With the help of this command line application you are able to validate phpBB language packs. This application runs on your local machine and can be integrated into a GitHub repository.
This tool requires PHP 8.1 or above. In addition it needs several symfony and other packages, which need to be downloaded and installed with Composer.
Clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb-translation-validator.git
Install the dependencies with Composer:
composer.phar install
Create a directory called 4.0 in the root of the Translation Validator. Afterwards download
the British English language pack
and put its content into 4.0/en/. Do the same with the languages you wish to test. Which leads e.g. to:
phpbb-translation-validator/4.0/en/
phpbb-translation-validator/4.0/de/
phpbb-translation-validator/4.0/fr/
phpbb-translation-validator/translation.php
The simplest way to validate this language packages,
is to open a command line tool in the validator directory.
Then run this command (the final argument is the language you wish to test and that has already been stored to the 4.0 directory; e.g. fr for French):
php translation.php validate fr
There are more arguments that can be supplied. For example, suppose you wanted to have your 4.x directory in a different location, you wanted to explicitly specify phpBB version 4.x (default validation is against 4.0), you wanted to run in safe mode and you wanted to see all notices displayed - you would run this command:
php translation.php validate fr
--package-dir=/path/to/your/4.0
--phpbb-version=4.0
--safe-mode
--display-notices
The --safe-mode flag indicates that you want to parse files instead of directly including them.
This is useful if you want to run validations on a web server.
If you are missing the English language files for the official Viglink extension, they can be easily donwloaded using this command:
php translation.php download --files=phpbb-extensions/viglink --phpbb-version=4.0
In your project you can add phpBB Translation Validator as a dependency:
{
"require-dev": {
"phpbb/translation-validator": "2.0.*"
}
}
Then add a php vendor/bin/translation.php call to your workflow.
We use GitHub Actions as a continuous integration server and phpunit for our unit testing.
To run the unit tests locally, use this command:
php vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit tests/
If you notice any problems with this application, please raise an issue at the Github-Repository.
To submit your own code contributions, please fork the project and submit a pull request at Github-Repository.
When a new version is released, the version number will be updated in composer.json and translation.php. A new tag will be created and the package will become available at Packagist.