Translate the body of "Pop-up warning text"

for multilingual sites the body of the "Pop-up warning text-field" should be string translatable.

Just like any variable in Drupal, you can translate this variable using i18n module's Multilingual Variable feature.

The multilingual variables module is built into the D8 i18n module. Just follow the instructions on the link above to add the external link variable to your settings.php file. The variable directly in the External Links UI becomes translatable when you switch between the languages on your site.

Sorry yes I meant "D7 i18n module".

So can you tell me how the name of the variable is to put it into the "settings.php" file?

Look at the HTML source of the page, and use the "name" attribute on the form element to identify what the name of the variable is internally.

Okay, one step at a time here:

- Go to /admin/config/user-interface/extlink on your site.
- Look at the HTML source.
- See that the "name" attribute on the "Pop-up warning text" field is "extlink_alert_text".
- Open sites/default/settings.php. Put this at the bottom of the file:

$conf['i18n_variables'][] = 'extlink_alert_text';

- Go to /admin/config/user-interface/extlink. Change your language to whatever language you need to translate the message into.
- Enter the warning text for that language.
- Switch back to the original language, see that the two values are different when you switch languages.

I forgot to mention you must also have http://drupal.org/project/i18n installed (just the main i18n module needs to be enabled). When set up properly, it will add "This is a multilingual variable." to the description text of variables you have set up as translatable.

I'm sorry, at this point you'll need to figure this out on your own. External Links is no different than other modules in translating it's variables. My instructions indeed were for Drupal 6, but the situation hasn't changed much in Drupal 7. I don't run any multilingual sites in D7.

Actually setting $conf['i18n_variables'] will not work in Drupal 7, because support for this method is dropped in D7 version of i18n.

Now module developers should declare their variables with hook_variable_info() to make them translatable with i18n (as seen on http://drupal.org/project/variable project page).

Now I'm building a multilingual web-site and it is indeed pretty frustrating to not have an ability to translate this simple piece of text. This module is not an exception, and I have to deal with this kind of issue with some other ones. I hope this will be fixed. Quite fortunately, it is pretty simple thing to do.

I'm not a module developer, so the solution below this line may be not the best one. Still works like a charm for me :)

Create a file inside the module directory and name it extlink.variable.inc

Put inside it the following piece of code:

<?php

function extlink_variable_info($options) {
  $variables['extlink_alert_text'] = array(
    'type' => 'text',
    'title' => t('External Link Pop-up warning text', array(), $options),
    'description' => t('Text to display in the pop-up external link warning box.', array(), $options),
    'required' => TRUE,
    'localize' => TRUE,
     );
	 
  return $variables;
}

Flush the cache. Now go to admin/config/regional/i18n/variable and enable the "External Link Pop-up warning text" variable under the Other tab. Save the form, go to admin/config/user-interface/extlink and look for "This is a multilingual variable" mark under the pop-up warning textbox. If you see it - then it's working and now can be translated. Just switch back and forth between your languages and fill the text, it should remain separately for each language.

Of course, it's will be best if something like this can be tested and commited to the module code.

I'm not a module developer, so the solution below this line may be not the best one. Still works like a charm for me :)

Code works for me with Drupal 7, thank you very much Treidge!

Hi Samucia

Does the alert real translated?

I followed the step on my site.

The variable translate worked. But the js alert not work.

Do I something wrong?

Hey guys,

I used extlink, extlink_extra, colorbox, language_sections modules.
Finally walked through the pop-up could not be translated issue.

Done