Translating long lists (batch translate)

[Travo]

How would I go about translating a long list of variables? For example, I have defined a list of all possible languages as a PHP dictionary, but writing each one down by hand would be too much work (I have about 500 entries in total, including languages and countries), Is there way to import the translation values from JSON?

public static function LANGUAGES() {
        return [
            "tk" => _x("Turkmen", "language"),
            "ku" => _x("Kurdish", "language"),
            "ht" => _x("Haitian", "language"),
            [.....snip.....]
        ];
    }

[tpr]

I would recommend creating a page for it and add field or fields to translate:

https://processwire.com/talk/topic/10443-how-to-do-this-global-vars/

Alternativel you can apply the technique discussed here:

https://processwire.com/talk/topic/10447-using-translatable-strings-across-template-files/

[Travo]

Thanks. I went for what I initially had as well: a TextareaLanguage field on a page, containing a formatted list (one per list, key and value separated with a colon). I also implemented a translation strings file.

[tpr]

Maybe you can use Multivalue Textformatter.

[Travo]

I solved it like this:

class Lookup {
    public static function COUNTRIES($pages) {
        return self::dictionaryFromField(self::getLookupPage($pages)->Lookup_Countries);
    }

    protected static function getLookupPage($pages) {
        return $pages->findOne('template=lookup-page, include=all');
    }

    protected static function dictionaryFromField($fieldValue) {
        $returnDictionary = [];
        foreach (preg_split('/\R/', $fieldValue) as $line) {
            $explodedLine = explode(':', $line);
            $returnDictionary[trim($explodedLine[0])] = trim($explodedLine[1]);
        }
        return $returnDictionary;
    }
}

Obviously, I have a lot of other lookup lists besides countries there.