How to translate the category names in the manager?

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intersel Reply #1, 8 years, 3 months ago

Hi,

Is there any way to translate the category names in the manager?

I investigated to do it with the help of a plugin using the 'OnResourceTVFormRender' to translate the category names of the TVs of a resource with no success...

<?php
/**
		set for event: OnResourceTVFormRender:
			'categories' => &$finalCategories,
            'template' => $templateId,
            'resource' => $this->resource->get('id'),
            'tvCounts' => &$this->tvCounts,
            'hidden' => &$hidden,

			
**/
$eventName = $modx->event->name;
switch($eventName) {
    case 'OnResourceTVFormRender':
                $lexiconname = empty($lexiconname)?'website':$lexiconname;

                $modx->getService('lexicon','modLexicon');
                $modx->lexicon->load($lexiconname.':default');

                foreach($categories as $id=>$aCategory)
                {
                        //translate category name
                        $aCategoryName = $modx->lexicon($aCategory['category']);

		/** the following line does not work :-(
		  the new values in $categories seams correct but when coming back to manager/controllers/default/resource/resource.class.php,
		  $finalCategories is not updated... 
		**/
                        $categories[$id]['category'] = $aCategoryName;
                }
        break;
}
return;

Thanks for any help!

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BobRay Reply #2, 8 years, 3 months ago

Try this:

$aCategoryName = $modx->lexicon($aCategory);

In your foreach loop, I $aCategoryName will contain the category name.

The OnResourceTVFormRender event accepts a return value, which IIRC in your plugin would have to be set in $modx->event->_output rather than a return statement, but it's hard to see how it would work since it looks like the return value must be an array and is used to set Smarty placeholders.

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intersel Reply #3, 8 years, 3 months ago

Hi Bob,
Actually, the translation is ok and the values are correctly set in the $categories array as expected.

As the $categories was a pointer, I thought that updating the array would be enough to the core (manager/controllers/default/resource/resource.class.php) to go ahead with my new values...

Anyway, your answer sounds to say that there is no "standard" procedure to translate the category names in the manager :-s

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BobRay Reply #4, 8 years, 3 months ago

There may be a "standard" procedure, but clearly I don't know what it is. wink

I have a feeling that there's a way to make the categories show up in the correct language using $modx->event->_output in the plugin, but it would take some serious trial-and-error work (for me anyway) to get it right.

It's also remotely possible that MODX would accept language tags ( [[%language_key]] ) as category names and translate them for you in the Manager using the current manager_language setting if you put the lexicon keys and values (in Manage -> Lexicons) in the core namespace under a topic that's loaded for the current manager page. I've never tried it.

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intersel Reply #5, 8 years, 3 months ago

I'll test&try these 2 leads... and will give you the feedbacks!
Thanks