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Make Eloquent model attributes translatables using Translations table

This package contains a trait to make Eloquent attributes translatable. Translations are stored in Translations database table.

Once the trait is installed on the model you can do these things:

$customer = new Customer; // An Eloquent model
$customer
   ->setTranslation('greeting', 'en', 'Hello')
   ->setTranslation('greeting', 'es', 'Hola')
   ->save();
   
$customer->greeting; // Returns 'Hello' given that the current app locale is 'en'
$customer->getTranslation('greeting', 'es'); // returns 'Hola'

app()->setLocale('es');

$customer->greeting; // Returns 'Hola'

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require latevaweb/laravel-translatable

If you want to change the default model or the default tables names, you could publish the config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="LaTevaWeb\Translatable\TranslatableServiceProvider" --tag=config --force

You must publish the migration file to create polymorphic and main translations tables:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="LaTevaWeb\Translatable\TranslatableServiceProvider" --tag=migrations --force

Making a model translatable

The required steps to make a model translatable are:

• First, you need to add the LaTevaWeb\Translatable\Traits\Translatable-trait.
• Next, you should create a public static property $translatable which holds an array with all the names of attributes you wish to make translatable.
• You have to create a field in the migration of your model type string and nullable.

Here's an example of a prepared model:

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

class NewsItem extends Model
{
    use Translatable;
       
    protected $fillable = ['greeting'];
    public static $translatable = ['greeting'];
}