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Asked: 2026-06-01T13:28:28+00:00

I have a Drupal 7 site and need to output a small calendar control

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I have a Drupal 7 site and need to output a small calendar control written in PHP.
It outputs a month name and table with days. Table has a header with week day names:
‘Mon’, ‘Tue’.

I need to output this with the current site language selected in Drupal. What’s the best way of doing this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    In Drupal the function used to translate strings is t().

    When you enable a language that is not English, the literal strings passed to t() are replaced with the translation available in the translation files. If there isn’t a translation for the weekday short names, then on admin/config/regional/translate/translate you can add the translations.

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    As the translation system is implemented in Drupal, it works only when the string passed to t() is a literal string. If the module is calling the function passing one of the following arguments, the string is not translatable.

    • the concatenation between two or more strings (t('This is a' . 'string that is not translatable'))
    • the content of a variable (t($text_to_translate))
    • the result of a function (t(get_string(STRING_ID_ERROR_MESSAGE)))

    If the module is hosted on drupal.org, then it can use the translation services provided from http://localize.drupal.org.

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