Use placeholders in translation using tags

Question

In Symfony / Twig, I could use tags by using percentages in my translated block. For example:

Hello {{nickname}}

would become

{% trans %}Hello %nickname%{% endtrans %}

This works as expected. The array with placeholders that I pass to Twig, are automatically mapped to %placeHolder%. No extra work involved. So this works with my PHP array from the controller being:

Array('nickname' => 'rolandow')

When I want to use the nickname inside the translation block, all I have to do is surround it with percentages %. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work when I pass it to trans.

Now I would like to translate a whole block of text, using tags. I can't figure out how I can use the tags in my translation. So, my twig would look something like this:

{{ say.hello|trans }}

And my translation snippet

<trans-unit id="1">
  <source>say.hello</source>
  <target>Hello %nickName%, how are you doing today? lots-of-text-here</target>
</trans-unit>

I got it working by using this in my template, but it feels like doing things twice. I now need to put the array of placeholder into the trans function again. For example:

{{ say.hello|trans('%nickName%' : nickName) }}

If I want to use other tags that are given to twig in my controller, I need to pass them to the translator as well. Can't I just pass the complete array somehow?

Answer 1

{{ say.hello|trans('%nickname%': 'rolandow') }}