Multi language strings in includes

[heldercervantes]

Hi guys.

I'm having this weird problem with translatable text. I have it in just about every template of the site and it works fine with one exception.

In every template I'm including a footer, using a regular:

<?php include('includes/footer.inc.php'); ?>

Then in that file I have this:

<footer>
  <div class="row">
    <div class="slogan"><?= $home->slogan; ?></div>
    <div class="social">
      <?= __('Follow us'); ?>
      ...

That "follow us" string shows up to be translated on the cms, and so does a second string I have a few lines down, but on the frontend it always renders what's in the code. It doesn't replace with what's set on either the current language or the default language. Just ignores everything.

Any idea what's going on here?

 

Thanks,
H

[AndZyk]

Hello @heldercervantes,

inside includes the following string translation should work:

$this->_('Follow us');

Regards, Andreas

[Zeka]

Hi @heldercervantes.

It looks very similar to my issue, checkout this topic 

 

[heldercervantes]

Thanks for your help.

I used Ryan's suggestion of starting the path to my includes with "./"

<?php include('./includes/footer.inc.php'); ?>

Worked like a charm.