*bangs head against translation system*

[denise]

Scenario: I have a dw-nonfree file (cgi-bin/DW/Hooks/Community.pm) in which I want to reference text that is a mixture of both en_DW.dat (dw-nonfree version) and FAQs from en.dat (dw-free version). (Namely: I am referencing FAQs in the code, and would like the FAQ titles to automatically update in the page if they update on the site.)

I thought this would work:

$ret .= "<li><a href='$LJ::SITEROOT/support/faqbrowse?faqid=17'>" . BML::ml( '17.1question' ) . "</a></li>";

However, although I do have a FAQ #17 on my 'hack, it comes up as:

[missing string 17.1question]

I'm suspecting it's because I need to declare the 'faq' scope instead of the 'general' scope, but can I intermingle things from faq and general? Is there an easier way to be doing what I want to do?

Comments

[pauamma]

Hmm. This should work, but I vaguely remember that sometimes FAQs wouldn't exist as translatable strings. Run this:

$LJHOME/bin/upgrading/texttool.pl copyfaq

and try again.

[denise]

Sadly, that did not work :( I have yet to try Sophie's idea, though! All is not lost.

...except my sanity, having been working nonstop on coding stuff since around 1AM. (For reference, it's 2PM right about now...) I think it might be time to take a break and go read some fic instead :P

[pauamma]

I think it might be time to take a break and go read some fic instead :P

Yeah, probably. Or have some sleep. It works wonder for my own sanity. (No comments from the peanut gallery.)

Anyway, when you start working on it again, I'd like to poke at your dreahack a bit more, because there's something not quite right.

[denise]

*snort* I would not be surprised. I have tortured this poor thing.

Anyway, Sophie's code (with some minor adjustments for context) did work for me, so it's all good!

[pauamma]

OK, I'm an idiot. Once http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3833 is fixed, your first method should work on your dreamhack. (And would probably work on production servers now.)

[sophie]

Are you sure? Rah does actually have FAQs on her server, including an FAQ #17. (They're not the production FAQs, obviously, but she does have data there.)

[pauamma]

She has them in the faqs table, but I'm just about sure she doesn't have them in the ml_* tables, because they're not in en.dat or en_DW.dat, which is what \normally populates those tables. I'm not sure why copyfaqs didn't do the trick, though. Maybe memcache was interfering?

[sophie]

Hmm. I'll bow out of the conversation here since I don't know much about how FAQs and the translation system worked, except to say that I was fairly sure you needed to use the "faq" domain for that sort of thing?

[pauamma]

Hmm, yeah. We can probably revisit this once FAQ text makes it to the repo.