Hi,

I started investigating possibilities of translation bbPress to Polish. This language along with quite a few non-germanic languages has quite complex plural forms (3 forms instead of just 2). Not getting into much detail, because of the way functions.bb-core.php hardcodes seconds, hours, days… names it’s hard to do a proper translation.

To do it right I’d need a function that uses “%d month” and not just “month” or “months” as defined here:

// array of time period chunks

$chunks = array(

array(60 * 60 * 24 * 365 , __(‘year’) , __(‘years’)),

array(60 * 60 * 24 * 30 , __(‘month’) , __(‘months’)),

array(60 * 60 * 24 * 7, __(‘week’) , __(‘weeks’)),

array(60 * 60 * 24 , __(‘day’) , __(‘days’)),

array(60 * 60 , __(‘hour’) , __(‘hours’)),

array(60 , __(‘minute’) , __(‘minutes’)),

array(1 , __(‘second’) , __(‘seconds’)),

);

Any help would be very much appreciated.

[@vulvodynia Member 15 years, 5 months ago]

I mean is there a way to separate months, seconds, etc. instead of just one output:

$print = sprintf(__(‘%1$d %2$s’), $count, (1 == $count) ? $name : $names);

[@sambauers Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

Hmmm, that’s lame. We should be using the plural translation functions there I think. I’ll look into it.

[@sambauers Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

Try replacing the function bb_since with this and let me know if translation works better for you then:

function bb_since( $original, $do_more = 0 ) {

$today = time();



if ( !is_numeric($original) ) {

if ( $today < $_original = bb_gmtstrtotime( str_replace(',', ' ', $original) ) ) // Looks like bb_since was called twice

return $original;

else

$original = $_original;

}



// array of time period chunks

$chunks = array(

( 60 * 60 * 24 * 365 ), // years

( 60 * 60 * 24 * 30 ),  // months

( 60 * 60 * 24 * 7 ),   // weeks

( 60 * 60 * 24 ),       // days

( 60 * 60 ),            // hours

( 60 ),                 // minutes

( 1 )                   // seconds

);



$since = $today - $original;



for ($i = 0, $j = count($chunks); $i < $j; $i++) {

$seconds = $chunks[$i];



if ( 0 != $count = floor($since / $seconds) )

break;

}



$trans = array(

_n( '%d year', '%d years', $count ),

_n( '%d month', '%d months', $count ),

_n( '%d week', '%d weeks', $count ),

_n( '%d day', '%d days', $count ),

_n( '%d hour', '%d hours', $count ),

_n( '%d minute', '%d minutes', $count ),

_n( '%d second', '%d seconds', $count )

);



$print = sprintf( $trans[$i], $count );



if ( $do_more && $i + 1 < $j) {

$seconds2 = $chunks[$i + 1];

if ( 0 != $count2 = floor( ($since - $seconds * $count) / $seconds2) )

$print .= sprintf( $trans[$i + 1], $count2 );

}

return $print;

}

[@vulvodynia Member 15 years, 5 months ago]

Yeah! That’s it. Works great.

Thank you. Would you add this to 1.01 or whatever it’s going to be called?

test drive: forum ginekologiczne

[@sambauers Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

This was added to the 1.0.1 release that was just made.