Language switcher package for Laravel

This package allows switching locale easily on Laravel projects. It's so simple to use, once it's installed, your App locale will change only by passing routes into SetLanguage middleware.

Version Compatibility

| Laravel | PHP | Package | |---------|-----------|---------| | 5.8 | 7.2 - 7.4 | ^2.0 | | 6.x | 7.2 - 8.0 | ^2.0 | | 7.x | 7.2 - 8.0 | ^2.0 | | 8.x | 7.3 - 8.1 | ^2.0 | | 9.x | 8.0 - 8.2 | ^2.0 | | 10.x | 8.1 - 8.3 | ^2.0 | | 11.x | 8.2 - 8.4 | ^2.0 | | 12.x | 8.2 - 8.5 | ^2.0 |

Top features:

• Change automatically app locale depending on user browser configuration
• Language flags built-in for easy implementation
• Get language name like 'English' or 'Español' from codes such as 'en' or 'es'
• Option to choose short (en) or long (en-GB) language code
• Store locale on users table
• Restrict users to set languages you don't have translations
• Helper functions for clean, simple and easy to read API
• Supports Carbon and Date packages

Getting Started

1. Install

Run the following command:

composer require akaunting/laravel-language

2. Register (Optional - Laravel 5.5+ Auto-Discovery)

Note: Laravel 5.5+ automatically discovers the package. Manual registration is only needed for older versions.

For Laravel < 5.5, register the service provider in config/app.php:

Akaunting\Language\Provider::class,

Add alias if you want to use the facade:

'Language' => Akaunting\Language\Facade::class,

3. Publish

Publish config, migration and blade files.

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=language

Optional: Publish flag images for customization (only if you want to replace flag images):

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=language-flags

This will copy flag images to public/vendor/language/flags/ where you can replace them with your custom flags. The package will automatically use your custom flags if they exist, otherwise it will use the default package flags.

4. Migrate

Add locale column to users table:

php artisan migrate

5. Configure

Default values can be modified also on config/language.php

Keys

• route: Makes route available
• carbon: Sets briannesbitt/carbon translator language
• date: Sets jenssegers/date translator language
• home: Make home route available
• auto: Sets language automatically depending on user's browser config
• prefix: Prefix of routes URI to set locale
• middleware: default middleware to set locale
• controller: default controller to handle locale
• flags: Settings such as width, class etc for flags
• mode: The language code and name mode
• allowed: Allowed language codes
• all: Available language names and codes

Usage

Middleware

All routes in which you want to set language should be under the language middleware to set at each request to App locale.

Route::group(['middleware' => 'language'], function () {

    // Here your routes

});

URL

• Via URL with return home: /languages/{locale}/home
• Via URL with return back: /languages/{locale}/back

Tip: /languages prefix can be changed from config/language.php

Methods

language()->allowed()

Returns an array with [$code => $name] for all allowed languages of config. Example usage on blade:

@foreach (language()->allowed() as $code => $name)
    <a href="{{ language()->back($code) }}">{{ $name }}</a>
@endforeach

language()->flags()

Returns an output with flags for all allowed languages of config. Output can be changed from resources/views/vendor/language folder

language()->flag()

Returns the flag of the current locale. Output can be changed from resources/views/vendor/language folder

language()->names($codes = null)

Get an array like [$code => $name] from an array of only $codes.

language()->codes($langs = null)

Get an array like [$name => $code] from an array of only $langs.

language()->back($code)

Returns the URL to set up language and return back: back()

Also if you prefer to use directly route() function you can use it as following code:

{{ route('language::back', ['locale' => $code]) }}

language()->home($code)

Returns the URL to set language and return to home: url('/')

Also if you prefer to use directly route() function you can use it as following code:

{{ route('language::home', ['locale' => $code]) }}

language()->getName($code = 'default')

Returns the language name of $code if specified or the current language set if not.

Tip: Use app()->getLocale() to get the current locale

language()->getCode($name = 'default')

Returns the language code of $name if specified or the current language set if not.

Changelog

Please see Releases for more information what has changed recently.

Contributing

Pull requests are more than welcome. You must follow the PSR coding standards.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

• Cüneyt Şentürk
• Denis Duliçi
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see LICENSE for more information.