Bilingual website

[Luc Gagnon]

Hi,
I’m working on a bilingual website (using Polylang) and most of the plugin is working perfectly. I have 2 issues.
1. How can I have confirmation emails in 2 languages?

1. I want the registration form to present the Paypal page in the right language. So I set up a hidden field in the form to do it but it doesn’t work. I see the field in the form but it’s still the English page of Paypal I’m getting


add_action( 'eventorganiser_get_event_booking_form', 'my_add_field');
function my_add_field(){<br />
$element = new EO_Booking_Form_Element_Hidden( array(
'id' => 'lc', //a unique ID
'value' => 'FR'
));
}


Any help would be appreciated as I really like plugin so far. Thanks.

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Luc,

You can use the eventorganiser_booking_confirmed_email_body filter to change the e-mail text. (You can use the placeholders in the message too):

add_filter( 'eventorganiser_booking_confirmed_email_body', function( $message, $booking_id ) {
     //alter $message
     return $message;
}, 10, 2 );

For setting PayPal’s language you can use the eventorganiser_pre_gateway_checkout_paypal (though setting the locale has not been tested).

add_filter( 'eventorganiser_pre_gateway_checkout_paypal', function( $cart, $booking ) {
      $cart['lc'] = 'FR';
      return $cart;
}, 10, 2 );

Adding a booking field won’t help as the form doesn’t post directly to PayPal, it first goes through the plug-in.

[Luc Gagnon]

Thanks. It works great.

Now, what would be the best way to translate the different error message like “Please select a ticket”. I’d like to do it in my custom plugin file.

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Luc,

That text should already be translated based on the selected site language. I don’t know how Polylang works, so if they’re not switching the locale you can use the following method:

add_filter( 'gettext', 'my_translate_text', 20, 3 );
function my_translate_text( $translated_text, $text, $domain ) {
    if ( 'eventorganiserp' !== $domain ) {
          return $translated_text;
    }

    switch ( $translated_text ) {
            case 'Please select a ticket' :
                $translated_text = 'Translated text';
                break;

            case 'Another string to translate' :
                $translated_text = 'Another string translated';
                break;

            //Add more cases as required
        }
    }

    return $translated_text;
}

Please note that not all strings you see will be able to be translated like this. Only hard-coded strings can be translated. Any user-provided text is not translatable unless it has its own dedicated filter (such as the booking e-mail body).

Finally, you may want to perform some check on the language currently in use – you’ll have to consult Polylang’s API on how to do that.

[Luc Gagnon]

Thanks again. Don’t know why, most of the plugin is translated but this Error message wasn’t. It was in the booking-actions.php file.

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