How to Create Multi Language Website in Laravel 8

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Today we see generally sites come with multi language. Inside this article we will see the concept to create Multi language website in Laravel 8. Multi language in laravel is termed as Laravel Localization.

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Let’s get started the concept of Laravel 8 Localization.

Installation of Laravel Application

Laravel Installation can be done in two ways.

Laravel Installer
By using composer

Laravel Installer

To install Laravel via Laravel installer, we need to install it’s installer first. We need to make use of composer for that.

$ composer global require laravel/installer

This command will install laravel installer at system. This installation is at global scope, so you type command from any directory at terminal. To verify type the given command –

$ laravel

This command will open a command palette of Laravel Installer.

To create ad install laravel project in system,

$ laravel new blog

With the name of blog a laravel project will be created at your specified path.

By using composer

Alternatively, we can also install Laravel by Composer command create-project.

If your system doesn’t has composer Installed, Learn Composer Installation Steps.

Here is the complete command to create a laravel project-

$ composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

After following these steps we can install a Laravel application into system.

To start the development server of Laravel –

$ php artisan serve

This command outputs –

Starting Laravel development server: http://127.0.0.1:8000

Assuming laravel already installed at system.

Language Localization – Creating Language Files

Language files are those files which stores key value pairs of texts.

As per the language, we need to create language folders in /resources/lang/<language-code>.

We are going to create 2 folders(en – English, es-Spanish) as per the language what we have taken. You can create these folders, as per your selected languages. You can name these folders as per the code of locale. Also these codes we will use into URL redirection in few minutes.

/resources/lang/en, /resources/lang/es

Next, we need to create language file which stores languages keys and respective texts. Creating message.php into all folders. This is user defined file name. It will use to call the keys.

/resources/lang/en/message.php – English Language

<?php

return [
    'page_title' => 'Welcome Page',
    'welcome_message' => 'Hi, Welcome to this page',
    'author_information' => 'My name is Sanjay. This blog is mine and we created this post for you to learn.',
];

/resources/lang/es/message.php– Spanish Language

<?php

return [
    'page_title' => 'Pagina de bienvenida',
    'welcome_message' => 'Hola bienvenido a esta pagina',
    'author_information' => 'Mi nombre es Sanjay. Este blog es mío y creamos esta publicación para que aprendas.',
];

Successfully, we have configured language files in their respective folders.

Configure Application Routes

Open web.php from /routes folder and write these codes into it.

<?php

use App\Http\Controllers\LocalizationController;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

Route::get('/', [LocalizationController::class, "index"]);
Route::get('change/lang', [LocalizationController::class, "lang_change"])->name('LangChange');

Create Application Controller

We need to create a controller for application. We are creating LocalizationController.php file at /app/Http/Controllers/.

$ php artisan make:controller LocalizationController

Open up the file paste the given code into it.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\App;

class LocalizationController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        return view('language');
    }
    public function lang_change(Request $request)
    {
        App::setLocale($request->lang);
        session()->put('locale', $request->lang);
        return view('language');
    }
}

On changing language with locale code, we are setting it’s value to App as well as we are putting into session. This will be used to detect which locale we are using.
session()->put() is used to save the locale code.

Blade Template – Layout Settings

Create a file inside /resources/views/. File name language.blade.php

Open up the file from /resources/views/language.blade.php and write the following code.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>How to Create Multi Language Website in Laravel - Online Web Tutor Blog</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
    <link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/4.0.0-alpha/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <div class="container">
        <div class="row" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 40px;">
            <h2>How to Create Multi Language Website in Laravel - Online Web Tutor Blog</h2><br>
            <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-3 text-right">
                <strong>Select Language: </strong>
            </div>
            <div class="col-md-4">
                <select class="form-control Langchange">
                    <option value="en" {{ session()->get('locale') == 'en' ? 'selected' : '' }}>English</option>
                    <option value="es" {{ session()->get('locale') == 'es' ? 'selected' : '' }}>Spanish</option>
                </select>
            </div>
            <h1 style="margin-top: 80px;">{{ __('message.page_title') }}</h1>
            <h2 style="margin-top: 80px;">{{ __('message.welcome_message') }}</h2>
            <h3 style="margin-top: 80px;">{{ __('message.author_information') }}</h3>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>

<script type="text/javascript">
    var url = "{{ route('LangChange') }}";
    $(".Langchange").change(function(){
        window.location.href = url + "?lang="+ $(this).val();
    });
</script>
</html>

session()->get(‘locale’) is used to get the locale value saved in session.
{{ __(‘message.page_title’) }}, here page_title key is read from message.php file so that’s why we have included message.page_title.
There are also several alternatives to print the translated value into the blade template files. {{ __(‘message.page_title’) }}, {{ trans(‘message.page_title’) }}, @lang(‘message.page_title’)
On selecting drop down value, we are redirecting page window.location.href = url + “?lang=”+ $(this).val(); On the basis of selected locale it picks the message.php file from either of /en/message.php or /es/message.php

Application Testing

Open project to terminal and type the command to start development server

$ php artisan serve

URL- http://127.0.0.1:8000

When we select Spanish language from dropdown, it will add a query string with the language locale code and we will see as

We hope this article helped you to learn about How to Create Multi Language Website in Laravel 8 in a very detailed way.

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