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Reputation: 13394

translation view for Yii app not found

I set up an i18n page, where I translate messages using yii\i18n\PhpMessageSource with the following config part: (config/web.php)

$config = [
 'id' => 'basic',
 'basePath' => dirname(__DIR__),
 'bootstrap' => ['debug'],
 'language' => 'de-DE',
 'components' => [
     'i18n' => [
            'translations' => [
                'app*' => [
                   'class' => 'yii\i18n\PhpMessageSource',
                    'basePath' => '@app/messages',
                    'fileMap' => [
                        'app' => 'app.php',
                    ],
                    'forceTranslation' => true,
                ],
            ],

]]

...byt the way: this works fine. For a kind of static content -like an imprint-, I like to use an complete translated view. So I added some sub-directories in the views - folder, with the view insight:

@app/views/myController/de-DE/myview.php
@app/views/myController/en-US/myview.php

So my action does the following:

public function actionImpressum() {
    \Yii::$app->language = 'en-US';
   return $this->render('myview');
}

...which results in an invalid parameter

yii\base\InvalidParamException: The view file does not 
exist: /path/to/my/app/views/myCtrl/myview.php

This error is valid, because there is no view at this path. But shouldn't the render() method use the path for the translation views, like: /path/to/my/app/views/myCtrl/en-US/myview.php ?? Is there something I forgot?

Thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 207

Answers (1)

Bizley
Bizley

Reputation: 18021

Since there is no sourceLanguage set in your configuration I assume you have not changed it and the source language of your app is en-US (default one).

When the source language is the same as target language view is not translated.

See documentation about this:

Note: If the target language is the same as source language original view will be rendered regardless of presence of translated view.

So for en-US it looks for /path/to/my/app/views/myCtrl/myview.php file.

Upvotes: 1

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