itx-technologies/artisan-resx-to-lang

Laravel-Resx-Converter

Convert your .NET resource files to Laravel language files, _(*1)

Instalation

The first step is to install the package through Composer, for that require "itx-technologies/artisan-resx-to-lang" in your composer.json file, _(*2)

  "require-dev": {
    "itx-technologies/artisan-resx-to-lang": "~2.0"
  }

Then update composer from the command line, _(*3)

    composer update --dev

And finally add the following to the providers array of the /app/config/app.php file, _(*4)

    'ItxTechnologies\ArtisanResxToLang\ArtisanResxToLangServiceProvider',

You can then call php artisan to see the installed resxToLang command, _(*5)

Usage

First of all, make sure that the folders for every language you are trying to convert are present in your /app/lang directory. Then, make sure that the base language, the one in the flat [name].resx files, is set as your fallback locale in /app/config/app.php. Finally, transfer your .resx files in a folder called resx in your public folder. When that is done, simply call the command from the command line:, _(*6)

    php artisan resxToLang [filename]

When entering the filename, don't add the .resx., _(*7)

The command will do it's magic, once it's finished, you can open your app/lang/[locale] folder and see a file named [filename].php that includes every string from your original resx file. In the other locale folders, you will see the same php file containing the same strings in that language., _(*8)

Translating locale lines from C# to Laravel

if you used the razor templating engine in your original C# project, the translation is really fast. A line that looked like this:, _(*9)

    @Resources.File.String

becomes:, _(*10)

    @lang('file.String')

in a blade file or:, _(*11)

    echo Lang::get('file.String');

in a php block., _(*12)

Please note that the file names are all lowercased during the conversion but not the string name, _(*13)