Multi-Language Laravel: All You Need to Know

Another example of how we can add a language selector to our application is by using sessions and a DB table to store the user's preferred language.

This example will not use a URL to determine the language which will allow us to use the same URL for all languages.

Setup

Our setup process for Database stored language selection will touch these things:

• Configuration: Adding a language list to our configuration - this will be used to display the language selector
• DB Structure: Creating a new field on the users table called language
• Controller: Create a controller that will handle the language change
• Middleware: Add a middleware to handle language settings based on user's preferences
• Views: Adding a language selector to our views
• Routes: Adding a route that will allow us to change the language

Let's start with the configuration:...