Hi Malcolm, Thanks for the info. It'll save me a lot of time, now that I know where to look.
Aaron On Aug 30, 1:03 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 12:57 -0700, Aaron wrote: > > Hi, I'm working on a non-English site and need to replace the > > validation messages from ModelForm (e.g. 'This field is required.') > > What are some approaches that I can take? > > All those strings should already be translated. They're defined in > django/forms/fields.py and you can see they're all marked for > translation. So providing you are using the LocaleMiddleware (or some > other way of setting the locale), the messages will appear naturally in > the active locale for each viewer. > > If you want to replace/change the messages entirely, you need to replace > them on the instances of the field classes. This would require some > poking about under the hood for ModelForms, but should be possible. For > normal forms, you can pass in an error_messages dictionary when you > specify the form field that controls the messages. Again, have a look at > django/forms/fields.py for how the default setup is done. > > Regards, > Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
