How can I add entries to languages\pt.py file when a user adds a record?

[João Matos]

Hello,

I would like to add entries to languages\pt.py file when a user adds a record.

How can I do that?

Thanks,

JM

[Leonel Câmara]

Ideally you don't. Frankly web2py's translation system is not ideal for dynamic content. That said, you can simply put a function in the record's table _after_insert that is something like this:

def make_portuguese_entry(fields, recordid):

    T.force('pt')

    T(fields[name_of_the_field], lazy=False)

See:

http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/06/the-database-abstraction-layer#callbacks-on-record-insert-delete-and-update

[João Matos]

Thanks.

Doesn't that only add the left entry part?

I would like to add the left in English and the right in Portuguese.

[Leonel Câmara]

How would web2py know how to translate it when the record is inserted to fill that part? Is it one of the fields? 

[João Matos]

Yes, the user will enter both languages (EN and PT).

I would like to add the pair to languages\pt.py.

[Leonel Câmara]

Something like this:

from gluon.languages import write_dict

def make_portuguese_entry(fields, recordid):

    T.force('pt')

    T.t[fields[name_of_the_field]] = fields[name_of_the_field_pt]

    if T.is_writable:

        write_dict(T.language_file, T.t)

your_table._after_insert.append(make_portuguese_entry)

[João Matos]

That's it. Thanks.