README

This bundle intends to ease Doctrine entity translations. Unlike most translations libraries, every translation is stored in the same table as the source entity.

Features

• Add translations without changing existing entities
• Translation fields are stored in the same table (no expensive joins)
• Supports inherited entities
• Handle more than just text fields
• Sonata admin integration
• Auto-population of translated relations

Install

Register the bundle to your 'app/AppKernel.php'

    new Umanit\TranslationBundle\UmanitTranslationBundle(),

Configure your available locales and, optionally, the default one

umanit_translation:
    locales: [en, fr, ja]
    default_locale: en

That's it!

Usage

Make your entity translatable

Implement Umanit\TranslationBundle\Doctrine\TranslatableInterface and use the trait Umanit\TranslationBundle\Doctrine\ModelTranslatableTraiton an entity you want to make translatable.

<?php

namespace AppBundle\Entity\Content;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Umanit\TranslationBundle\Doctrine\Model\TranslatableInterface;
use Umanit\TranslationBundle\Doctrine\Model\TranslatableTrait;

/**
 * HomePage
 *
 * @ORM\Table(name="page")
 */
class Page implements TranslatableInterface
{
    use TranslatableTrait;
}

Translate your entity

Use the service umanit_translation.translator.entity_translator to translate a source entity to a target language.

$translatedEntity = $this->get('umanit_translation.translator.entity_translator')->translate($entity, 'fr');

The $translatedEntity will be persisted.

Every attribute of the source entity will be cloned into a new entity.

Options

Usually, you don't wan't to get all of your entity's fields to be cloned. Some should be shared throughout all translations, some others should be emptied in a new translation. Two special annotations are provided in order to solve this.

@SharedAmongstTranslations

Using this annotation will make the value of your field identical throughout all translations. Also, if you update this field in any translation, all the others will be synchronized. If the attribute is a relation to a translatable entity, it will associate the correct translation to each language.

Note : ManyToMany associations are not supported with SharedAmongstTranslations yet.

<?php

namespace AppBundle\Entity\Content;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Umanit\TranslationBundle\Doctrine\Model\TranslatableInterface;
use Umanit\TranslationBundle\Doctrine\Model\TranslatableTrait;
use Umanit\TranslationBundle\Doctrine\Annotation\SharedAmongstTranslations;

/**
 * HomePage
 *
 * @ORM\Table(name="page")
 */
class Page implements TranslatableInterface
{
    use TranslatableTrait;
    
    /**
     * @var Application\Sonata\MediaBundle\Entity\Media
     *
     * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Application\Sonata\MediaBundle\Entity\Media", cascade={"persist"})
     * @ORM\JoinColumn(name="video_id", referencedColumnName="id")
     * @SharedAmongstTranslations()
     */
    protected $video;
    
}

@EmptyOnTranslate

This annotation will empty field when creating a new translation.

<?php

namespace AppBundle\Entity\Content;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Umanit\TranslationBundle\Doctrine\Model\TranslatableInterface;
use Umanit\TranslationBundle\Doctrine\Model\TranslatableTrait;
use Umanit\TranslationBundle\Doctrine\Annotation\EmptyOnTranslate;

/**
 * HomePage
 *
 * @ORM\Table(name="page")
 */
class Page implements TranslatableInterface
{
    use TranslatableTrait;
    
    // ...
    
    /**
     * @var Application\Sonata\MediaBundle\Entity\Media
     *
     * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Application\Sonata\MediaBundle\Entity\Media", cascade={"persist"})
     * @ORM\JoinColumn(name="image_id", referencedColumnName="id")
     * @EmptyOnTranslate()
     */
    protected $image;
    
}

Filtering your contents

To fetch your contents out of your database in the current locale, you'd usually do something like $repository->findByLocale($request->getLocale()).

Alternatively, you can use the provided filter that will automatically filter any Translatble entity by the current locale, every time you query the ORM. This way, you can simply do $repository->findAll() instead of the previous example.

Add this to your config.yml file:

#...
# Doctrine Configuration
doctrine:
    orm:
        filters:
            umanit_translation_locale_filter:
                class:   'Umanit\TranslationBundle\Doctrine\Filter\LocaleFilter'
                enabled: true

(Optional) Disable the filter for a specific firewall

Usually you'll need to administrate your contents. For doing so, you can disable the filter by configuring the disabled_firewalls option.

# app/config/config.yml
umanit_translation:
    disabled_firewalls: ['admin']

Advanced usage

You can alter the entities to translate or translated, before and after translation using the Umanit\TranslationBundle\Event\TranslateEvent

• TranslateEvent::PRE_TRANSLATE called before starting to translate the properties. The new translation is just instanciate with the right oid and locale
• TranslateEvent::POST_TRANSLATE called after saving the translation

Integrating into SonataAdmin

The bundle will automatically add translations widgets in SonataAdmin if you're using it.

• The list view will add two columns locale and translations.
• The edit button on the list view will show a dropdown to select the desired language to be edited.
• The tab menu on the edit view will have an entry to translate the edited content.

If you want to define a default locale for the admin, configure the default_locale.

umanit_translation:
    # ...
    default_locale: en

The admin will then show only the english contents on the list view.

Integration with DoctrineSingletonBundle

The bundle will automatically works with the Doctrine Singleton Bundle. If your singleton has the TranslatableInterface, it will be possible to get one instance per locale.