Translation Template Generator function in Frog
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For those interested in helping out with translating Frog: Starting from Frog release 0.9.5, a new Translation Template Generator function will be available to translators. This function will generate a template with all texts that are translatable in Frog or a plugin. To use this function:
For those who can’t wait until the release of Frog 0.9.5, this function was added in SVN revision 260 (http://code.google.com/p/madebyfrogs/source/detail?r=260) |
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Great! I will add a danish translation as soon as this is realeased. |
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@mvdkleijn – I just installed a bleeding-edge hot-from-SVN Frog 0.9.4.r285 on localhost. That “Help us translate Frog” thing is … well … kind of awesome! :) Does it meant that current i18n files will need to be converted to the new format that (e.g.) “Create core template” file appears in? |
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The reason I created the feature is because the current system is very labor intensive to keep up-to-date. For the new system to be the easiest to keep up-to-date, you would have to use something like the diff utility (or “beyond compare” on windows) to highlight changes between the new and old versions. So: yes.. to be most effective, we’ll have to update the layout of existing i18n files to the new format. I’ve already done this for the file manager plugin by the way. |
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I’d be more than happy to update my Pinger plugin too, what are the requirements? |
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@mtylerb Not a lot. Basically, if you have any translatable text, the translation template generator will automatically detect it if the plugin is installed on the filesystem. So you: 1. Make translatable text by using: 2. Add an empty directory to the root of your plugin called “i18n”. That’s it. Any translations you get from people should be called “nl-message.php” where the nl bit is the language code. That file should be placed in your plugin’s i18n directory. |
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Ahhh, ok, I created a file en-message.php.template with all the translatable text in it. Easy enough for others to use, and similar to what I found in one of the core plugins. If your system will find it on it’s own, then great. I’ll leave it as it is for now. :-) |
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The new system means en-message.php.template is deprecated. It has been removed from SVN for the Frog core. The new system scans all php and view files for strings based on the |
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Great, I’ll remove the deprecated file after release! You guys are doing great! |