A Trait to handle Translations in Laravel

This is a Laravel package containing a trait for translatable Eloquent models. This package follows the approach to have only a single table to maintain all the translations.

This approach may not be perfect for every use case as the table can grow really big. But compared to all the other packages this approach is the most flexible as it lets you make models and its attributes translatable without extra configuration.

Alternatives to this package are following packages:

1. Spatie/laravel-translatable saves the translatable attributes as jsons
2. dimsav/laravel-translatable expects a new table for every new model that has translatable attributes

Requirements

This package require a minimum Laravel version of 5.8 and PHP in version 7.1

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require said/laravel-translatable:0.0.7

Now you can use this Trait on any Eloquent Model of your project.

Usage

To make your Eloquent Model translatable just add the Said\Translatable\Traits\TranslatableTrait to your model. Then add a public attribute$translatable_columns` as an array containing all the attributes that should be translatable.

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Said\Translatable\Traits\Translatable;

class MyModel extends Model
{
    use Translatable;
    protected $translatable_columns=[
        'name'
    ];
    protected $fillable=[
        'price'
    ];
}

Saving the translations in Controller

<?php

public function store(Request $request) {
    $data = [
       'en' => [
           'name'       => en-name
       ],
       'fr' => [
           'name'       => fr-name
       ],
    ];

    // Now just pass this array to regular Eloquent function    
    MyModel::create($data);
}

Methods

The simplest version of getting an translation is to simply get the property. This will return the value of the property in the current language

// assuming $myModel is an instace of MyModel class defined above
// and the translations are set
echo $myModel->name; // returns 'Product'
App::setLocale('fr');
echo $myModel->name; // returns 'Produit'

You can also use

$myModel->in('fr')->translate('name'); // returns 'Produit'

Getting the translated model

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Translating an Model

You can translate a model using ... soon Changelog

Check CHANGELOG for the changelog

Testing

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Contributing

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Security

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About Said Ibrahim

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License

The MIT License (MIT).