What kind of database access is this <% something %>

@vincent15000 No, it refers to a column in competitions table in the database:

patrol_size (int, 8)
Kolumnpatrol_time (int, 10)
Kolumnpatrol_time_interval (int, 10)
Kolumnpatrol_time_rest (int, 10)
Kolumnpdf_logo (varchar, 'websh...)

in this case the time interval between patrols. In this case 10 minutes.

@raffelustig unless you know angular you are going to struggle to modify this code

@Snapey Well, then I have to learn angular. Just wonder, is it angular I still need to use or any other code for Laravel 7?

@vincent15000 Yes, in fact it takes a name from app/Models/Competition.php:

       else:
            $translations->patrols_name_singular = _('patrull');
            $translations->patrols_name_plural = _('patruller');
            $translations->patrols_list_singular = _('patrullista');

@raffelustig can you show the complete code there?

Also laravel has nothing to do with angular. Angular is a frontend framework. So you can use it if you want

@jlrdw Yes too ... but here it's really Angular.

@vincent15000 I just realized.

@jlrdw Ok, fine. Now, these statements works fine in the laravel 5.3 version but in laravel 7 I'm getting "expects exactly 1 parameter, 2 given" for every single of these. If I remove the first, it errors the second and so on. How to adapt these in vers. 7?

@Snapey will try that. And yes! it really worked, and I got the "Create station" exactly as it should be! I will try this on other statementes and se what it does there. So those {{_( are making the problems?

@raffelustig I've not given you anything to try !

I assumed that these were standard translation strings, but they would be double underscore {{__('string')}} but you seem to have single underscore function name.

Check if you have a helpers file...

%s is a placeholder typically used with sprintf() function and allows replacement in the middle of strings, eg

sprintf('Mr %s will see you now for your % appointment','snapey','10:00')

The example you are working with here is a simple concatenation of two strings so you can just smash them together, but you may have other places in the code that are more complex. You need to find and fix that helper.

@Snapey Well, in config I have laravel-gettext.php and in there there is:

   /**
     * The adapter used to sync the laravel built-in locale
     */
    'adapter' => \Xinax\LaravelGettext\Adapters\LaravelAdapter::class,

    /**
     * Use custom locale that is not supported by the system
     */
    'custom-locale' => false,

    /**
     * The keywords list used by poedit to search the strings to be translated
     *
     * The "_", "__" and "gettext" are singular translation functions
     * The "_n" and "ngettext" are plural translation functions
     * The "dgettext" function allows a translation domain to be explicitly specified
     *
     * "__" and "_n" are helpers functions @see \Xinax\LaravelGettext\Support\helpers.php
     */
 'keywords-list' => ['_', '__', 'gettext', '_n:1,2', 'ngettext:1,2', 'dgettext:2'],
];

@raffelustig so you are using this package https://packagist.org/packages/xinax/laravel-gettext

@Sinnbeck Yes, from the very beginning. The thing is that this system is not written by me, but were trying to upgrade it from 5.3 to at least 7

@raffelustig so either write your own method that does the same as that package. Or remove it and rewrite all translations to use laravels translation method instead https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/localization#replacing-parameters-in-translation-strings

@Sinnbeck sounds like a large process. Do you think that this is the problem?

@Snapey yes, I remember that we had sprintf but took those away because of some problems I don't recall. Do you think that sprintf should be put in again (laravel 7)?

@Snapey @Snapey Well, I have used your idea to remove >{{_('. , ', ' and )}} in make stations blade and it works perfect. The blade shows exactly what's expected and stations are stored in database. Now I did the same in the blade patrols. There were about 20-25 different statements that I adjusted like that. Finally I got another error:

[2022-01-15 15:38:02] local.ERROR: Target [App\Contracts\ExcelInterface] is not instantiable while building 

but realized that I have missed to reinstall "maatwebsite/excel": "^3.1.35", When I installed that It works fine now.

@Snapey I have changed to https://packagist.org/packages/mediactive-digital/laravel-gettext but no effect so far. That package is not abandoned.

@raffelustig That is the best answer? Not one of the answers that actually told you what that syntax meant?

@Sinnbeck No, my fault. Will change