Store all your translations in a single Excel file and immediately generate .po & .mo files from that using a single command.
- php 8.1
- composer
Just run composer install and you are done.
php artisan excel2po <domain> <excel> <destination>
| argument | purpose |
|---|---|
| domain | text domain for language files |
| excel | Excel spreadsheet |
| destination | directory for .po & .mo files |
Please refer to this Excel file as a reference on how to structure your translations spreadsheet. First row acts as a header specifying the language. Column named msgid is a hard requirement, it acts as a .pot file.
Why did I create this cli tool? Previously, I was using POEdit and it was more than enough. However, very recently I was faced with 2 issues:
- multiple languages
- existing process that rely on Excel
If you have to translate only few languages, POEdit is plenty. However, if you deal with, say 10+ languages, opening, saving closing get tedious very fast...
Not all organizations use POEdit and not everyone is in the capacity to change existing processes. Manually converting large Excel files into .pot and then generating .po/.mo from that is a length process...