Zend Translate Poedit and the Translation Context

Question

is there a way to use the "context" or "msgctxt" in Zend_Translate when I call the method $translator->translate('My String') ?

I need to classify the item to be translated to a specific context for instance:

Customer Administration
Shopping Cart
Order Administration

I need to use the contexts to solve ambiguities between the translation items.

At the moment I am using the PoEdit software and Zend_Translate to translate my project.

Thanks

Matteo Tassinari · Answer 1 · 2013-11-29T07:43:58.913

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I was searching this too, and it would seem that Zend_Translate does not support translation context.

You could try to extend the main Zend_Translate class and implement the translation context as some kind of prefix that is automatically used together with the sentence or terms to be translated, for example:

$translate->translate($context, $sentence);

would be internally managed as

parent::translate("$context|$sentence");

and

$translate->translate($context, array($singular, $plural, $num));

would be

parent::translate(array("$context|$singular", "$context|$plural", $num));

but this would require to have the string with the prefixed $context in your translation sources.

edited Nov 29 '13 at 07:43

answered Nov 28 '13 at 14:49

Matteo Tassinari

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Salve Matteo, are you sure? – Michelangelo Nov 28 '13 at 17:39
I am pretty sure, what you can do is make sure to use some kind of prefix in your messages so that they will be guaranteed to be different for each context. – Matteo Tassinari Nov 28 '13 at 19:12
it's an idea, but you will lose the normal way to use of the Zend_Translate. maybe can we extend the class? – Michelangelo Nov 29 '13 at 07:02
unfortunatelly I have to handle a big project and it is really difficult handle/change all the translation items. – Michelangelo Nov 29 '13 at 20:33
Then you'll have to look elsewhere.. Perhaps ZF2? – Matteo Tassinari Nov 29 '13 at 21:14

Zend Translate Poedit and the Translation Context

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