Solved How to translate a module ?

Hi, I installed the addon favorites-menu to display and add favorites easier. But this module has no .po or .mo file to translate it<. How can I do it ? By adding text to translate in webtrees/resources/lang/fr/messages.php ? or by creating a "lang" directory in "resources' in this module repertory ?
I searched for information on the translation of untranslated modules, but I could not find anything that matches what I was looking for.

Thanks a lot !

Is this a module that you wrote - or are you adding translations to somebody else's module?

Favourites is a block of the home page.
there is nothing to translate beside the default weblate.

Thanks for your attention. I was talking about an add-on, not the block. github.com/bwong789/webtrees-favorites-menu

That module is not yet designed for translation (as you have seen).
Ask the modules author using github's issues part.

Thanks for your reply. I thought it might be possible to create the necessary files myself or maybe add the sentences to translate in the basic file of translations (/webtrees/resources/lang/fr/messages.php) because they are written in this way : I18N::translate('Make any changes and then click').
If not, I'll contact the dev.

Thanks a lot !

Yes you can do this.

You can create your own module that supplies the translations.

Here is a template/example module that shows how to add translations.

Find the "translatable" text from the original module. e.g.

I18N::translate('Manage favorites based on current page.');

In your module, you can add a translation for 'Manage favorites based on current page.'

BUT - it might be easier to provide the translations to the module author and let him add them.

Sorry, I did not take a look into the code. (In module.php)
There it seems that all output is done with the I18 calling.

So the way for translations is easy, and as Greg did say.

Thanks a lot, but ... where can I find the template/example what you're talking about ?

github.com/webtrees/example-module

Sorry, I though I included the link

A great thanks !
Question 1 : is it possible to add only the public function customtranslation in the module.php file of the original module with each string I wish to translate ?
Question 2 : if yes, perhaps it's possible to create a .po file and the corresponding .mo file using case 'some-other-language':
// Arrays are preferred, and are faster.
// If your module uses .MO files, then you can convert them to arrays like this.
return (new Translation('path/to/file.mo'))->asArray();
If yes, what is necessary to create the .po file (I have PoEdit, I know create a .mo file from a .po but I never created a .po)

Thanks a lot

You create a .PO file from a .POT file.

You create a .POT file by using a tool XGETTEXT to scan the software.

Just use PHP arrays, like in the example.

Super ! I created the .po file from module.php with PoEdit, the .mo is compilated, I added the public function in module.php and a lang directory in resources with both files and it works fine !
But ... module.php doesn't content strings to translate for the module settings. They are in favorites.phtml file wich is in resources > views.
PoEdit created a .po file from this file, I added translations and created the .mo file. Now I don't know what I have to do with them. Add the content of the. mo in the first then compile everything to have only one file but will the phtml find it? Or create a new lang directory in views but I don't believe it's possible to add a public function in a phtml file ...

Thanks for your advice

It's ok, I opened a .po file of an other module wich contained translations of .php and .phtml. Thus I copied content of the second .po file created with PoEdit and containing the phtml translations, and copied it in the first po file. After compiling in a mo file, strings of settings are well translated.
It's really not complicated