Translating to a New Language

ResolvedPlugin Author Mark O’Donnell
(@markodonnell)

11 years, 5 months ago
This is an e-mail I received from shoalsummitsoltions.com today and moved it here.

Hello,

im using your Game Schedules Plugin and tried to do a localisation in German. I used PoEdit and translated the default.po/mo files that a found in the LANG dir.

I edited the PHP File in this:
```
//      MSTW localization domain
        $mstw_domain = 'mstw-loc-domain-de_DE.mo';

// ----------------------------------------------------------------
// Set up localization
add_action( 'init', 'mstw_load_localization' );

function mstw_load_localization( ) {
        global $mstw_domain;
    load_plugin_textdomain( $mstw_domain, false, dirname( plugin_basename( __FILE__ ) ) . '/lang/' );
} // end custom_theme_setup
```
But i dont have success?

Could you tell me what am i missing or maybe doin wrong?

regards,
Christian

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/game-schedules/

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Plugin Author Mark O’Donnell
(@markodonnell)

11 years, 5 months ago
Hi Christian,
First note that I only enabled internationalization on the user side, not the admin site (edit screens, etc.).

You almost have it, but you’re working a bit too hard. You should NOT make any edits to the .php files to create a new translation. Put them back the way they were. Then:
- Open the lang/default.po file, enter the German translations, then save it as lang/mstw-loc-domain-de_DE.po. (Two files will be saved the .po and a .mo. The .po file is editable, the .mo is not.)
- Next edit your wp-config file, which should be in the root directory of your WordPress site. Find the line:
```
define ('WPLANG', '');
```
  and change it to
```
define ('WPLANG', 'de_DE');
```
Let me know if this works for you. And if you will please send me the de_DE.po file, I will include it in the next release.

Thanks.
-Mark
Snookerlounge
(@snookerlounge)

11 years, 5 months ago

Hello Mark,

thanks for the advice!

I reinstalled the original files and now it works like it should.

Regarding the German Lang File i could send it to you but i think it makes not that much sense because i use it in a very specific way, e.g. as for OPPONENT the correct translation would be „Gegner“ – but i call it „Turnier“ (Tourney), because i use it for Billards.

One more thing:

In the Countdown widget it would be fine to have a possibility to set a number of games that will show up instead of only 1 game a time. Is that doable and how?

Regards,
Christian

Snookerlounge
(@snookerlounge)

11 years, 5 months ago

One more thing:

I change the time format from Month Day Year —> Day Month Year (is more convinient in Europe).

No i get an Error that says :

Warning: date() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given in /wp-content/plugins/game-schedules/mstw-game-schedule.php on line 1282

I dunno wether or not this has something to do with the date format change?

Any suggestions?

Snookerlounge
(@snookerlounge)

11 years, 5 months ago

I solved the Error message – seemed, that i had forgotten to enter the correct time for the event.

Now the error is gone.

Plugin Author Mark O’Donnell
(@markodonnell)

11 years, 5 months ago

Great. Glad to hear that.

Yes, you have to be very careful about the time format. The code is brittle – I need to add more robust error checking.

In the FAQ for version 2.1 (released today) I added some information on setting the date-time group format in various places.

So I am calling both of these topics resolved.

-Mark

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