Thanks for your input, Russ.
I haven't used i18n much but I've taken over a CI project that uses
keys rather than full sentences.
I guess the benefit I was looking at is maintenance of the
dictionaries, but I'll bear your advice in mind.
Tom
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:48 PM, rooster (Russ) <russmon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Apr 30, 7:37 pm, Tom Haskins-Vaughan <t...@templestreetmedia.com>
> wrote:
>> I've been thinking about using 'keys' instead of full sentences:
>>
>> echo __('layout.greeting');
>>
>> But is this an acceptable/symfony way to do it?
>>
>>
>
> Symfony won't tell you off if you do, it's up to you. There are pros
> and cons really...
>
> The biggest "con" is that you have no fallback translation, so you may
> find someone looking at some language with "homepage.welcomemessage"
> instead of the default which you would probably have written in
> English. This means you also have to create an English trenslation,
> which you wouldn't have to do if your base strings were English in the
> first place. Another potential downside is with reusability. Depending
> on your implementation you may have "loginform.submitbutton" and
> "registrationform.submitbutton" which will take up two spaces in your
> translation file whereas otherwise they both would have been covered
> by __("Submit"). This has a customisation advantage (which you could
> also use catalogues for), but a reusability disadvantage, so it's
> really down to your architecture.
>
> Just weigh it up and do what fits best for your needs - it's not a
> "best practice" issue in my opinion, just a design decision.
>
> Russ.
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:45 AM, rafaelgou <rafael...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > You can simply user:
>> > _('mainPage.linkToLogin' )
>> > in your code.
>>
>> > But if you want to be more explicit about non translated strings (warn
>> > users about non translated strings), why can't use prefix/suffix as we
>> > can see in docs:
>>
>> >http://www.symfony-project.org/reference/1_4/en/05-Factories#chapter_...
>>
>> > []'s
>>
>> > Rafael Goulart from Brazil
>>
>> > On 30 abr, 06:27, "Daniel Kucharski" <dan...@inspiran.be> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>>
>> >> Is it possible to use technical names such as 'loginForm.sendButton' or
>> >> 'mainPage.linkToLogin' instead of the actual text for the default culture
>> >> in any view template and have it translated through I18n based upon the
>> >> culture?
>>
>> >> Kind regards,
>>
>> >> Daniel
>>
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