translate required fields

senzacionale · April 2012


public $required = array('title', 'content', 'author_id');

and i get error like: Please fill out the required field 'author id'

how can i translate this fields?. I know that i can use


 'author_id' => Please fill out the required field 'Avtor'

but i would like to add this in language file. Can i somehow translate just title to 'Naslov', content to ' Vsebina' and author_id to 'Avtor' that message will be like Please fill out the required field 'Naslov' or 'Vsebina' or 'Avtor',... and not translating whole text?

admin · April 2012

There are a couple ways to do it. The first is you can edit the "default_required_message" property on the model like so:
public $default_required_message = "Please fill out the required field '%1s'"
The second way is to use a key/value in the required array like so:

public $required = array('title' => 'Please fill out the title field.', 'content' => 'Please fill out the content field', 'author_id' => 'Please fill out the author field');

senzacionale · April 2012

Hi, thank you. I already try second way but 'Please fill out the title field' is static text and i can not translate it later to our language. Functio lang() not working here. So i can not use


public $required = array('title' => lang('translate'));

becouse I get error. Can i somehow use lang() function here?

With first option i also don't know how to translate title, content,... to our language without using static Names. I want to use names in lang files.

Lance · April 2012

What's the error?

You need to do it in the __contruct() not the class member definitions.

So at the top:


public $required = array();

__construct():


function __construct()
{
	$this->required = array(
		'title' => lang('string_1'), 
		'content' => lang('string_2'),
		'author_id' => lang('string_3')
	);
		
	parent::__construct('your_table_name');
}

Just tested that and it works for me.

senzacionale · April 2012

Yes this works, thanks. But I modify MY_Model.php


// convert required fields to rules
foreach($required as $key => $val)
{				
	if (is_int($key))
	{			
		$field = $val;				
		$lang = lang('form_label_'.$val);
		if ($lang == '') 
		{
			$lang = str_replace('_', ' ', $val);
		}
		
		//$msg = sprintf($this->default_required_message, str_replace('_', ' ', $lang));				
		$msg = sprintf($this->default_required_message, $lang);
	}
	else
	{
		$field = $key;
		$msg = $val;
	}
	$this->rules[] = array($field, 'required', $msg);
}

so fields name are now selected from language files

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