Reopen Issue?: Patch to make menu block title translation work

According to http://drupal.org/node/356375#comment-3010092 Jose commented he had posted a patch to correct this.

I am using 6.x-1.7 and have also checked out 6.x-dev from 13-Oct-2010 neither seems to have correct the posted issue from 356375.

Please advise! Thanks

Jose,

Thanks for the response. I think I understand that the behavior is correct as it is. My menu items are able to be translated (menu tree) but the title of the block cannot be.

So the question is how do I work around this issue? There are a lot of menus in this system with lots of nested menu items in the tree. I do need to translate the menu titles or adapt for this limitation.

Do you have a suggestion short of creating a menu for each language?

Thanks, Bob

Just wanted to update about what I ended up doing... these work-arounds probably aren't the most elegant ways to approach life, but they worked. Hopefully these fixes will stand the test of time. I looked around for some good documentation and found a number of comments but nothing which really gave me the missing piece I needed.

Jose's post #3 confirmed that the title itself is not translatable, [not being a programmer I still don't quite understand why]. So went back to look into more options. This is a rather complicated site and I wanted to make sure I was approaching it in the least time consuming manner with the fewest adjustments. I settled in on using the method described in http://drupal.org/node/356375#comment-1792318.

My solution:

I have about 5 menus built and exposed as blocks visible by role. I was going to create block template files for each, however the fix turned out to be very simple and works. I simply opened the block.tpl.php file, wrapped the existing code $block->subject with the t() function. I must have had all the pieces in place and that was the missing link!

Before:

  <?php if ($block->subject): ?>
    <h2 class="title"><?php print $block->subject; ?></h2>
  <?php endif; ?>

After:

  <?php if ($block->subject): ?>
    <h2 class="title"><?php print t($block->subject); ?></h2>
  <?php endif; ?>

I'm wondering if this will be sustainable or by taking the shortcut of simply editing the main block.tpl.php file instead of created new files for each block will that create problems later?

I've posted a addition to a documentation FAQ page about this. I also had a number of other issues which are now solved and working. which looks like an appropriate place to post some more details on this and other things I had to do to make it all work. At some point I will document these in documentation. if anyone wants more information or wants to share some other ideas I'm sure it would be a help to me and others who are looking for solutions.