Re: First Name, Last Name Order of Translation

This is tricky because it depends on the language, and it's hard to know what language a name is encoded in. It's not necessarily the language of the current localization, which is what __() would be expected to use.

I ended up adding a language column to my names table and then writing a custom function that assembles the name according to the language. (It's not just asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, but also european languages such as Hungarian, AIUI.)

As a side note, to avoid confusion I would call the fields "given" and "family", not "first" and "last".

On Thursday, August 21, 2014 11:31:09 AM UTC-4, Justin Atack wrote:

Hi All,

As we know in some languages (Chinese) the order of a persons name is family name, first name.

How do we handle this for translation of strings. I need to be able to allow translators to switch the order depending on language.

Here is a way I have found to do it but I don't really like it. I would prefer if there was a Cake way I could use.

<?php
    $first_name = $student['Student']['first_name'];
    $last_name = $student['Student']['last_name'];
?>
<h1><?php echo __("$first_name $last_name"); ?></h1>

I came across the String::insert feature but I don't think it can be used in views and with the __() function?

I look forward to your input

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