Thanks for your suggestion, but is there any way to accomplish this without
changing the cake core?
Lapinski
Julien Buratto-5 wrote:
>
>
> I thought that this could interest someone else.
>
> If you want to be able to translate strings which contains dynamic
> data such:
> "Hello, my name is Julien" where "Julien" is a name, you could do
> this:
>
> sprintf(__("Hello, my name is %s",true),"Julien");
>
> and your translation string would be "Hello, my name is %s" which is
> easy to translate.
> The issue with that is that it's absolutely not handy to use in views.
>
> What I liked to have was a function where I could pass values, such
> as:
>
> __("Hello, my name is %s and I'm %d years old",true,array("Julien",
> 34));
> expected result:
> Hello, my name is Julien and I'm 34 years old.
>
> Id order to achive this I have changed the cake/basics.php file where
> the __ function is located, basic steps are:
> - add a third parameter to the function __ in order to support the
> array of values
> - use the vsprintf to pass an array of values to the sprintf string
> - evaluate if there are any value passed otherwise use the older
> behaviour
>
> Result is very simple and looks clean to me:
>
> /**
> * Returns a translated string if one is found; Otherwise, the
> submitted message.
> *
> * @param string $singular Text to translate
> * @param boolean $return Set to true to return translated string, or
> false to echo
> * @return mixed translated string if $return is false string will be
> echoed
> * @link http://book.cakephp.org/view/693/__
> */
> function __($singular, $return = false,$values=array()) {
> if (!$singular) {
> return;
> }
> if (!class_exists('I18n')) {
> App::import('Core', 'i18n');
> }
>
> if ($return === false) {
> if (count($values)>0) echo
> vsprintf(I18n::translate($singular),
> $values);
> else echo I18n::translate($singular);
> } else {
> if (count($values)>0) return
> vsprintf(I18n::translate($singular),
> $values);
> else return I18n::translate($singular);
> }
>
>
> >
>
>
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