# A trait to make Eloquent models translatable

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This package contains a trait to make Eloquent models translatable. Translations are stored as json. There is no extra table needed to hold them.

Once the trait is installed on the model you can do these things:

```php
$newsItem = new NewsItem; // This is an Eloquent model
$newsItem
   ->setTranslation('name', 'en', 'Name in English')
   ->setTranslation('name', 'nl', 'Naam in het Nederlands')
   ->save();

$newsItem->name; // Returns 'Name in English' given that the current app locale is 'en'
$newsItem->getTranslation('name', 'nl'); // returns 'Naam in het Nederlands'

app()->setLocale('nl');

$newsItem->name; // Returns 'Naam in het Nederlands'
```

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## Documentation

All documentation is available [on our documentation site](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable).

## Testing

```bash
composer test
```

## Contributing

Please see [CONTRIBUTING](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.

## Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email freek@spatie.be instead of using the issue tracker.

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## Credits

- [Freek Van der Herten](https://github.com/freekmurze)
- [Sebastian De Deyne](https://github.com/sebastiandedeyne)
- [All Contributors](../../contributors)

We got the idea to store translations as json in a column from [Mohamed Said](https://github.com/themsaid). Parts of the readme of [his multilingual package](https://github.com/themsaid/laravel-multilingual) were used in this readme.

## License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE.md) for more information.