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This package pulls in the framework agnostic Language Manager and provides seamless integration with Laravel 5.

• What is it?
• Installation
• Usage
• Requirements
• License

What is it?

Language manager: you can choose new language and it will be placed as App::setLocale($lang)

Language will be saved in SESSION and/or COOKIE

Also you can use URL

http://www.example.com/article/1?lang=en => http://en.example.com/en/article/1 

Installation

composer require zagovorichev/laravel-languages

Add to the app.php (by default in /laravel/config/app.php) lines:

'providers' => [
    // ...
    Zagovorichev\Laravel\Languages\LanguageServiceProvider::class,
]

And new middleware into the Kernel.php (look in /laravel/app/Http/Kernel.php)

protected $middlewareGroups = [
        'web' => [
            // ...
            \Zagovorichev\Laravel\Languages\Http\Middleware\LanguagesMiddleware\LanguagesMiddleware::class,
        ],
    ];

Usage

Language manager provides working with sessions, cookies, path and domain.

For changing system language send request with input lang. For example: ?lang=es and in application you will have Spain locale.

All configurations stored in the languages.php file.
For making your own configuration copy file /laravel/vendor/zagovorichev/laravel-languages/config/languages.php to the folder /laravel/config/.

Simple usage (SESSION + COOKIE)

If you need simple language manager you can use only 'session' and 'cookie' modes. Then you don't need to configure anything more.

Domain Map

For using DomainMapManger in your configuration file you should matched languages and domains

'domainMap' => [
    'en' => 'www.example.com',
    'es' => 'es.example.com',
    'ua' => 'www.example.ua',
],

⚠️ Notice: Please, use only DomainMap or Domain modes, otherwise the behaviour will be unpredictable.

Domain

Also you can provide regular expression in the configuration file.

'domainRegExp' => [
    'reg' => '|^(http://)([a-z]{2})[\.]{0,1}(example\.com.*)$|ui',
    'langPart' => 2,
]

And as a result you will have http://www.example.en/post/234 => http://en.example.com/post/234 => http://es.example.com/post/234

⚠️ Notice: Please, use only DomainMap or Domain modes, otherwise the behaviour will be unpredictable.

Path

Similar to domains, you can provide regular expression:

'pathRegExp' => [
     'reg' => '|([a-z]{2})(/.*)|ui',
     'langPart' => 1, // lang part will be replaced with new lang
 ],

Modes of the languages manager

Each store has its own manager.

• session - store in the $_SESSION
• cookie - store in the browser $_COOKIES
• domainMap - you can define map if you have different domain which can't be described with simple regular expression
• domain - use domain name for determining current language (www.example.com, en.example.com, es.example.com...)
• path - use uri for language example.com/en/address

Requirements

• PHP 5.6
• Laravel 5.3

License

This package is licensed under the MIT license