Locale Deploy
This module allows translation strings to be managed and deployed like code and configuration. It fetches translations from localize.drupal.org and extracts custom translations from your modules, ensuring they are updated and exported as part of your site's deployment process.
Introduction
Translations for Drupal core and contrib modules come from localize.drupal.org. In traditional Drupal, you update translations by either running some Drush commands or clicking around in the UI. This gives a site little to no visibility about the new translations being added. Also it can mean that you're making changes to a live site outside a deployment. Configuration and locale strings are tied together and changes in one can result in changes in the other.
This module enables translations to follow the same deployment path as code and configuration.
Note: This is about how to deploy locale strings and does not interact in anyway with content translation.
Requirements
- Custom code is located in modules/custom
Installation
Install as you would normally install a contributed Drupal module.
Usage
This module makes no changes to Drupal's user interface. All interaction occurs via Drush.
The module provides the following commands:
- locale-deploy:localize-translations
- locale-deploy:custom-translations
Additionally, the module hooks into the updatedb command to ensure that translations are updated during a drush deploy command.
The locale-deploy:localize-translations command gets translations from localize.drupal.org for your site. It places them in your local translations folder. It also updates the site's translations in the database and exports configuration so that all files are correct after the translations have been updated.
The locale-deploy:custom-translations command scans the modules/custom folder to extract any translations there. It will copy them to the custom folder in your local translations folder. There will be one file per language enabled on the site.