Zend_Form setAttrib title not translating with Zend_Translate

Question

When setting the title attribute in Zend_Form, this is not being translated. (Label & errors are translated fine)

// form file

$email = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('username');
$email->setLabel('auth.form.login.username')
      ->setRequired(true)
      ->addFilter('StripTags')
      ->addFilter('StringTrim')
      ->addFilter('StringToLower')
      ->addValidator('NotEmpty')
      ->setAttrib('title', 'auth.form.login.username');

// resource file

...
<tu tuid='auth.form.login.username'>
   <tuv xml:lang="en"><seg>Username</seg></tuv>
</tu>
...

Current result: auth.form.login.username

Expected result: Username

Answer 1

This is a normal behavior, nothing wrong with it.

The setAttrib() method doesn't translate its value parameter, so you need to use a Zend_Translate adapter as follows:

$email->setAttrib('title', $this->getTranslator()->translate('auth.form.login.username'))

This should fix your problem.

See Standard I18n Targets for more information.

Now that you've attached a translation object to, what exactly can you translate by default?

• Validation error messages.
• Labels.
• Fieldset Legends.
• Form and Element Descriptions.
• Multi-option Values.
• Submit and Button Labels.