TYPO3 - Using Fluid StandaloneView to render localized templates in a scheduler task (part 2)

Today I found, that the technique I described in my blogpost about rendering localized Fluid templates in a scheduler task does not work as expected. As long as you want to switch the language used to render the templates only one time, then you're fine. But as soon as you want to switch the language several times (e.g. sending multiple localized e-mails in one request), then you experience that only the first language switch is respected.

The root cause for this is the TYPO3 LocalizationUtility, which includes the static translate() method that is used return translated language labels from XLF/XML language files. The LocalizationUtility is not designed to handle multiple language switches in one request, so at this point I'm stuck.

I order to keep things simple for the integrator (use one e-mail template with language labels to send out localized e-mails in a scheduler task), I decided to create an own viewHelper which uses a modified version of the LocalizationUtility. The modified version of the LocalizationUtility does not contain any static variables or methods and can be used with dependency injection. You can find the code in this GitHub repository.

Usage

In my Fluid StandaloneView templates I now use my own translate viewHelper as shown below.

	{namespace s=Derhansen\Standaloneview\ViewHelpers}
	<strong><s:translate key="title" /></strong>
	<p><s:translate key="description" /></p>

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The viewHelper uses the LocalizationService (which is the TYPO3 LocalizationUtility with some small modifications - e.g. removed all "static" declarations). As a result of this, all functionality of the original viewHelper / TranslationUtility are remained (e.g. overwriting language labels with TypoScript)

	module.tx_standaloneview._LOCAL_LANG.de {
	description = Dies ist der deutsche Titel aus TypoScript überschrieben
	}

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I extended the original demo extension from my first blogpost so it makes use of the new viewHelper / LocalizationService. The Extension now includes a form, which renders multiple Fluid StandaloneViews in one request and the language is switched for each individual StandaloneView (see result-section in the screenshot below)

The demo extension also includes a command controller, which includes a command that also renders multiple standaloneViews in one request (see screenshot below)

If I don't find any major problems, I will make use of this technique to send out multilingual e-mails in a scheduler task in my Event Management Extension.

Final notice

The technique shown should only be used in the backend context of TYPO3 when you want to render multilingual Fluid StandaloneViews in one request. I'm not very happy with the approach of "just" taking some code from the TYPO3 core and adapting it to my needs, since this is not always a clean solution and it may include some drawbacks.