Yet Another Laravel Translator

Warning: this package is actively developed, be careful

Requires

• PHP 7.*
• Laravel 5.* (Only tested with 5.4)

Installation

Package

composer require shanginn/yalt

Add the service provider to config/app.php

'providers' => [
	//...
	Shanginn\Yalt\YaltServiceProvider::class,
]

Migrations

By default suffix for translatable table is set to ll, so for example translations table for things table should be named things_lls.

You can change this suffix in the config file (translation_suffix).

php artisan make:migration create_things_localizations_table

Let's assume you need translatable title and description for the Thing. Open up your migration and edit up method like this:

// database/migrations/2017_02_20_200652_create_things_localizations_table.php

public function up()
{
	Schema::create('things_lls', function (Blueprint $table) {
		$table->increments('id');
		$table->char('locale', 2)->index();
		$table->integer('thing_id')->index();
		$table->string('title');
		$table->string('description');

		$table->unique(['thing_id', 'locale']);

		$table->foreign('thing_id', 'thing_idx')
			->references('id')->on('things')
			->onDelete('cascade')
			->onUpdate('cascade');
	});
}

Model

All you need to do to make Thing model translatable is to import Translatable trait, use it and define translatable fields.

// App/Thing.php
//...
use Shanginn\Yalt\Eloquent\Concerns\Translatable;

class Thing extends Model
{
	use Translatable;
	
	protected $translatable = ['title', 'description'];
//...

That's it! No models, no relations. Pure magic.

Middleware

If you want to change current app locale based on 'Accept-Language' header, register locale middleware in the Http/Kernel.php.

// Http/Kernel.php
//...
protected $routeMiddleware = [
//...
	'locale' => \Shanginn\Yalt\Http\Middleware\Localization::class,
//...
]

And apply it to some routes.

Usage

Thing::create([
	'title' => [ // Explicit locale definition for title
		'en' => 'Title in english',
		'ru' => 'Русский заголовок'
	],
	// Use default locale for description
	'description' => 'Description in the default locale'
])

Sorry. That's it for now. More info coming... Take a look into sources.

TODO

• [x] Write basic info here
• [ ] Write more info here
• [ ] Create tests
• [ ] Test all provided functional
• [ ] Add artisan command to create migrations for Translatable models
• [ ] Replace id PK with [item_id, locale] composite PK in _lls table
• [ ] Add ability to choose between plural and single table suffix (ex. things_lls vs thing_lls)

Additional info

Based on dimsav/laravel-translatable. But I was too lazy to create the same model for every translatable thing so I rewrote this package almost completely.

Feel free to contribute in any way!