*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

[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.