README

A simple GUI for Laravel Translation.

This package will allows you to take control of lang files in Laravel infrastructre . it will also allows you to translate user inputs (models or database columns data)

Installation

So simple just run composer require motwreen/translation in your application terminal.

Publish

If you'd like to edit package views run php artisan vendor:publish --tag=motwreen-translation in your terminal and you'll find it in this path : resources/views/vendor/translation.

Routes

you can include translations routes in your application like this in web.php file.

$options = ['prefix'=>'admin/translation/','middleware'=>['web','auth:admin']];
Translations::routes($options);

Migrate

To migrate database tables run php artisan migrate

Using GUI

• after installation you can access translation gui with http://app-url.dev/translation.
• create your languages and translate them.
• you can use (.) dot syntax to defind multidimensional array in lang file like this in key field:

level1.level2.level3.level4.etc

which will produce this result in lang file

'level1' => [
        'level2' => [
            'level3' => [
                'level4' => 'etc',
            ],
        ],
    ],

Database translation

• To start using database translations in your models use this trait Motwreen\Translation\Traits\TranslatableTrait.
• define a protected $translatable array in your model class like this :

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Motwreen\Translation\Traits\TranslatableTrait;

class Category extends Model
{
    use TranslatableTrait;

    protected $translatable = ['name'];
}

And in your controller :

public function store(Request $request){
    $category = new App\Category;
    $category->name => ['en'=>'Test Name','du'=>'Miene name ist Test'];
    $category->description => ['en'=>'Test Description','du'=>'Miene name ist Description'];
    $category->save();
}