Easy i18n localization for Laravel.

The package offers the following:

• Detect language from browser
• Smart redirects (Save locale in session)
• Smart routing (Define your routes only once, no matter how many languages you use)
• Option to hide default locale in url

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Register Middleware
• Usage
• Localization from database
• Recommended
• Helpers
• Caching routes

Laravel compatibility

Installation

Install the package via composer: composer require dongrim/laravel-localization

Config Files

In order to edit the default configuration you may execute:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Dongrim\LaravelLocalization\LaravelLocalizationServiceProvider"

After that, config/localization.php will be created.

The configuration options are:

• useAcceptLanguageHeader If true, then automatically detect language from browser.
• hideDefaultLocaleInURL If true, then do not show default locale in url.
• driver two drivers are supported to access (Default: config file) the list of locales:
  • The configuration file config/localization.php
  • database
• supportedLocales Languages of your app (Default: English & Spanish).
• localesMapping Rename url locales.

Register Middleware

You may register the package middleware in the app/Http/Kernel.php file:

<?php namespace App\Http;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Kernel as HttpKernel;

class Kernel extends HttpKernel {
    /**
    * The application's route middleware.
    *
    * @var array
    */
    protected $routeMiddleware = [
        /**** OTHER MIDDLEWARE ****/
        'localize' => \Dongrim\LaravelLocalization\Middleware\LocalizationMiddleware::class,
    ];
}

Usage

Add the following to your routes file:

// routes/web.php

Route::group([
    'prefix' => Localization::prefix(),
    'middleware'=>['localize']
], function(){
	/** ADD ALL LOCALIZED ROUTES INSIDE THIS GROUP **/
	Route::get('/', function(){
		return View::make('welcome');
	})->name('welcome');

    Route::get('test',function(){
		return View::make('test');
	})->name('test');
});

/** OTHER PAGES THAT SHOULD NOT BE LOCALIZED **/

Localization database

If you want to use the list of locales from the database change config/localization.php .

• specify driver
• set model_namespace
• set locale_key Then in the model responsible for this list:
• trait Dongrim\LaravelLocalization\Traits\Localizable

For example:

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Dongrim\LaravelLocalization\Traits\Localizable;
use Dongrim\LaravelLocalization\Contracts\Localization as LocalizationContract;

class Localization extends Model implements LocalizationContract
{
    use Localizable;
}

Recommended

Use named routes for more an easy way to access url localization.

<a href="route('welcome')">Welcome</a>
<a href="route('test')">Test</a>

A locale other than the default locale will be automatically added to the url

// when current locale en and default locale en

    http://site.com/
    http://site.com/test

// when current locale es and default locale en 

    http://site.com/es
    http://site.com/es/test  

Helpers

This package comes with helpers.

Locales collection

List of all available locales

<ul>
    @foreach(locales() as $locale)
     {{ $locale }}
    @endforeach
</ul>

Default locale

When you set useAcceptLanguageHeader = true, to find out the default language you need to use

@dump(default_locale())

Caching routes

To cache your routes, use:

php artisan route:clear