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How to localise this string (including html) ?

     echo "<div class='updated'><p>All options are restored successfully.</p></div>" ;

Is this correct?

     echo '<div class="updated"><p>' . __( 'All options are restored successfully.', 'mytextdomain' ) . '</p></div>';

And how to go about this one?

     <p><?php _e( 'On the <a href="' . get_admin_url() . 'import.php">Import</a> page, choose the previously created file and click the <strong>Upload file and import</strong> button.', 'mytextdomain' ); ?></p>
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  • If you want to return the string, use __(), if you want to echo, use _e(). So, _e() is exactly the same as echo __().
    – Max Yudin
    Commented Feb 12, 2013 at 8:46
  • Had a mistake there, edited, so it's correct now?
    – urok93
    Commented Feb 12, 2013 at 8:50
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    Yes, it is correct. A simple test with a real translation could have told you that. Somehow I don’t see you actual problem?
    – fuxia
    Commented Feb 12, 2013 at 8:55
  • I know it works, I just wanted to confirm that it's the proper way to do it, and if there is a more elegant solution.
    – urok93
    Commented Feb 12, 2013 at 9:13
  • @drtanz You asked 111(!!) questions so far. You should really know how to do an update of a question and that posting updates as comments in inappropriate.
    – kaiser
    Commented Feb 12, 2013 at 11:29

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Your example is correct, simply because it works. There are hundreds of ways to localize strings wich are displayed including html, all good and elegant in their own way.

I like to do this as follows:

printf( '<div class="updated">
        <p>%1$s</p>
    </div>',
    __( 'All options are restored successfully.', 'mytextdomain' )
);

You also could do this like:

$str = __( 'All options are restored successfully.', 'mytextdomain' );
echo "<div class='updated'><p>$str</p></div>";

The most important thing is to maintain readability I guess. There isn't a "correct" way to display localized strings in combination with html.

For your second one, I would use:

_e( sprintf( 'On the <a href="%1$s">Import</a> page, choose the previously created file and click the <strong>Upload file and import</strong> button.', get_admin_url() . 'import.php' ), 'mytextdomain' );

In this case, the URL doesn't have to be translated.

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  • Thanks that makes sense, how would you go about the second example I put in the updated question?
    – urok93
    Commented Feb 12, 2013 at 13:49
  • I updated my answer with my opinion on your second example. :-) Commented Feb 12, 2013 at 14:11

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