword _
to Poedit ([Poedit menu] -> Catalogue -> Properties... -> Source keywords
). Then instead of a label use function _
with this label.
For example change
'options' => array(
'label' => 'Username',
),
to
'options' => array(
'label' => _('Username'),
),
and in Poedit update Catalog From Sources. That's it -- now you have your label in Poedit.
I still do not really understand where your problem lies :S From everything i can tell, you're trying to translate the output of a Model/Entity. This is a typical concern of the View!
If the main concern is "How to get all those Model-Output into PoEdit?", then all i can tell you is: either manually or to implement DB-Translation...
Injecting the ServiceManager into basically everything following this syntax of getServiceConfig()
return array( 'factories' => array(
'my-service' => function ($sm) {
$class = new ServiceClass();
$class->setServiceManager($sm);
return $class;
}
));
In the above example $class
can pretty much be everything. A Model/Entity, a TableGateway or whatever you desire.
If you build your form in a different way, like so:
$name = new \Zend\Form\Element('name');
$name->setLabel('Your name');
$name->setAttributes(array(
'type' => 'text'
));
$this->add($name);
( http://framework.zend.com/manual/2.0/en/modules/zend.form.quick-start.html )
Then you can register "setLabel" as keyword in poedit, and it will pick up the label-text for translation.