- Patch #642782 by plach, Dave Reid, greggles, mfb: hook_language_init() is a bootstrap hook and needs bootstrap_invoke_all().

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/modules/locale/locale.api.php b/modules/locale/locale.api.php
index 90f6132dd..488b2bbed 100644
--- a/modules/locale/locale.api.php
+++ b/modules/locale/locale.api.php
@@ -25,6 +25,33 @@ function hook_locale($op = 'groups') {
 }
 
 /**
+ * Allows modules to act after language initialization has been performed.
+ *
+ * This is primarily needed to provide translation for configuration variables
+ * in the proper bootstrap phase. Variables are user-defined strings and
+ * therefore should not be translated via t(), since the source string can
+ * change without notice and any previous translation would be lost. Moreover,
+ * since variables can be used in the bootstrap phase, we need a bootstrap hook
+ * to provide a translation early enough to avoid misalignments between code
+ * using the original values and code using the translated values. However
+ * modules implementing hook_boot() should be aware that language initialization
+ * did not happen yet and thus they cannot rely on translated variables.
+ */
+function hook_language_init() {
+  global $language, $conf;
+
+  switch ($language->language) {
+    case 'it':
+      $conf['site_name'] = 'Il mio sito Drupal';
+      break;
+
+    case 'fr':
+      $conf['site_name'] = 'Mon site Drupal';
+      break;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
  * Perform alterations on language switcher links.
  *
  * A language switcher link may need to point to a different path or use a