CakePHP 2.4 and Timehelper's timeAgoInWords locale - cakephp

Question

Recently I updated CakePHP from 2.3.9 to 2.4.4. As far as I remember (I can't test now) Timehelper::timeAgoInWords was working well in old CakePHP. But after this update I get locale problem. I change language to English, but time ago still comes in Turkish.
In core.php i already set default language to Turkish:
Configure::write('Config.language', 'tur');
Inside my view file I use this:
$d = "2012-05-02 20:17:30"
$myString = $this->Time->timeAgoInWords($d, array('end' => '+10 year'));
I get result in Turkish like this:
1 yıl, 8 ay, 4 hafta önce
I want result like this:
1 year, 8 months, 4 weeks ago
My session variables like this:
[Config] => Array
(
[userAgent] => 35db889a82essb4e57b540d52e8a766d
[time] => 1391121684
[countdown] => 10
[language] => eng
)
Although I set my language as English, result cames in Turkish. How can I debug/fix this ?
Edit:
I checked for Configure-language values. Results like this:
echo Configure::read( 'Config.language' );
result: tur
But
echo $this->Session->read('Config.language');
result: eng
As I noted in the top of my question, I already setted Configure::language inside my core.php file. Does core.php overrides my session value ?
Edit2:
And strange thing is, although Config.language looks like both "tur" and "eng", other parts inside my view file works well. For example this works well:
__("string")
Edit3:
Regarding to this page: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/internationalization-and-localization.html
I added this:
class AppController extends Controller {
public function beforeFilter() {
if ($this->Session->check('Config.language')) {
Configure::write('Config.language', $this->Session->read('Config.language'));
}
}
}
After this change config language results like this:
echo Configure::read( 'Config.language' );
result: eng
echo $this->Session->read('Config.language');
result: eng
But I still see timeAgo result in Turkish..
Last week I migrated to new server, maybe some setting is missing for English or etc ? I can't understand why timeAgo doesn't work while __("string") works.
Edit4:
I even changed core.php like this:
Configure::write('Config.language', 'eng');
setlocale( LC_TIME, 'en_US.utf8', 'eng', 'en', 'en_US', 'en_UK' );
It seems like, in my configuration nothing changes timeAgoInWords's language. I override in every beforeFilter to change Config.language is to english, but still words are Turkish. Note that in my php.ini timezone is like this:
date.timezone = Europe/Istanbul
Edit5:
It seems like there is a problem in the translations. I checked for source code of timeago, here is a copy: https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/blob/2.4.4/lib/Cake/Utility/CakeTime.php#L738
It seems like this method uses __d and __dn so I checked the results in my code. "az önce" means "just now" in Turkish.
I'm sure that Config.language is "eng". So:
echo __d('cake', 'just now', 'just now'); // results: "az önce"
echo __('just now'); // results: "just now"
echo __('az önce'); // results: "az önce"
$days=12;
echo __dn('cake', '%d day', '%d days', $days, $days); // results: "12 gün"
echo __('gün'); // results: "days"

Answer 1

To debug echo Configure::read( 'Config.language' ); right before your timeAgo call. If you find it's not "eng" then you are setting the language to English after timeAgo was already called.
IF that does not work then you may have to call setlocale as well
I use this for english dates:
setlocale( LC_TIME, 'en_US.utf8', 'eng', 'en', 'en_US', 'en_UK' );
And I guess this would the call for Turkish
setlocale(LC_TIME, 'tr_TR.UTF-8', 'tr_TR', 'tr', 'turkish');
PS: Looking at the history of the TimeHelper nothing was changed to affect the locale, but may a dependency was changed.

Answer 2

Normally I change current language like this:
$this->Session->write('Config.language', $lang);
I set default language like this in every request in core.php:
Configure::write('Config.language', 'tur');
Regarding to CakePHP documents I must add this code to my AppController:
class AppController extends Controller {
public function beforeFilter() {
if ($this->Session->check('Config.language')) {
Configure::write('Config.language', $this->Session->read('Config.language'));
}
}
}
After adding the code above to beforeFilter() of AppController, I refreshed /tmp/cache/persistent/ folder and everything works fine.
Edit:
This solution worked well for english but it didn't work for other languages.
Why ? As noted in this question cake looks for cake.po files inside your Locale folder.
For example if you want to see cake's messages in french, so you need to create this file:
/app/Locale/fra/LC_MESSAGES/cake.po
Where do CakePHP use cake.po records ?
For example: this method
You can create default po files like this: i18n shell tutorial
After shell's file creation, you can edit cake.po file for your language.
For some languages cake.po files are ready. For example: french file
You can find rest from there: https://github.com/cakephp/localized

Answer 3

For Russian language it`s necessary to set cake.po file encoding to utf-8, or you will see blank options instead of translated month names.
My solution is:
1. Place file cake.po in \app\Locale\rus\LC_MESSAGES directory and set
2. in AppController file
public function beforeFilter()
{
Configure::write('Config.language', 'rus');
}
Translation file for your language you can find in files of CakePHP Localized plugin https://github.com/cakephp/localized