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Laravel Translation Manager

This package provides an easy way to manage your translations in a database. It takes all files from your default locale folder (e.g. resources/lang/de) and creates translation-groups (e.g. auth.php becomes translation-group auth) which are stored in translation_groups-table. Then every entry from each file will be saved to the translations-table (yes, it takes care of multidimensional arrays of every depth).

After you have finished translating, the package writes all entries back to the resource-folder. All entries will be kept in database, so you can keep translating.

Updates are handled one-way. That means that changes which are made to a file will not replace the value in the database. The other way round, the complete content of a translation-file will be replaced by the values from the database.

Pros:

• Laravels default translation-loader will not be replaced, so everything keeps working
• Works with every Laravel version (5.*)
• To add a new language, simply add it to your config/app.php and re-run php artisan translations:toDatabse, make your translations and run php artisan translations:toFile
• No more database exports! Develop locally without using the export function. Simply use your default language.

Installation

• require via composer composer require brotzka/translation-manager
• add list of available languages to your config/app.php:

'available_locales' => ['de', 'en', 'sv'],

• run migration php artisan migrate

Commands

translations:toDatabase

Call via:

php artisan translations:toDatabase

Collects all files and entries from within your resources/lang/ folder and generates translations-groups and translations and writes them to the database. Existing files will NOT be updated.

translations:toFile

Call via:

php artisan translations:toFile

Takes all entries from the database, generates missing language folders and translation-group files and puts the values to the files.

NOTE: If you want to call the commands via Artisan::call('translations.toDatabase'), you have to register both commands in app/Console/Kernel.php:

protected $commands = [
    // ..  other commands
    \Brotzka\TranslationManager\Module\Console\Commands\TranslationToDatabase::class,
    \Brotzka\TranslationManager\Module\Console\Commands\TranslationToFile::class,
];

Usage

In the back, this package creates two more models (TranslationGroup and Translation) tables (translation_groups and translations).

You can use them as you are used to use models in Laravel. The relevant namespace is: Brotzka\TranslationManager\Module.

You can query relationships like this:

• $translation->getParent: returns the parent-instance if existing (NULL if not)
• $translation->children: returns all children-instances
• $translation->getGroup: returns the translation-group of the current translation
• $translationGroup->entries: returns all entries belonging to the current translation-group

Future-Plans

• handle JSON-files
• provide some GUI-elements (e.g. language-switcher, translation-manager)