Yii: GetText _() vs Yii::t()

Question

When translating strings in Yii with GetText, do we have to use Yii::t($category,\'message\') or gettext\'s _(\'message\') syntax?

And then how

Answer 1

You need to use Yii::t() for translations. with the inbuilt yiic message command you can generate all the text in to language file.

Example-

 Yii::t('app', 'Hello World');
 Yii::t('email', 'Welcome');

This will generate 2 files app.php and email.php inside your messages directory. messages/en/app.php & messages/en/email.php

please find more info about Yii translations here

https://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/2.0/en/tutorial-i18n https://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/topics.i18n