Question

The internationalization process is not working.

I ran cake i18n export. After that I put the translations into the file “.po” in the folder app/locale/por/LC_MESSAGES/default.po..

I called the method beforeFilter() in the AppController Configure::write('Config.language', 'por');.

But the translation isn’t shown in __()-methods.

Answer 1

Here are some possible suggestions:

• Clear the Cake cache in PATH_YOUR_APP/tmp/cache. Delete the files in models and persistent, but not the directories itself. I believe persistent is where the localised strings are saved, but empty both to be sure.

• Do you override the beforeFilter in any of your controllers, other than the AppController? If so call parent::beforeFilter(); in the controller’s beforeFilter method, before processing other stuff, like so:

public function beforeFilter() {
  parent:beforeFilter();
  //Do stuff here
}

• How did you create the translation files? Is there a .mo file in the .po directory as well? I believe directly editing .po and .pot files is not recommended due to character encoding issues (but I could be mistaken). Poedit is a good tool for manipulating .po files, though it could be more robust.