Cakephp 3 - Plugin - translation file - not working

0
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Using Cake version 3.4.5 :

1) I've wrote a plugin :

/plugins/Accounting/

2) then, to create the pot file from the view files I run :

bin/cake i18n extract --plugin Accounting

3) this generates /plugins/Accounting/src/Locale/default.pot

But the translated text does not appear. My locale is es_AR, and I've tried to copy the file as :

/plugins/Accounting/src/Locale/accounting.pot

or

/plugins/Accounting/src/Locale/es_AR/default.pot

or 

/plugins/Accounting/src/Locale/es_AR/accounting.pot

Also tried to save the files as accounting.po, but nothing happens

But still not text is translated from the plugin views (it does work for the app's views).

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cakephppluginsinternationalization
Shouldnt you translate them into .po files then? – mark
Sorry I didn't mention that. I've also tried it with no results at all. – user1077915
I usually copied over the plugin PO files to the APP/src/Locale folder - and then it worked. – mark
Didn't work for me. By now the only way is to include the plugin's po file inside the default.po file of the main app. I'll keep trying. Thanks. Regards. – user1077915

1 Answers

4
votes

I've found it !!!

The problem was the file / directory permissions.

By default, cake i18n extract --plugin MyPlugin makes this :

  1. creates the src/Locale/ directory inside the plugin structure
  2. creates the template translation file default.pot instead of my_plugin.pot
  3. all these creations are made with mode 750 being the owner the linux user currently logged in ( not www-data )

So in order to make it work :

  1. change the permissions of the Locale structure to 755
  2. rename default.pot to my_plugin.po
  3. use __d( 'my_plugin', 'Text to be translated' )