Errors when changing translations. No variable substitution.

Errors when changing translations. No variable substitution.

by Jens Jahnke -
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Hi,

I just tried to modify the german translation of moodle. I changed several words in the text and uploaded the files into moodledata/lang/de_local folder.

Afterwards the changes that I made are displayed correctly but every output that includes variables e.g. $a->firstname $a->lastname is no longer translated/working.

To stay with the above example: Instead of gettings "Joe Bob" I just get "$a->firstname $a->lastname". sad

Any ideas?

Regards,

Jens

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Re: Errors when changing translations. No variable substitution.

by Jasmin Klindzic -
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Hello Jens,

isn't the new syntax {$a} - so maybe you just need a pair of brackets?

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Re: Errors when changing translations. No variable substitution.

by David Mudrák -
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As Jasmin points, from Moodle 2.0, the curly brackets are compulsory for value placeholders (they work for Moodle 1.x, too). Try

Hello {$a->firstname}, how are you?
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Re: Errors when changing translations. No variable substitution. (solved)

by Jens Jahnke -

Thanks for pointing out. I worked on the wrong language pack version (1.x while using moodle 2).

 

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