Answers.Body: <p>I'm simply trying to follow the <a href="https://docs.craftcms.com/v3/static-translations.html#provide-the-translations" rel="nofollow noreferrer">docs</a> as good as possible.</p>
  
  <h2>Try the following:</h2>
  
  <h3>Example String we'll be using: <code>"cheese"</code> | <code>"fromage"</code></h3>
  
  <ol>
  <li>in your <code>config/general.php</code> make sure you have your <code>siteUrl</code> set as an array with at least two entries, example:<code>'siteUrl' =&gt; ['my_site_en' =&gt; 'http://localhost:1234, 'my_site_fr =&gt; 'http://localhost:1234/fr/'];</code></li>
  <li><p>in your <code>translations/fr/site.php</code> make sure it only contains the following</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  
  return [
    'cheese' =&gt; 'fromage',
  ];
  </code></pre></li>
  <li><p>in your twig file add the following <code>&lt;h1&gt;{{ "cheese"|t }}&lt;/h1&gt;</code> </p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>4. <strong>important</strong>: Access your Control Panel (<code>cpTrigger</code> in <code>config/general.php</code> for the first part of the URL), => <code>http://localhost:1234/%CP_TRIGGER%/settings/sites</code> and make sure you have <strong>2 sites, both in the same group, one in <code>en</code>, one in <code>fr</code> &amp; their URLs must also be set!</strong>  <br/> It should look similar to this <a href="https://i.sstatic.net/4ez3U.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/4ez3U.png" alt="Craft CP with two sites, main english, additional french"></a></p>
  
  <p>As long as all 4 steps are followed, it <strong>should</strong> work.</p>
  
  <p>Hope this helps!</p>
  
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Answers.Text: I was seriously hoping this would work, but it didn't. I seriously don't know what I am doing wrong, but it is genuinely frustrating!
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Answers.Text: Alright well let's not give up just quite yet, we still have a few things we can try...
  
  clear your logs `storage/logs/*` and then call an URL which *should* (if it worked) translate a string to another language.
  
  After that please zip your entire `storage/logs` folder and upload it to some file-sharing website and post the link in the comments so I can take a look at it, I think that'd be a good place to check as the logs sometimes have some info which may get overlooked otherwise. (For example you could use https://send.firefox.com/)
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Answers.Text: Hi Campiotti. Here are the logs files: https://send.firefox.com/download/49de7f59e66f4879/#bm3SAgphYcNqYAG4yThKtA
  
  The two lines I'm trying to translate are called "Email Address" and "Go!" in case it helps you find something.
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Answers.Text: Oh I forgot about the time-limit on the send.firefox.com downloads sorry!
  I miseed the download span and am now unable to download the logs... I think it might be better if a more non-temporary file hoster would be used like https://mediafire.com . Sorry about that, but could you please upload the logs once more but to that file hoster? Then the link wouldn't expire so fast and I'll try and take a look at the logs to see if I can find anything, thanks.
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Answers.Text: There you go: http://www.mediafire.com/file/8zkvrlzi2na9mvx/logs.zip/file
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Answers.Text: I searched your logs and I wasn't able to find any occurrences of `Email Address` or `Go!` nor did I find any warnings or errors... so long your translations are in a file that should've been loaded, such as `home.twig`, I'm really not sure what could be the cause of this not functioning....
  
  
  BUT I have *one more thing for you to try*: [This Craft3 Free Translations Plugin](https://github.com/jan-dh/translator#readme) This allows managing/translating static translated strings from your templates directly in the Control-Panel. 
  I hope this works/fixes it.
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Answers.Text: Hi Campiotti, thank you so much for your help. My problem did get solved! When I deployed my site to a web server, it worked. I can't make it work on localhost tho.
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Answers.Text: strange... glad that it works on your deployed site though!
  
  Not sure if they'd be able to fix it but maybe make a bug report on the craft cms 3 github issues page, this might be a bug or it might be some misconfigured aspect of your local installation which isn't present on the deployed server.
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Body: <p>I am making a website with Craft 3 and I have some static text that needs to be translated.</p>
  
  <p>I followed Craft's documentation on it. I created my <code>translations/fr/site.php</code> file and use the <code>{{ 'String'|t }}</code> format to translate my strings. </p>
  
  <p>I tried everything I found on the web, but I can not make it work. My strings stay in english and doesn't translate. It doesn't even seem to access the <code>site.php</code> file. </p>
  
  <p>I tried to clear my cache, restart my Docker container, change the folder name to <code>fr-CA</code> instead of <code>fr</code> ...  </p>
  
  <p>I found another member here that had the same problem as me, but he updated Craft and it worked. My Craft configuration is up to date... </p>
  
  <p>Is there something I am missing? </p>
  
  <p>Thank you. </p>
  
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Comments.Text: What do you get in an incognito window?
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Comments.Text: Have you tried copying a working translation's English string and "statically" translating it in it's stead to check if that works? 
  ---
  Example: `{{ welcome_message|t }}` let's say `welcome_message` is `Welcome User!` so you replace the dynamic reference as follows `{{ 'Welcome User!'|t }}`
  ---
  If that works but your other static translations don't, then there's an error with your input string or your translation array having the wrong text as key.
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Comments.Text: Hi, I did try with an incognito windows and it didn't work. And I don't use dynamic reference, I simply use plain static strings.
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Tags: <localization>
Title: Craft 3 doesn't translate static strings
ThreadText: # Craft 3 doesn't translate static strings
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-12-05)
  
  I am making a website with Craft 3 and I have some static text that needs to be translated.
  
