keevitaja/linguist

Easy localization for the Laravel framework

3.0.0 2019-09-18 10:57 UTC

Requires

• php: ^7.2
• laravel/helpers: ^1.1

MIT

• Tanel Tammik

• php
• i18n
• laravel
• localization
• multilingual

README

This package provides an easy multilingual urls and redirection support for the Laravel framework.

In short Laravel will generate localized urls for links and redirections.

route('people') 

http://site.com/people
http://site.com/fr/people

Linguist works perfectly well with https://github.com/tightenco/ziggy named Laravel routes for javascript package!

Installation

Linguist is very easy to use. The locale slug is removed from the REQUEST_URI leaving the developer with the cleanest multilingual environment possible.

Install using Composer:

composer require keevitaja/linguist

There are several options to make Linguist work.

Option 1: Modify the public/index.php

Add following line after the vendor autoloading to your projects public/index.php file.

(new Keevitaja\Linguist\UriFixer)->fixit();

End result would be this:

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Register The Auto Loader
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Composer provides a convenient, automatically generated class loader for
| our application. We just need to utilize it! We'll simply require it
| into the script here so that we don't have to worry about manual
| loading any of our classes later on. It feels great to relax.
|
*/

require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';

(new Keevitaja\Linguist\UriFixer)->fixit();

Option 2: Use LocalizedKernel

Note: This option works only if you have not changed your applications root namespace. Default is App.

In your projects bootstrap/app.php swap the App\Http\Kernel with Keevitaja\Linguist\LocalazedKernel:

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Bind Important Interfaces
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Next, we need to bind some important interfaces into the container so
| we will be able to resolve them when needed. The kernels serve the
| incoming requests to this application from both the web and CLI.
|
*/

$app->singleton(
    Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel::class,
    //App\Http\Kernel::class
    Keevitaja\Linguist\LocalizedKernel::class
);

Option 3: modify the App\Http\Kernel

Note: This also works with custom root namespace.

<?php

namespace App\Http;

use Illuminate\Contracts\Foundation\Application;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Kernel as HttpKernel;
use Illuminate\Routing\Router;
use Keevitaja\Linguist\UriFixer;

class Kernel extends HttpKernel
{

    public function __construct(Application $app, Router $router)
    {
        (new UriFixer)->fixit();

        parent::__construct($app, $router);
    }

Publish config

Finally you need to publish the Linguist config to set your enabled locales and other relavant configurations.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Keevitaja\Linguist\LinguistServiceProvider"

Your personal configuration file will be config/linguist.php.

Usage

You can add the LocalizeUrls middleware your web middleware group as the first item to get the linguist support:

/**
 * The application's route middleware groups.
 *
 * @var array
 */
protected $middlewareGroups = [
    'web' => [
        \Keevitaja\Linguist\LocalizeUrls::class,

Note: This middleware has to be the first item in group!

Another option is to use Linguist in your applications service provider:

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * Bootstrap any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot(\Keevitaja\Linguist\Linguist $linguist)
    {
        $linguist->localize();
    }

UrlGenerator will add the locale slug in front of the URI when needed. No extra actions needed.

Route::get('people', ['as' => 'people.index', 'uses' => ''PeopleController@index'']);

{{ route('people.index') }} or {{ url('people') }}

http://site.com/people // default locale from linguist config
http://site.com/fr/people
http://site.com/ru/people

Switcher is a little helper to get the current URLs for the locale switcher.

$urls = dispatch_now(new \Keevitaja\Linguist\Switcher);

NB! Both config and route caching are working!

Assets

Use linguist helpers for a correct routing of assets

Regular Assets

<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ linguist_asset('css/style.css') }}">
<script type="text/javascript" src="{{ linguist_asset('js/my_js.js') }}"></script>

Secure Assets

<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ secure_linguist_asset('css/style.css') }}">
<script type="text/javascript" src="{{ secure_linguist_asset('js/my_js.js') }}"></script>

Queues

To make localization work in queues you need to run Linguist->localize($theLocaleYouWant) inside the queued item.

Licence

MIT