Automatically Translate

When your application is in production and you request for a translation that happens to be missing, the default action is to check if the translation exists in the fallback locale. If we are “lucky” we show a string in the fallback language.

This could be done better. With the auto translate feature we can try to translate the string in the fallback language to the requested language using a translation service like Google Translate.

Installation

To use this feature you need to install php-translation/translator.

composer require php-translation/translator

Note

If you are having issues installing. See Configure HTTPlug.

Configuration

# config/config.yaml
translation:
  # ..
  fallback_translation:
    enabled: true
    service: 'google' # One of "google", "yandex", or "bing"
    api_key: 'foobar'
  # ..

Usage

That’s it. You do not have to do anything more. It is however a good idea to add some aggressive caching on the responses from the translation service in order to remove the need of paying for the same translation twice. See how you Configure HTTPlug.