Introduction ​

Setting the locale in Laravel is not enough most of the time, some countries use more than one language. Also, different countries use different date notations formats despite their language. Proper localization gives us many challenges. This package will help you out with new tools in your tool belt.

In a nutshell ​

• You can set all supported languages and countries of your choice and make use of all the tools and data that are available in this package.
• It will automatically try to find the best match for the user based on the browser settings when a user first visits your app.
• It has a smart fallback.
• It provides a middleware that will set the locale and the country of the user.
• It provides an (optional) language switcher that is based on countries (with flags) and not only on languages. So for some countries, it will even show multiple languages. (Read more)
• It provides you with date/time helpers.
• It provides you with language helpers
• It provides you with currency helpers.
• It will store the users preferred language and country in the database.
• And more...

I've also written an article about it here.

What will it do? ​

For each user or guest it will create a four character lang_country code. For guests, it will try to make a perfect match based on the browser settings. For users, it will load the last used lang_country, because we will store it in the DB.

There will ALWAYS be two sessions set:

• lang_country (example: nl-BE)
• locale (examples: nl, en, fr, es, de, ...)

When a user will log in to your app, it will load the last lang_country and set the sessions accordingly.