The %s’s get replaced at runtime of the php.
We’ll do a likely unrealistic example for what you’d actually encounter, but would display how this functionality works.
Say you created 3 achievement types. “Missions”, “Quests”, and “Challenges”
$achievements = badgeos_get_achievements( $args );
$output = '';
foreach( $achievements as $earned ) {
$output .= '<p>' . sprintf(
__( '%s is one of the available achievements', 'textdomain' ),
$earned
) . '</p>';
}
What this basic loop will do is query for our 3 achievements, and create our $output string inside a foreach loop. Each will be their own <p> tag line.
You have already internationalized the 3 achievement types when you created them. So “Missions”, “Quêtes”, and “Défis”. Inside the .pot file would be one line to translate the “%s is one of the available achievements” line, leaving in the %s part. Then when the actual output is echo’d to the browser, the %s will be replaced with the 3 achievement types.
This would be the end result of our $output string that gets echo’d
<p>Missions is one of the available achievements</p>
<p>Quêtes is one of the available achievements</p>
<p>Défis is one of the available achievements</p>
If this wouldn’t be the end result, then something would need to be debugged because something went wrong.
Hope this makes more sense for this.
