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It's a Laravel model columns translation manager

How it works?

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require fevrok/laravel-translatable

If you have Laravel 5.5 and up The package will automatically register itself.

else you have to add the service provider to config/app.php

Fevrok\Translatable\TranslatableServiceProvider::class,

publish config file and migration.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Fevrok\Translatable\TranslatableServiceProvider"

next migrate translations table

php artisan migrate

Setup

After finishing the installation you can open config/translatable.php:

return [
   /**
    * Set whether or not the translations is enbaled.
    */
   'enabled' => true,

   /**
    * Select default language
    */
   'locale' => 'en',

];

And update your config accordingly.

Making a model translatable

The required steps to make a model translatable are:

use the Fevrok\Translatable\Translatable trait.
define the model translatable fields in $translatable property.

Here's an example of a prepared model:

use Fevrok\Translatable\Translatable;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Item extends Model
{
    use Translatable;

    /**
      * The attributes that are Translatable.
      *
      * @var array
      */
    protected $translatable = [
        'name',
        'description',
    ];
}

Custom translations model

To get started, publish the assets again this will create new migration update table name to your desire.

CustomTranslation.php

class CustomTranslation extends \Fevrok\Translatable\Models\Translation
{
    protected $table = 'custom_translations';
}

Add $translations_model property and give it to the model you wanna customize,

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Fevrok\Translatable\Translatable;

class Item extends Model
{
    use Translatable;

    /**
      * The attributes that are Translatable.
      *
      * @var array
      */
    protected $translatable = [
        'name'
    ];

    /**
      * The model used to get translatios.
      *
      * @var string
      */
    protected $translations_model = CustomTranslation::class;
}

Usage

Eager-load translations

// Loads all translations
$posts = Post::with('translations')->get();

// Loads all translations
$posts = Post::all();
$posts->load('translations');

// Loads all translations
$posts = Post::withTranslations()->get();

// Loads specific locales translations
$posts = Post::withTranslations(['en', 'da'])->get();

// Loads specific locale translations
$posts = Post::withTranslations('da')->get();

// Loads current locale translations
$posts = Post::withTranslations('da')->get();

Get default language value

echo $post->title;

Get translated value

echo $post->getTranslatedAttribute('title', 'locale', 'fallbackLocale');

If you do not define locale, the current application locale will be used. You can pass in your own locale as a string. If you do not define fallbackLocale, the current application fallback locale will be used. You can pass your own locale as a string. If you want to turn the fallback locale off, pass false. If no values are found for the model for a specific attribute, either for the locale or the fallback, it will set that attribute to null.

Translate the whole model

$post = $post->translate('locale', 'fallbackLocale');
echo $post->title;
echo $post->body;

// You can also run the `translate` method on the Eloquent collection
// to translate all models in the collection.
$posts = $posts->translate('locale', 'fallbackLocale');
echo $posts[0]->title;

If you do not define locale, the current application locale will be used. You can pass in your own locale as a string. If you do not define fallbackLocale, the current application fallback locale will be used. You can pass in your own locale as a string. If you want to turn the fallback locale off, pass false. If no values are found for the model for a specific attribute, either for the locale or the fallback, it will set that attribute to null.

Check if model is translatable

// with string
if (Translatable::translatable(Post::class)) {
    // it's translatable
}

// with object of Model or Collection
if (Translatable::translatable($post)) {
    // it's translatable
}

Set attribute translations

$post = $post->translate('da');
$post->title = 'foobar';
$post->save();

This will update or create the translation for title of the post with the locale da. Please note that if a modified attribute is not translatable, then it will make the changes directly to the model itself. Meaning that it will overwrite the attribute in the language set as default.

Query translatable Models

To search for a translated value, you can use the whereTranslation method. For example, to search for the slug of a post, you'd use

$page = Page::whereTranslation('slug', 'my-translated-slug');
// Is the same as
$page = Page::whereTranslation('slug', '=', 'my-translated-slug');
// Search only locale en, de and the default locale
$page = Page::whereTranslation('slug', '=', 'my-translated-slug', ['en', 'de']);
// Search only locale en and de
$page = Page::whereTranslation('slug', '=', 'my-translated-slug', ['en', 'de'], false);

whereTranslation accepts the following parameter:

field the field you want to search in
operator the operator. Defaults to =. Also can be the value (Same as where)
value the value you want to search for
locales the locales you want to search in as an array. Leave as null if you want to search all locales
default also search in the default value/locale. Defaults to true.

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