Translate Helper

The Translate view helper can be used to translate content. It acts as a wrapper for the Zend\I18n\Translator\Translator class.

Setup

Before using the Translate view helper, you must have first created a Translator object and have attached it to the view helper. If you use the Zend\View\HelperPluginManager to invoke the view helper, this will be done automatically for you.

Basic Usage

// Within your view

echo $this->translate("Some translated text.");

echo $this->translate("Translated text from a custom text domain.", "customDomain");

echo sprintf($this->translate("The current time is %s."), $currentTime);

echo $this->translate("Translate in a specific locale", "default", "de_DE");

translate(string $message[, string $textDomain[, string $locale]])

Parameters:

• $message – The message to be translated.
• $textDomain – (Optional) The text domain where this translation lives. Defaults to the value “default”.
• $locale – (Optional) Locale in which the message would be translated (locale name, e.g. en_US). If unset, it will use the default locale (Locale::getDefault())

Gettext

The xgettext utility can be used to compile *.po files from PHP source files containing the translate view helper.

xgettext --language=php --add-location --keyword=translate my-view-file.phtml

See the Gettext Wikipedia page for more information.

Public Methods

Public methods for setting a Zend\I18n\Translator\Translator and a default text domain are inherited from

Zend\I18n\View\Helper\AbstractTranslatorHelper.