Language switcher package for Laravel.

This package allows switching locale easily on Laravel projects. It's so simple to use, once it's installed, your App locale will change only by passing routes into SetLanguage middleware.

Top features:

Change automatically app locale depending on user browser configuration
Language flags built-in for easy implementation
Get language name like 'English' or 'Español' from codes such as 'en' or 'es'
Option to choose short (en) or long (en-GB) language code
Store locale on users table
Restrict users to set languages you don't have translations
Helper functions for clean, simple and easy to read API
Supports Carbon and Date packages

Getting Started

1. Install

Run the following command:

composer require akaunting/language

2. Register (for Laravel < 5.5)

Akaunting\Language\Provider::class,

Add alias if you want to use the facade.

'Language'   => Akaunting\Language\Facade::class,

3. Publish

Publish config, migration and blade files.

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=language

4. Migrate

Add locale column to users table:

php artisan migrate

5. Configure

Default values can be modified also on config/language.php

Keys

route: Makes route available
carbon: Sets briannesbitt/carbon translator language
date: Sets jenssegers/date translator language
home: Make home route available
auto: Sets language automatically depending on user's browser config
prefix: Prefix of routes URI to set locale
middleware: default middleware to set locale
controller: default controller to handle locale
flags: Settings such as width, class etc for flags
mode: The language code and name mode
allowed: Allowed language codes
all: Available language names and codes

Usage

Middleware

All routes in which you want to set language should be under the language middleware to set at each request to App locale.

Route::group(['middleware' => 'language'], function () {

    // Here your routes

});

URL

Via URL with return home: /languages/{locale}/home
Via URL with return back: /languages/{locale}/back

Tip: /languages prefix can be changed from config/language.php

Methods

language()->allowed()

Returns an array with [$code => $name] for all allowed languages of config. Example usage on blade:

@foreach (language()->allowed() as $code => $name)
    <a href="{{ language()->back($code) }}">{{ $name }}</a>
@endforeach

language()->flags()

Returns an output with flags for all allowed languages of config. Output can be changed from resources/views/vendor/language folder

language()->flag()

Returns the flag of the current locale. Output can be changed from resources/views/vendor/language folder

language()->names($codes = null)

Get an array like [$code => $name] from an array of only $codes.

language()->codes($langs = null)

Get an array like [$name => $code] from an array of only $langs.

language()->back($code)

Returns the URL to set up language and return back: back()

Also if you prefer to use directly route() function you can use it as following code:

{{ route('language::back', ['locale' => $code]) }}

language()->home($code)

Returns the URL to set language and return to home: url('/')

Also if you prefer to use directly route() function you can use it as following code:

{{ route('language::home', ['locale' => $code]) }}

language()->getName($code = 'default')

Returns the language name of $code if specified or the current language set if not.

Tip: Use app()->getLocale() to get the current locale

language()->getCode($name = 'default')

Returns the language code of $name if specified or the current language set if not.

Changelog

Please see Releases for more information what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email security@akaunting.com instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

License

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

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