README

This is a Laravel specific package designed to automate the translation of user generated content in a database driven fashion.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require rpwebdevelopment/laravel-ugc-translate

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="ugc-translate-migrations"
php artisan migrate

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="ugc-translate-config"

Configuration

This package offers you the option of using the free-to-use, zero configuration Google Translate package from Stichoza, or DeepL API, or Amazon Translate.

If leveraging the DeepL API you will need to add a valid DEEPL_AUTH_TOKEN to your .env.

If leveraging the Amazon Translate API you will need to ensure you have valid AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY and AWS_DEFAULT_REGION values set in your .env.

If you do not wish every record update/creation to trigger automatic translation, you can disable the observer by adding the following to your .env file:

UGC_AUTO_TRANSLATE_DISABLED=true

Sometimes you may only want translations enabled on a model if certain conditions are met, for example if a flag is set against the model instance, in order to achieve this you can add the method getHasTranslationsAttribute to the model returning a boolean value, i.e.

    public function getHasTranslationsAttribute(): bool
    {
        // your code here - returning bool
    }

You can update the config file ugc-translate.php in order to set any languages needed for translation:

    'translation-languages' => [
        'en-GB',
        'fr',
        'it',
        'de',
    ],

Usage

The package provides a new trait that can be used in order to apply automatic translations:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use RpWebDevelopment\LaravelUgcTranslate\Traits\HasTranslatable;

class Posts extends Model
{
    use HasTranslatable;
    
    protected $guarded = [];
}

In order to define translatable fields, and languages required for translation our models will now require a new property $ugcTranslatable defining the DB fields to be translated:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use RpWebDevelopment\LaravelUgcTranslate\Traits\HasTranslatable;

class Posts extends Model
{
    use HasTranslatable;
 
    public array $ugcTranslatable = [
        'title',
        'body',
    ];

    protected $guarded = [];
}

Unless you have disabled auto-translate, creating or updating a record within your model will cause translations to be generated and stored. The package leverages Laravel's locale in order to assert which language is to be returned. If we take our posts model above with the following record:

| id  | title           | body                    |
| --- | --------------- | ----------------------- |
| 1   | This is a title | This is the main text   |

You can achieve the following:

$post = App\Models\Post::find(1);

app()->setLocale('en_GB');
echo $post->title;
// outputs "This is a title"

app()->setLocale('it');
echo $post->title;
// outputs "Questo è un titolo"

app()->setLocale('fr');
echo $post->title;
// outputs "Il s'agit d'un titre"

Sometimes you may wish to output a specific language value without switching the application locale, this can be achieved using the following method:

$post = App\Models\Post::find(1);

app()->setLocale('en_GB');
echo $post->title;
// outputs "This is a title"

echo $post->localeField('title', 'it');
// outputs "Questo è un titolo"

echo $post->localeField('title', 'fr');
// outputs "Il s'agit d'un titre"

Sometimes you may not need all the default languages for every model, in order to override the default languages on a model you can simply add the getUgcLanguagesAttribute method to the model returning an array of locale codes:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use RpWebDevelopment\LaravelUgcTranslate\Traits\HasTranslatable;

class Posts extends Model
{
    use HasTranslatable;
    
    protected $guarded = [];
    
    public function getUgcLanguagesAttribute(): array
    {
        return ['en_GB', 'it'];
    }
}

If you use Livewire in your application there is a custom modal available for editing & locking specific translations, you can publish the modal component and view by runningg the following command:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="ugc-translate-livewire"

Once published you can add the modal into your project with the following tag:

<livewire:ugc.modal :model="$model" field="title" />

This will add a button to your blade template that will open the following modal:

Locking translations will prevent them from being automatically updated.

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Credits

• Rich Porter

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.