  I followed Craft's documentation on it. I created my `translations/fr/site.php` file and use the `{{ 'String'|t }}` format to translate my strings.
  
  I tried everything I found on the web, but I can not make it work. My strings stay in english and doesn't translate. It doesn't even seem to access the `site.php` file.
  
  I tried to clear my cache, restart my Docker container, change the folder name to `fr-CA` instead of `fr` ...
  
  I found another member here that had the same problem as me, but he updated Craft and it worked. My Craft configuration is up to date...
  
  Is there something I am missing?
  
  Thank you.
  
  **Tags:** localization
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: What do you get in an incognito window?  
  > **username_2**: Have you tried copying a working translation's English string and "statically" translating it in it's stead to check if that works?  --- Example: `{{ welcome_message|t }}` let's say `welcome_message` is `Welcome User!` so you replace the dynamic reference as follows `{{ 'Welcome User!'|t }}` --- If that works but your other static translations don't, then there's an error with your input string or your translation array having the wrong text as key.  
  > **username_0**: Hi, I did try with an incognito windows and it didn't work. And I don't use dynamic reference, I simply use plain static strings.  
  
  ---
  
  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2019-12-09. Score: 2
  
  I'm simply trying to follow the [docs](https://docs.craftcms.com/v3/static-translations.html#provide-the-translations) as good as possible.
  
  ## Try the following:
  
  ### Example String we'll be using: `"cheese"` | `"fromage"`
  
  1. in your `config/general.php` make sure you have your `siteUrl` set as an array with at least two entries, example:`'siteUrl' => ['my_site_en' => 'http://localhost:1234, 'my_site_fr => 'http://localhost:1234/fr/'];`
  2. in your `translations/fr/site.php` make sure it only contains the following
  
     ```
     <?php
  
     return [
       'cheese' => 'fromage',
     ];
  
     ```
  3. in your twig file add the following `<h1>{{ "cheese"|t }}</h1>`
  
  4. **important**: Access your Control Panel (`cpTrigger` in `config/general.php` for the first part of the URL), => `http://localhost:1234/%CP_TRIGGER%/settings/sites` and make sure you have **2 sites, both in the same group, one in `en`, one in `fr` & their URLs must also be set!**   
   It should look similar to this [![Craft CP with two sites, main english, additional french](https://i.sstatic.net/4ez3U.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/4ez3U.png)
  
  As long as all 4 steps are followed, it **should** work.
  
  Hope this helps!
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: I was seriously hoping this would work, but it didn't. I seriously don't know what I am doing wrong, but it is genuinely frustrating!  
  > **username_2**: Alright well let's not give up just quite yet, we still have a few things we can try...  clear your logs `storage/logs/*` and then call an URL which *should* (if it worked) translate a string to another language.  After that please zip your entire `storage/logs` folder and upload it to some file-sharing website and post the link in the comments so I can take a look at it, I think that'd be a good place to check as the logs sometimes have some info which may get overlooked otherwise. (For example you could use https://send.firefox.com/)  
  > **username_0**: Hi username_2. Here are the logs files: https://send.firefox.com/download/49de7f59e66f4879/#bm3SAgphYcNqYAG4yThKtA  The two lines I'm trying to translate are called "Email Address" and "Go!" in case it helps you find something.  
  > **username_2**: Oh I forgot about the time-limit on the send.firefox.com downloads sorry! I miseed the download span and am now unable to download the logs... I think it might be better if a more non-temporary file hoster would be used like https://mediafire.com . Sorry about that, but could you please upload the logs once more but to that file hoster? Then the link wouldn't expire so fast and I'll try and take a look at the logs to see if I can find anything, thanks.  
  > **username_0**: There you go: http://www.mediafire.com/file/8zkvrlzi2na9mvx/logs.zip/file  
  > **username_2**: I searched your logs and I wasn't able to find any occurrences of `Email Address` or `Go!` nor did I find any warnings or errors... so long your translations are in a file that should've been loaded, such as `home.twig`, I'm really not sure what could be the cause of this not functioning....   BUT I have *one more thing for you to try*: [This Craft3 Free Translations Plugin](https://github.com/jan-dh/translator#readme) This allows managing/translating static translated strings from your templates directly in the Control-Panel.  I hope this works/fixes it.  
  > **username_0**: Hi username_2, thank you so much for your help. My problem did get solved! When I deployed my site to a web server, it worked. I can't make it work on localhost tho.  
  > **username_2**: strange... glad that it works on your deployed site though!  Not sure if they'd be able to fix it but maybe make a bug report on the craft cms 3 github issues page, this might be a bug or it might be some misconfigured aspect of your local installation which isn't present on the deployed server.  
  
  ---
  
  