README

This package gives you an easy way to translate Eloquent models into multiple languages.

// Display the default title for an Eloquent object.
echo $foo->title;

// Change the current language to Swedish.
App::setLocale('sv');

// Display the translated title in Swedish.
echo $foo->title;

Installation

Require this package, with Composer, in the root directory of your project.

composer require ngocnh/translator

Add the service provider to config/app.php in the providers array.

'Ngocnh\Translator\TranslatorServiceProvider'

Configuration

Laravel Translator requires configuration. To get started, you'll need to publish all vendor assets:

php artisan vendor:publish

This will create a config/translator.php file in your app that you can modify to set your configuration. Also, make sure you check for changes to the original config file in this package between releases.

This also creates a default locales migration in your database/migrations directory.

Locale Eloquent Model

This option locale is your full namespaced path for the Locale Eloquent object.

Locale Identifier Column

This option column is the column in your locales table which you want to compare the current set locale in your application. This column is compared with the App::getLocale() method to fetch the translations.

Fallback Support

This option fallback check whether you want to use the fallback translations if the current translation doesn't exist.

Documentation

Below we have examples of migrations, models, seeds and templates. There also is an example application that you can use as reference.

Migrations

Here's an example of the localisations migration.

Schema::create('locales', function(Blueprint $table)
{
	$table->increments('id');
	$table->string('language', 2); // en, sv, da, no, etc.
	$table->timestamps();
});

This example migration comes out of the box with this package. When you run endor:publish a default locales migration will be added to you database/migrations directory.

Add the Laravel migration for the base table which you want to translate.

Schema::create('articles', function(Blueprint $table)
{
	$table->increments('id');
	$table->string('thumbnail');
	$table->timestamps();
});

Add the Laravel migration for the translatable relation table.

Schema::create('article_translations', function(Blueprint $table)
{
	$table->increments('id');

	// Translatable attributes
	$table->string('title');
	$table->string('content');
	// Translatable attributes

	$table->integer('article_id')->unsigned()->index();
	$table->foreign('article_id')->references('id')->on('articles')->onDelete('cascade');

	$table->integer('locale_id')->unsigned()->index();
	$table->foreign('locale_id')->references('id')->on('locales')->onDelete('cascade');

	$table->unique(['article_id', 'locale_id']);

	$table->timestamps();
});

Models

Firstly you'll need to setup the Locale Eloquent model. Then add the Locale model path to the configuration file.

<?php

namespace Acme\Locales;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Locale extends Model
{
	/**
	 * @var array
	 */
	protected $fillable = ['language'];
}

Here's an example of a translatable Laravel Eloquent model. Remember to fill the $fillable array the translatable attributes.

<?php

namespace Acme\Articles;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Ngocnh\Translator\Translatable;
use Ngocnh\Translator\Contracts\Translatable as TranslatableContract;

class Article extends Model implements TranslatableContract
{
	use Translatable;

	/**
	 * @var array
	 */
	protected $fillable = ['title', 'content', 'thumbnail'];

	/**
	 * @var string
	 */
	protected $translator = 'Acme\Articles\ArticleTranslation';

	/**
	 * @var array
	 */
	protected $translatedAttributes = ['title', 'content'];
}

The ArticleTranslation basically is an empty Eloquent object.

<?php

namespace Acme\Articles;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class ArticleTranslation extends Model {}

Seed

Before you start to populate your database with translations you'll need to add languages to the locales table that you want to support. Below is an example seeder.

<?php

use Acme\Locales\Locale;
use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;

class LocaleTableSeeder extends Seeder
{
	public function run()
	{
		$languages = ['en', 'sv', 'no'];

		foreach ($languages as $language)
		{
			Locale::create(compact('language'));
		}
	}
}

Templates

That's it! You're done. Now you can do:

<h1>{{ $article->title }}</h1>
<img src="{{ $article->thumbnail }}">
<p>{{ $article->content }}</p>

If you want to fetch a specific translation that isn't the current one you can specify it in the translate method as in the example below.

<h1>{{ $article->translate('sv')->title }}</h1>
<img src="{{ $article->thumbnail }}">
<p>{{ $article->translate('sv')->content }}</p>

Example

If you want a working example you can visit the example respository for this package. It's a Laravel 5 application that utilies the translator package.

License

Laravel Translator is licensed under The MIT License (MIT).