Sometimes, we need to create a global function that have some strings\u00a0and we must\u00a0translate these strings. Basically for making our strings translatable, we use l() function of Prestashop’s Module class. So suppose if\u00a0our string\u00a0is ‘Product name is required.’ then we use –<\/p>\n
$this->l('Product name is required.');<\/pre>\nBut it\u00a0works only in our Prestashop controllers or module’s main\u00a0class.\u00a0So in this blog, we will learn that how to use l() function in classes of our Prestashop module for making our strings translatable.<\/p>\n
In Prestashop, l() function is defined in Module class i.e.<\/p>\n
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- $specific – Second parameter is a\u00a0source name that will be\u00a0our class name in which we will implement l() function. This parameter is optional that means if you didn’t set this parameter then Prestashop\u00a0will take by default –\n
$this->name<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nSo if we want to use\u00a0l()\u00a0function in any class for making our string\u00a0translatable then we\u00a0can implement with following way –<\/p>\n
Suppose we have a class in our module that is ‘Product’ And here if want to use l() function in this class then we can\u00a0implement below code in any function of Product class.<\/p>\n
$objDemoModule = new DemoModule();\r\n$objDemoModule->l('Product name is required.', 'Product');<\/pre>\nHere DemoModule\u00a0is our main\u00a0class that extends Prestashop Module class. So we make an object of this class that call l() function with it. First parameter of l() function is our string and second parameter is our class name where we implement this function.<\/p>\n
After this, we can see in Prestashop translations,\u00a0A section of our class name ‘Product’ will display with our string\u00a0‘Product name is\u00a0\u00a0required.’ So here we can translate this string.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"