makth/laravel-db-language

Laravel command to add language fields on database

Laravel DB Language

This package gives you an easy way to generate automatically all language fields on database, using Laravel 5 command. If you have on database fields like body_en and you want to create new like body_it you can use this package to create it., _(*1)

Installing

First, pull in the package through Composer., _(*2)

composer require makth/laravel-db-language 

or, _(*3)

"require":{
    "makth/laravel-db-language": "2.0"
}

Next, open config/app.php, and include service provider., _(*4)

'providers' => [
    Makth\DbLanguage\DbLanguageServiceProvider::class,
];

And, for convenience, add a facade alias to the same file at the bottom:, _(*5)

'aliases' => [
    'Lang' => Makth\DbLanguage\Facade\Lang::class,
];

Usage

Add a language

php artisan language:add German

Remove a language

php artisan language:remove German

Default language

You can set your default language using option --default. For example:, _(*6)

php artisan language:add German --default="English"

If you want to have more than one languages, you set your main (already installed) language as default, and you add the other languages., _(*7)

Config

You can publish config file lang.php, and set your default language there., _(*8)

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=config

Language Field

You can have form fields with multiple languages., _(*9)

Step 1

Export css files to public folder., _(*10)

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=flags

Step 2

Add in your blade file, on head tag:, _(*11)

@include('lang::style')

And at the bottom of the body:, _(*12)

@include('lang::script')

And now you can get the form field with all installed languages like this:, _(*13)

{{ Lang::fields(
    'table_name',
    'field_name', 
    ['first_language_value', 'second_language_value'], 
    null,
    ['placeholder' => 'Name', 'required' => 'required']
    ) 
}}

• table_name : the name of the db table.
• field_name : the name of table field, without language extension.
• the third parameter is an array with languages values.
• the fourth parameter used to sets manual the default language.
• the fifth parameter is an array with extra attributes for the fields.

For form fields used twitter bootstrap, and for the flags this package., _(*14)

Authors

• Makis Thomas

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details., _(*15)