Translate views strings programmatically in Drupal 8

25 June 2018 — Written by Mitesh Patel

#Drupal 8 #Drupal #Multilingual #Configuration translation

In Drupal 8 views translation can be added from back end using views ui. You just need to enable the "Configuration Translation" module.

Then visit the views lists page, you will see a "Translate view" link for each views in links dropdown. Click on the link and you will see a page like this.

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you will see separate section for header / footer / fields / filters / sorts translations. You can edit the labels in your selected language for any section.

But, Sometimes you need to install translation programmatically when installing the module in hook_install. so, without managing *.po file you can add translation by adding following lines of code.

<?php

$view_translate = \Drupal::languageManager()->getLanguageConfigOverride('ar', 'views.view.stores_finder');
$view_translate->set('display.page_1.display_options.fields.field_name.label', 'اسم الحقل');
$view_translate->set('display.page_2.display_options.filters.field_name.label', 'اسم الحقل');
$view_translate->set('display.block_1.display_options.fields.field_name.label', 'اسم الحقل');
$view_translate->save();