Joomla 4.0 Text sprintf

Question

I know at some point sprintf was a method of the JText class, but it doesn't seem to work in Joomla 4.0. I tried the following, not working:

$str = Text::sprintf('JFIELD_COLOR_ADVANCED_INPUT_PLACEHOLDER', 'JFIELD_COLOR_ADVANCED_FORMAT_RGB');

Here's what I have and it works

$placeholder = sprintf(Text::_('JFIELD_COLOR_ADVANCED_INPUT_PLACEHOLDER'), Text::_('JFIELD_COLOR_ADVANCED_FORMAT_RGB'));

I need to know if there is a replacement for the deprecated JText::sprintf() method in Joomla 4.0, or is my method basically the way to do it now?

Thanks

Answer 1

If you want to translate the variables, you need to do it before passing them to Text::sprintf():

Text::sprintf('JFIELD_COLOR_ADVANCED_INPUT_PLACEHOLDER', Text::_('JFIELD_COLOR_ADVANCED_FORMAT_RGB'));

This hasn't changed since J3 and Joomla\CMS\Language\Text::sprintf() is not deprecated in J4.