how are form labels translated in symfony2?

Question

I'm using the internal Translation extension in Symfony2 to create a message.en.yml file with the translations. While most of the elements are recorded with a distinct name, the field names( or possibly the entity properties, I'm not sure) are cataloged with only their names. This makes it very difficult to handle them.

For example, this a sample of my message.en.yml:

• address.contactdocumentnumber.list: __address.contactdocumentnumber.list

• address.contactdocumentnumber.add.new: __address.contactdocumentnumber.add.new

• contactDocumentnumber: __contactDocumentnumber

• issuingAuthority: __issuingAuthority

• documentType: __documentType

As you can see the field names: contactDocumentnumber, issuingAuthority, documentType are stored with only their names where what I want is something like address.contactdocumentnumber.form.label.issuingAuthority

How can I change this? And more importantly, where is the template for translations located in a Symfony2 project?

I have noticed that when I change the label in the Form Builder, it does show in my form. But when I run the command "php app/console translate:update --force en MyByndle" the field name is still the same eg __fieldname. Is it possible it takes the name from somewhere else, like the entity for example?

Answer 1

By default Symfony guesses the label based on the name of the field. So a field named some_field will get the label Some field . If you want to override that, you can pass a label option with your translatable string when building the field. For example:

$builder->add('some_field', 'text', [
    'label' => 'section.some_field_label'
]);