How to override translations per instance/installation?

Question

We have a symfony 2 project which is provided on-premises. Now one client is unhappy with the terminology of the app and wants to change it.

I know we can override translations using (https://symfony.com/doc/2.7/bundles/override.html#translations). But of course we want to keep our source code clean, so we are looking for a method which doesn't affect our original code.

Is it possible to somehow define an additional translations-folder which can be excluded by .gitignore and override the default app/Resources/translations folder?

I want to add, that a fork of our project doesn't seem to be the right choice, since it would affect our development/deployment workflow.

Answer 1

If I understand correctly you need to edit translations in only one instance of your application.

Maybe you can use a Translation Bundle and store your keys into a Saas software. Have a look at https://github.com/php-translation/symfony-bundle this mays help you

Answer 2

I ended up creating a new bundle, CustomTranslationsBundle, where my client can place his custom translation files without affecting version control.

Pretty basic, and I should have thought about that before asking my question...