but if I change “O компании” on “TEXT TEXT” all work good , please help me

$lang = $request->getParam(‘lang’, ”);
if(strtolower($lang) !== ‘en’ && strtolower($lang) !== ‘fr’)
$request->setParam(‘lang’, ‘en’);

May be replaced to

$lang = strtolower($request->getParam(‘lang’, ‘en’));

Translating works fine, but clicking on a link from youre menu sets the language back to ‘en’.

I came up with this solution (not the nicest one, but maybe someone has a better one):

frontController = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$router = $this->frontController->getRouter();

$language = $request->getParam(‘language’,”);

if($language !== ‘en’ && $language !== ‘nl’ && $language !== ‘de’ && $language !== ‘fr’ && $language !== ‘be’)
{
$request->setParam(‘language’,'en’);
}

$language = $request->getParam(‘language’);

switch($language)
{
case ‘en’:
$locale = ‘en_US’;
break;
case ‘nl’:
$locale = ‘nl_NL’;
break;
case ‘de’:
$locale = ‘de_DE’;
break;
case ‘fr’:
$locale = ‘fr_FR’;
break;
case ‘be’:
$locale = ‘nl_BE’;
break;
}

$setLanguage = new Zend_Locale();
$setLanguage->setLocale($locale);
Zend_Registry::set(‘Zend_Locale’, $setLanguage);

$translate = new Zend_Translate(‘gettext’, APPLICATION_PATH . ‘/languages/’. $locale . ‘.mo’ , $locale);
Zend_Registry::set(‘Zend_Translate’, $translate);

$router->removeDefaultRoutes();
$router->addRoute(
‘languagecontroller’,
new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(‘/:language/:controller/:action’,
array(‘language’ => $language,
‘controller’ => ‘index’,
‘action’ => ‘index’
)
)
);
}
}

Jon, you’re a great teacher.

I’m using XDebug

nice screencast – really helped me to got through ZF details.

can i ask what are you using to beautify var_dump() output?

It is well explained in documentation, so look for it.
Basically, if you initiate Zend_Translate before reading from xml, and register it in Zend_Registry, Zend_Navigation will find all translations automatically.
It (Zend_Navigation) will look for keys, like if you have in xml:
Generators
the key for translation is ‘Generators’. To simply put, it works out of the box.

http://blog.hackix.com/2010/01/configuring-poedit-for-zend-framework-projects/

<a href="url(
array(‘module’ => ‘admin’), ‘default’, true) ?>”>Administration

In this case default route doesn’t exist, so you need to change to:

<a href="url(
array(‘module’ => ‘admin’), ‘myRouteName’, true) ?>”>Administration

public function routeStartup(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)
    {
        //$this->_layout = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('Layout');
        // $this->_view = $this->_layout->getView();
         try{
            $i18n = Zend_Registry::get('i18n');
            $locale = $i18n['locale'];
            $lang =   $i18n['lang'];
        }
        catch(Zend_Exception $e){
            $locale = self::DEFAULT_LOCAL;
            $lang =   self::DEFAULT_LANG;
        } 

        $zl = new Zend_Locale();
        $zl->setLocale($locale);
        Zend_Registry::set('Zend_Locale', $zl); 

        $fileName = APPLICATION_PATH . '/configs/lang/'. $lang . '.php';
        if(!file_exists($fileName)){
            $fileName = APPLICATION_PATH . '/configs/lang/'. self::DEFAULT_LANG . '.php';
        }
        if(strpos($lang, '_') !== false){
            list($lang,$region)= explode('_',$lang);
        }
        $translate = new Zend_Translate('array', $fileName , $lang);
        Zend_Registry::set('Zend_Translate', $translate);
        Zend_Form::setDefaultTranslator($translate);
        $route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
            ':module/:@controller/:@action/*',
               array(
               'module'=>'default',
                'controller' => 'index',
                 'action'     => 'index'
               )
        ); 

        $this->_router->addRoute('default', $route);
    }
The trouble is with default module.
it works with 

en
default/live/write
it
default/dalvivo/scrivi
en
admin/login
it
admin/logati 

but it doesn't work with
en
live/write
it
dalvivo/scrivi 

even if I have
'module'=>'default' 

Can you help me please ?
Bye.

PS
Sorry for the quite OT

Another great ZendCast on a topic that I’m faced with a lot here in Belgium. We need to provide web applications using English, Dutch, French and sometimes German (DFG being our official languages), so I’m dealing a lot with Zend Translate.

My approach is to use an array containing the lang param as key and the locale as value, to make a swift transition between languages and locales.
$availableLanguages = array (
‘en’ => ‘en_US’,
‘nl’ => ‘nl_BE’,
‘fr’ => ‘fr_BE’,
‘de’ => ‘de_BE’,
);

When setting up translations specifications, I already add them to Zend_Translate en using setLocale() method to switch languages.

// language given as param $lang
// if language is not available default to en
$lang = strtolower($lang);
if (!in_array($lang, array_keys($availableLanguages)) {
$lang = ‘en’;
}

$translate = new Zend_Translate(‘csv’, APPLICATION_PATH . ‘/configs/lang/en.csv’, ‘en_US’);
$translate->addTranslation(APPLICATION_PATH . ‘/configs/lang/nl.csv’, ‘nl_BE’)
->addTranslation(APPLICATION_PATH . ‘/configs/lang/fr.csv’, ‘fr_BE’)
->addTranslation(APPLICATION_PATH . ‘/configs/lang/de.csv’, ‘de_BE’);

$translate->setLocale($defaultLocale);

This way you can add more languages to your application as they become available, while maintaining a structured way of development.

This also caches very good, even if the translation source is a database, web service or any other kind of ‘expensive’ datasource.

Hope this works great for you all.

Michelangelo

I am building menus for navigation view helper from XML config file. ZF then creates links in menu only for default language (in this case en, because it is set as default lang in routes).

So if I switched from ‘en’ to ‘pl’ polish language i.e. http://example.com/pl/links I have menu with:

/en/contact
/en/another and ect.

I have to workaround this using:

if (preg_match(‘(en|pl)’, substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 1, 2), $match)) {
$lang = $match[0]; //LOOK HERE
$locale = new Zend_Locale($availableLangs[$lang]);
}
$langModuleControllerActionRoute = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
‘:lang/:module/:controller/:action/*’,
array(
‘module’ => ‘default’,
‘controller’ => ‘index’,
‘action’ => ‘index’,
‘lang’ => $lang //AND HERE
),
array (‘lang’ => $regex, ‘module’ => ‘[a-z]+’ )
);

@Aleksandar, umpirsky: vise nas je nego sto mislimo =)

Yeap that’s true in the case u mentioned. But all I am saying is, that it simply isn’t best practice, because if u analyze any opensource multilingual application u will discover the same concept which Jon used in this tutorial.

Well, maybe if your keys are not correct language phrases. But, for example, if you use gettext, then it’s pretty common to use poedit to parse templates, and automatically pick all strings under $this->tranlate() helper and easyer generate po files. In that case, english po file (if english is your source language) will have same keys and values, which is, you’ll agree a total waste of time and memorry. With this mechanism it’s much easyer to add multilang to existing non-multilang site as well.

#Serbian csv file
error_message;Popunite sva polja oznacena crvenom

#English csv file
error_message;Please fill all fields marked in red

Just one thing. Are you sure you need en.csv? You are translating en->en, that have no sense, right?

Imagine how much extra work you’ll have to maintain yet another unnecessary language.

One suggestion: for next series on Zend_Translate, what about the ” Approach”
http://devzone.zend.com/article/4513-Zend-Framework-and-Translation
I founded it very useful.