Question

I created a simple component in my Yii project and there is a text on it that needs to be translated using i18n feature of Yii

class MySimpleComponent{
   public static function WelcomeCurrentUser(){
       $wuser = Yii::t("lstrings","Welcome back ");
       $wuser .= Yii::app()->session['curuser']; 
       return $wuser;
   }
}

I invoke that small component function in one of my views.

echo MySimpleComponent::WelcomeCurrentUser();

but as i change the language in one of my controllers using the following code

Yii::app()->language = 'ja' //change language to japanese

the translation doesn’t work… I double check my i18n strings to ensure that messages are exact to each other and still doesn’t work.

this is my lstrings.php file

return array("Hello"=>"こんにちは",
             "Welcome back "=>"お帰りなさい",
);

Any ideas why the translation does not work? any solutions? thanks

Answer 1

Call

Yii::app()->language = 'ja'

before

echo MySimpleComponent::WelcomeCurrentUser();

Language translate will take effect as long as before Yii::t()