[Resolved] Translating URL Encoded Shortcode Attributes

Hello,

Those are custom hooks that need to be saved inside the functions.php file of a Child Theme:

add_filter( 'wpml_pb_shortcode_encode', 'wpml_pb_shortcode_encode_urlencoded_json', 10, 3 );
function wpml_pb_shortcode_encode_urlencoded_json( $string, $encoding, $original_string ) {
    if ( 'urlencoded_json' === $encoding ) {
        $output = array();
        foreach ( $original_string as $combined_key => $value ) {
            $parts = explode( '_', $combined_key );
            $i = array_pop( $parts );
            $key = implode( '_', $parts );
            $output[ $i ][ $key ] = $value;
        }
        $string = urlencode( json_encode( $output ) );
    }
    return $string;
}
 
add_filter( 'wpml_pb_shortcode_decode', 'wpml_pb_shortcode_decode_urlencoded_json', 10, 3 );
function wpml_pb_shortcode_decode_urlencoded_json( $string, $encoding, $original_string ) {
    if ( 'urlencoded_json' === $encoding ) {
        $rows = json_decode( urldecode( $original_string ), true );
        $string = array();
        foreach ( $rows as $i => $row ) {
            foreach ( $row as $key => $value ) {
            if ( in_array( $key, array( 'text', 'title', 'features', 'substring', 'btn_text', 'label', 'value', 'y_values' ) ) ) {
                    $string[ $key . '_' . $i ] = array( 'value' => $value, 'translate' => true );
                } else {
                    $string[ $key . '_' . $i ] = array( 'value' => $value, 'translate' => false );
                }
            }
        }
    }
    return $string;
}

Did you save the functions to the functions.php file?

Best regards
Andreas

As far I am aware those are custom hooks that were created by the compatilbity team only for this given purpose. They are not part of the WPML plugin.

Maybe your XML config is not correct. I can offer to take a look as admin, if you agree?

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I means with this, that the provided hooks have been customized as otherwise WPML will not be able to handle the translation ins some cases.

You can find the original hooks for example at:

\wp-content\plugins\sitepress-multilingual-cms\addons\wpml-page-builders\classes\Shared\st\strategy\shortcode\class-wpml-pb-shortcode-encoding.php

public function encode( $string, $encoding ) {
		$decoded_string = $string;
		switch ( $encoding ) {
			case self::ENCODE_TYPES_BASE64:
				$string = base64_encode( $string );
				break;

			case self::ENCODE_TYPES_VISUAL_COMPOSER_LINK:
				$output = '';
				if ( is_array( $string ) ) {
					foreach ( $string as $key => $value ) {
						$output .= $key . ':' . rawurlencode( $value ) . '|';
					}
				}
				$string = $output;
				break;

			case self::ENCODE_TYPES_ENFOLD_LINK:
				$link = explode( ',', $string, 2 );
				if ( $link[0] !== 'lightbox' ) {
					$string = 'manually,' . $string;
				}
				break;

		}

		return apply_filters( 'wpml_pb_shortcode_encode', $string, $encoding, $decoded_string );
	}

Since this approach works for some plugins or widgets, it might not work for others and this is why our compatilbity team provided a customized version of this hook.

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I can only escalate an issue internally if it can be replicated. If you can not provide access, I can offer a WPML test site on which you can try to reproduce the problem.

Further, the issue could be, that your XML config is not correct, and I can only revise this, if you can provide me the respective data. I need to know the structure of the original shortcode and your XML config.