Translate Laravel Languages with Google Sheets

Laravel Translation Sheet is a package by Nassif Bourguig for translating Laravel language files using Google Sheets. What I love about this idea/package, is how easy it makes the process of collaborating on language translations with a standard tool like Google Sheets.

Related: Building a Laravel Translation Package

The way that you interact with Google Sheets is through a series of artisan commands and the Google Sheets API:

# Setup and prep commands
php artisan translation_sheet:setup
php artisan translation_sheet:prepare

# Publish translation to Google Sheets
php artisan translation_sheet:push

Once the translations are ready to go, you can use the pull command to pull the translations from the spreadsheet and write to the language-specific files in your Laravel application:

php artisan translation_sheet:pull

Using the pull command syncs the translations from Google Sheets the configured language translation files. You are free to do a diff on them through version control, test them out, and finally commit them to your application.

Once you receive translations and have pulled them into your application, you can lock the sheet to avoid conflicts:

# Lock the sheet to avoid conflicts
php artisan translation_sheet:lock

You can learn more about Laravel Translation Sheet on GitHub at nikaia/translation-sheet. To learn how to install and use the package, check out the project’s README file.

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Laravel Process Stamps Logs the Process Used to Update Models

 

Laravel Process Stamps is a package by Tom Schlick which makes it easy to track which process created or updated a model record in your database. The Laravel Process Stamps package makes this easy by adding the following trait to your models:

// User model
class User extends Model
{
    use ProcessStampable;

    // ...
}

When you create or save a new user in the example above, a new record will exist in the configured table (default table name is process_stamps) with a hash, process name, and type when a record gets created or updated.

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub at orisintel/laravel-process-stamps.

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Laravel Google Translate

 

Laravel Google Translate is a package that provides an artisan console command to translate your localization files with the Google translation API. You can either leverage stichoza/google-translate-php without an API key or configure your Google Translate API key.

The console command php artisan translate:files walks you through some prompts to determine how to proceed with your translations files:

Future goals of this package include handling vendor translations, a web interface, and adding other translation APIs such as Yandex, Bing, etc.

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub at tanmuhittin/laravel-google-translate.

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Junges Laravel ACL Packages

 

Junges Laravel ACL is a package by Mateus Junges that helps you to associate users with permissions and permission groups.

This package stores permissions for users and groups (to which users may belong) in the database with the following core features:

• Check a user for ACL permissions
• Sync a user’s permissions
• Sync a group’s permissions
• Check permissions in the view layer with @can or provided custom directives

At the heart of this package is the UserTrait:

use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Junges\ACL\Traits\UsersTrait;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use UserTrait;

    //
}

You can sync user and group permissions with the syncPermissions() method:

// With permission id array:
$user->syncPermissions([1, 2, 4]);

// With permission slugs array:
$user->syncPermissions(['permission-slug-1', 'permission-slug-2']);

// With instance of permission model arrays:
$user->syncPermissions([Permission::find(1), Permission::find(2)]);

// Just as above you can sync group permissions. Here's the id version:
$group->syncPermissions([1, 2, 4]);

Check out the usage documentation for a complete list of methods and package capabilities. You can learn more about this package and check out the source code on GitHub at mateusjunges/laravel-acl.

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Laravel Money

 

Laravel Money is a composer package by Ricardo Gobbo de Souza for working with and formatting money in Laravel projects.

Laravel money uses the moneyphp/money PHP package under the hood and gives you a bunch of helpers:

use Cknow\Money\Money;

echo Money::USD(500); // $5.00

This package includes a ton of advanced features for doing money operations, comparisons, aggregations, formatting, and parsing:

// Basic operations
Money::USD(500)->add(Money::USD(500)); // $10.00
Money::USD(500)->subtract(Money::USD(400)); // $1.00

// Aggregation
Money::min(Money::USD(100), Money::USD(200), Money::USD(300)); // Money::USD(100)

// Formatters
Money::USD(500)->format(); // $5.00

// Parsers
Money::parse('$1.00'); // Money::USD(100)

You can also create a custom formatter for your specific use-case:

Money::USD(500)->formatByFormatter(new MyFormatter());

Be sure to check out the advanced usage and included helper functions in the project’s README file. Also, check out the Money PHP documentation for complete details of what this package is capable of doing.

You can learn more about this package and check out the source code on GitHub at cknow/laravel-money.

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MailEclipse: Laravel Mail Editor Package

 

MailEclipse is a mailable editor package for your Laravel applications to create and manage mailables using a web UI. You can use this package to develop mailables without using the command line, and edit templates associated with mailables using a WYSIWYG editor, among other features.

