Translate string inside twig template

Question

I am trying to translate a string inside a placeholder in a twig (timber) template. But I cannot detect the string in WPML string translation.

<input type="text" id="s" name="s" value="" placeholder="{{ __('Search', 'textdomain') }}">

I'd guess WPML scans your code for potential translations and isn't picking this up then? Maybe try adding a reference to that translation somewhere in PHP code and see if that helps. And this is possibly a bug or enhancement report for WPML. — Rup, May 18, 2020 at 11:52
it is working fine with php code, just the strings inside twig template are not working — MMK, May 18, 2020 at 13:54

MMK · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-19 07:59:15Z

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I managed to assign a variable to context.

$context = Timber::get_context();
$context['search_placeholder'] = __("Suche","pixel_framework");

Timber::fetch('test.twig',$context);

inside twig

<input type="text" id="s" name="s" value="" placeholder=" {{search_placeholder}}">

answered May 19, 2020 at 7:59

MMK

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Interesting solution, because I think the issue is that the code in .twig files is not scanned by WPML, only in .php files. This seems sensible, potentially a locale file could even be created to store all of these and add them to context. e.g. en.php
– csalmeida
Jun 16 at 14:25

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