Using different value for same key in yii2 i18n - yii2

Question

i', trying to incorporate multi-language functionality into my project and i have a situation whereby the same key has multiple meaning and i wounder how to fix this for example i have in my project
return[
'Home' => '首页', //meaning ‘Home page’
]`
Now the case is i also have some over words with Home as the key but have another meaning like thus
'Home' => '主队', //meaning ‘Home team’
how can actualize this using the same key "Home" but giving them different meaning on different part of my project

Answer 1

There are two options how to deal with situation like that.
Using categories
The proper way would be using different categories for different meanings. To do that you have to configure the translations for two (or more) different categories, for example like that.
'components' => [
// ...
'i18n' => [
'translations' => [
'app*' => [
'class' => 'yii\i18n\PhpMessageSource',
'fileMap' => [
'app' => 'app.php',
'app/match' => 'match.php',
],
],
],
],
],
Your app.php translation file will look like this
return [
'Home' => '首页', //meaning ‘Home page’
];
And your match.php translation file will look like this:
return [
'Home' => '主队', //meaning ‘Home team’
];
Then you will call translations like this where the meaning is home page:
Yii::t('app', 'Home');
And like this where the meaning is home team:
Yii::t('app/match', 'Home');
If you are using yii message command to generate translation files you might need to set the fileMap in it's config to make sure all files are generated properly.
Forcing translations for source language
This way is more like hack than proper solution. You can force the i18n component to translate text even if the source and app language are same. You can use that to have two different keys that are same in the english translations but different in other.
The configuration would look like:
'components' => [
// ...
'i18n' => [
'translations' => [
'app*' => [
'class' => 'yii\i18n\PhpMessageSource',
'forceTranslation' => true,
'fileMap' => [
'app' => 'app.php',
],
],
],
],
],
The english app.php translation file:
return [
'Home page' => 'Home',
'Home team' => 'Home',
];
The chinese app.php translation file:
return [
'Home page' => '首页',
'Home team' => '主队',
];
You will use Yii::t('app', 'Home page') or Yii::t('app', 'Home team') in your code.