You can even edit your markdown mailable templates:

When creating a mailable template, you can pick from existing themes provided by this package:

The best way to get an idea of what this package does is to install it and try it out or check out this five-minute demo from the author:

Note: the video doesn’t provide sound, but does give an excellent overview and demo of MailEclipse features.

At the time of writing this package is a work in progress and under active development. Part of being under active development means that if you’re interested, you’re encouraged to try this package out and provide feedback.

To start using this package, check out the source code and readme at Qoraiche/laravel-mail-editor on GitHub.

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Laravel Blade Filters Package

 

Blade Filters is a package by Gergo D. Nagy that adds the concept of filters to your blade templates. If you’re familiar with Django’s templating system or Symfony’s Twig templating language, the concept of a filter looks like this:

{{ 'john' | ucfirst }} // John

Alternatively, you could write the same thing like this in Blade without the concept of filters:

{{ ucfirst('john') }}

Chained usage is where I personally feel filters begin to shine over function calls:

{{ 'john' | ucfirst | substr:0,1 }} // J

{{ substr(ucfirst('john'), 0, 1) }}

More usefully, here’s how you’d use filters with a template variable:

{{ $currentUser->name | ucfirst | substr:0,1 }}

Finally, this package provides filters that leverage built-in Laravel APIs:

{{ 'This is a title' | slug }} // this-is-a-title

{{ 'This is a title' | title }} // This Is A Title

{{ 'foo_bar' | studly }} // FooBar

To learn more about this package—including installation instructions—check out the source code on GitHub at thepinecode/blade-filters. Also, the package author Gergo wrote a detailed article that explains how to build a custom ViewServiceProvider that you should check out!

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Eloquent Cloner Package

Cloner is a trait for Laravel Eloquent models that lets you clone a model, and it’s relationships, including files. Even to another database.

Here’s a basic example of a model using the Cloneable trait:

class Article extends Eloquent
{
    use \Bkwld\Cloner\Cloneable;
}

Here’s how you can clone a model instance, even to another database:

$clone = Article::first()->duplicate();

// Cloned to another database by connection name
$clone = Article::first()->duplicateTo('production');

A more advanced example includes defining which relationships cloned along with the model:

class Article extends Eloquent
{
    use \Bkwld\Cloner\Cloneable;

    protected $cloneable_relations = ['photos', 'authors'];

    public function photos() {
        return $this->hasMany('Photo');
    }

    public function authors() {
        return $this->belongsToMany('Author');
    }
}

Check out the documentation for full details on how you can also define how to clone files attached to a model. You can learn more about this app and check out the source code on GitHub at BKWLD/cloner.

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Laravel Search String

 

Laravel Search String is a package by Loris Leiva that generates database queries based on one unique string using a simple and customizable syntax.

Laravel Search String provides a simple solution for scoping your database queries using a human-readable and customizable syntax. It will transform a simple string into a powerful query builder.

Here’s a nice visual example of what this all means taken from the project’s readme:

Here’s a brief code example that is taken from the readme using the search string and the equivalent query builder:

Article::usingSearchString('title:"My blog article" or not published sort:-created_at');

// Equivalent to:
Article::where('title', 'My blog article')
       ->orWhere('published', false)
       ->orderBy('created_at', 'desc');

Check out the documentation for full details on the extensive search syntax and all the customizations you can make. You can learn more about this package and check out the source code on GitHub at lorisleiva/laravel-search-string.

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Laravel Custom Casts Package

 

The Laravel Custom Casts package by Vladimir Ković enables you to make your own custom cast types in Eloquent models:

Laravel custom casts works similarly to Laravel attribute casting, but with our custom defined logic (in separated class). Beside casting to our complex types, this package gives us the ability to listen and react to underlying model events.

Here’s an example model utilizing a custom cast class:

namespace App;

use App\CustomCasts\NameCast;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Vkovic\LaravelCustomCasts\HasCustomCasts;

class User extends Model
{
    use HasCustomCasts;

    protected $casts = [
        'is_admin' => boolean // <-- Laravel default cast type
        'name' => NameCast::class // <-- Our custom cast class (follow section below)
    ];
}

With the above model in mind, here’s an example of the custom cast class:

namespace App\CustomCasts;

use Vkovic\LaravelCustomCasts\CustomCastBase;

class NameCast extends CustomCastBase
{
    public function setAttribute($value)
    {
        return ucwords($value);
    }

    public function castAttribute($value)
    {
        return $this->getTitle() . ' ' . $value;
    }

    protected function getTitle()
    {
        return ['Mr.', 'Mrs.', 'Ms.', 'Miss'][rand(0, 3)];
    }
}

The $value in the setAttribute() method is the raw database value we want to store. This package also enables you to handle model events and react to those events.

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub at vkovic/laravel-custom-casts.

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