For a project, we're finally in testing phase and all of a sudden, I point something out that looks wrong: the translator works perfectly... except for the page titles. By that, I mean the following tag:
<title>Title</title>
What gives? Well, my understanding is that the translator is not yet set in the Bootstrap when the
$this->view->headTitle($label);is called.
The first thing I tried? Adding the translate() method to it:1
this->view->headTitle($this->view->translate($label));
... that didn't work at all. Simply no change. Great.
Then I put my thinking cap on (it's still early in the morning), and thougt this through. First of all, here is how the main parts of my Bootstrap file are laid out:
- Register plugins
- Register routes
- Prepare navigation (menus, prepare breadcrumbs, and set page title)
- Prepare translation
- Configure e-mail settings for sending stuff
- Prepare the view
Now this little brain of mine decided to kick in this morning, and made me realize: what if we prepared the translation before setting some text on the output page?
So there I am, moving the _initTranslate() method up a little, right over the _initNavigation(). Just leave the line of code that includes the translate() method ([1] above) when setting the page's title, and as long as $label is defined in your language file(s) and the translator is set correctly, shazam, it'll work like a beauty!
Final trick: you can prepend (or append, I guess) anything to your head title! In your _initView() method, be sure to do the following:
$view = new Zend_View();
$view->doctype('XHTML1_STRICT'); // Or whatever
$view->headTitle('Client - ');
// Add more settings here if needed
$view_renderer = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('ViewRenderer');
$view_renderer->setView($view);
return $view;
By doing this, all your pages' titles will look like "Client - Translated page title". Awesome, isn't it?
