File update issue on multi-language website

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1

Iā€™m facing an issue while trying to update a fileā€™s field in a hook, on a multi-language setup.

I just canā€™t manage to overcome the current language Iā€™m editing the page with by adding a second argument.

My config.php shows :

c::set('languages', array(
  array(
    'code'    => 'fr',
    'name'    => 'French',
    'default' => true,
    'locale'  => 'fr_FR',
    'url'     => '/',
  ),
  array(
    'code'    => 'en',
    'name'    => 'English',
    'locale'  => 'en_US',
    'url'     => '/en',
  ),
));

c::set('language.detect', true);

Basically this hook is only pre-formatting a percent-based value Iā€™m using for images placeholders :

kirby()->hook(['panel.file.upload', 'panel.file.replace'], function($file) {
  if ($file->type() == 'image') {
      (... $ratio = (blablabla) ...)
      $file->update(array(
          'paddingtop' => $ratio
      ), 'en');
  }
});

Despite this it creates a .fr.txt file if Iā€™m uploading the file while editing in french, and a .en.txt one if editing in english.

What could cause this ? Iā€™d like to update both files with one upload.
Thanks !

2

The current language file will always be created automatically, but you can try to do the following:

$data = ['paddingtop' => $ratio];

$file->update($data, 'en');
$file->update($data, 'fr');

Otherwise you can also just write it into the default language file and then use ā€œtranslate: falseā€ for that field in the blueprint to make sure that the value is not being overwritten in a later update.

3

Thanks for your answer Bastian !

This snippet sounds exactly like what Iā€™m trying to achieve but I tried it previously and unfortunately it doesnā€™t work, Iā€™m still only getting the current language file.

The second would imply that my client remembers to only add files while using the default language, right ? Or is there a way to lock adding files in the ā€˜EN panelā€™ the same way than with fields ?

I currently have it running by creating the missing file by hand, maybe there is some cleaner way to do it.

// (... sets $ratio, $color and some variables ...)
$language = $file->page()->content()->language();
  
// Put all this in an array
$data = ['paddingtop' => $ratio, 'color' => $color];
      
// Update image metadata the conventional way
$file->update($data, $language);
      
// Defines some variables for creating the unset .txt    
$unsetlanguage = ($language == 'en') ? 'fr' : 'en';
$unsetname = $name . '.' . $extension . '.' . $unsetlanguage . '.txt';
$unsetpath = $file->page()->root() . '/' . $unsetname;
$unsetdata = data::encode($data, 'txt');
      
// Removing file if it already exists
if (f::exists($unsetpath)) {
    f::remove($unsetpath);
}
// (Re-)creates the file
f::write($unsetpath , $unsetdata, true);