Craft 3 doesn't translate static strings

Question

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.

Answer 1

I'm simply trying to follow the docs 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

As long as all 4 steps are followed, it should work.

Hope this helps!