Load multiple languages with lexicon, decide that to parse afterwards

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OptimusCrime Reply #1, 11 years, 8 months ago

Hello.

We are making an app that is sending push notifications via Modx. We handle all our internationalization using lexicons. It worked perfectly up to right about now because we have a case where we have to load multiple changes when pushing the notifications, and parsing the message based on the language for each user.

Say user1 has lang = no and user2 has lang = en.

How to you make it possible to send fetch lexicon entries for both languages and then get the matching string? When I try to use it in my snippets, it always defaults to english.

// Loading
$modx->getService('lexicon', 'modLexicon');
$modx->lexicon->load('lang:notifications');

// Trying to parse (does not work)
$msg = $modx->lexicon('lang.title_newmessage', array('language' => $user_language));

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Mark Hamstra Reply #2, 11 years, 8 months ago

$modx->lexicon->load('language:namespace:topic')

should do the trick.. e.g.

$modx->lexicon->load('es:myapp:notifications');
$msg = $modx->lexicon('notification_newmessage');

Alternative, this should also work by specifying the language as the third param:

$msg = $modx->lexicon('notification_newmessage', array('param' => 'value'), 'es');

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OptimusCrime Reply #3, 11 years, 8 months ago

Ah, passing it as the third param was what I wanted. I also guess there is no built in way to load all languages for a given namespace? I guess I could just open the lexicon-directory for the namespace and find all languages and loop the load-method from there.

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OptimusCrime Reply #4, 11 years, 8 months ago

Btw, I solved it like this:

$languages = array_filter(glob($modx->getOption('core_path') . 'components/lang/lexicon/*'), 'is_dir');
foreach($languages as $full_lang_path) {
	$path_split = explode('/', $full_lang_path);
	$lang = $path_split[count($path_split) - 1];
    $modx->lexicon->load($lang . ':lang:notifications');
}