JSON Translation Helper for Laravel

JSON Translation Helper scans your project for __(), lang() translation helper methods and @lang directives, then it creates keys in your JSON translation files.

And yes, it avoids duplicates – helper creates only non-existing keys. Ready for your translation.

Installation

First, install JSON Translation Helper using the Composer require command:

composer require subotkevic/laravel-json-translation-helper

That's it. Package registers service provider automatically.

Usage

Translation files

First, you have to create your translation files for languages you will translate your application to.

For example, if you want your application to have a Spanish translation, you should create a resources/lang/es.json file.

Of course you can have multiple translation files:

resources/
    lang/
        es.json
        fr.json

Make sure that your translation files is valid JSON, otherwise our package will not work:

{
    "I love programming.": "Me encanta programar."
}

If you don't have any translations for now, just make sure your file is not empty, but actually an empty JSON object:

{}

Scan your application

Finally, to scan your application for missing translation keys just run:

php artisan translation:scan

Configuration

Publishing configuration

First, publish the configuration file:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="JsonTranslationHelper\TranslationHelperServiceProvider"

It will bring you config/translation-helper.php configuration file.

Read the following sections of what you can configure.

Directories

To specify where you want to scan for translation strings, just modify scan_directories array:

/**
 * Directories to scan for missing translation keys.
 */
'scan_directories' => [
    app_path(),
    resource_path('views'),
    resource_path('assets'),
],

File extensions

Our package scans only .php files out of the box.

You can add more file extensions to file_extensions array in the config/translation-helper.php configuration file to scan, let's say, .vue or .js files:

/**
 * File extensions to scan from.
 */
'file_extensions' => [
    'php',
    'js',
    'vue',
],

Translation helper methods

By default our package looks for lang() and __() translation helper methods and directives.

But you can extend, modify, or remove them in the config file by modifying translation_methods array:

/**
 * Translation helper methods to scan
 * for in your application's code.
 */
'translation_methods' => [
    'lang',
    '__',
],