gentor / polyglot
Laravel localization helpers and models
Requires
- php: >=5.4.0
- illuminate/container: ~4.2
- illuminate/support: ~4.2
Requires (Dev)
- fabpot/php-cs-fixer: 2.0.*@dev
- illuminate/database: ~4.2
- illuminate/routing: ~4.2
- illuminate/translation: ~4.2
- mockery/mockery: ^0.9.4
- patchwork/utf8: ^1.2
- phpunit/phpunit: ^4.7
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Last update: 2024-12-09 03:54:26 UTC
README
Introduction
Polyglot is a localization helper for the Laravel framework, it's an helper class to localize your routes, models and views.
To install it, do composer require anahkiasen/polyglot
, then add Polyglot\PolyglotServiceProvider
to the providers
array in app/config/app.php
.
Publish config to your laravel app : php artisan vendor:publish --provider=Polyglot\PolyglotServiceProvider
Model localization
Using the polyglot trait on a model will allow you to make fields speak several languages. Polyglot requires you to separate common fields from localized ones assuming the following common pattern :
Take the example of a blog article model
TABLE articles
id INT
category_id INT
created_at DATETIME
updated_at DATETIME
TABLE article_langs
id INT
title VARCHAR
content TEXT
article_id INT
lang ENUM
From there you can either access any language easily by doing the following : $article->fr->title
.
Or you can add the following parameter to your model and let Polyglot automatically translate attributes.
class Article extends Model { use Polyglot\Polyglot; protected $polyglot = ['title', 'content']; } // Get an automatically localized Article $article = Article::find(4) echo $article->fr->title // This will print out the french title echo $article->title // This will print out the title in the current language
Polyglot also helps you saving localized attributes :
$article->fill([ 'title' => 'Titre', 'content' => 'Contenu', 'lang' => 'fr', ])->save(); // Is the same as $article->fr->fill([ 'title' => 'Titre', 'content' => 'Contenu', ])->save();
Globally speaking when Polyglot sees you're trying to save localized attribute on the parent model, it will automatically fetch the Lang model and save them on it instead.
If no lang
attribute is passed, Polyglot will use the current language.
Note that, as your attributes are now split into two tables, you can Polyglot eager load the correct Lang relation with the withLang
method.
Per example Article::withLang()->get()
will return Articles with fr
autoloaded if it's the current language, or en
, according to app.locale
.
Routes localization
To localize your routes, you need to set the locales
option in your config file, per example array('fr', 'en')
. Now you may define your routes as such :
Route::groupLocale(['before' => 'auth'], function() { Route::get('/', 'HomeController@index'); Route::get('articles', 'ArticlesController@index'); // etc... });
Now you can access /fr
and /fr/articles
, or /en
and /en/articles
– Polyglot will recognize the locale in the URL and automatically set your app in that language.
There is also a default
option in the config file, setting that option to a locale like 'default' => 'fr'
will make the root URLs point to that locale. So accessing /articles
without prefixing it with a locale would render the page in french.
Views localization
Views localization work by setting up gettext for you and providing two commands to extract translations from your views to PO files and compile those to MO files.
This is currently only possible for Twig but will soon for Blade and classic PHP files, and will require the twig/extensions
package which adds gettext support for Twig.
To use simply configure your domain in the configuration, then run php artisan lang:extract
.
Locales helpers
Polyglot also provide various locale helpers hooked into the Lang
and URL
class you know and love :
URL::locale() // Returns the locale in the current URL URL::switchLanguage('fr') // Returns the current url with different locale Lang::active('fr') // Check if fr is the current locale Lang::setInternalLocale('fr') // Set both the locale with the Translator class and setlocale method Lang::valid('fr') // Check if a locale is valid Lang::sanitize('fr') // Returns the locale if valid, or the default locale if not