Option to disable translations

[Abdulmalik]

Hi!
Thank you for creating such a great package.

I (and many others as I imagine) would like to have the option to disable using translations.
Please vote if you need this functionality.

[Abdulmalik]

I've created a fork without translations as a temp solution.

[Ahmad]

+1

[Vesa Kauppinen]

+1

[Daniel Schweiger]

+1

[Leonid Lezner]

Hello guys,

I've a found a workaround for this issue: Setting the locale hardcoded to English. I don't like to copy&paste code from modules, so please give us the ability to deactivate translation.

This new function goes to your model:

public function syncTagsWithoutLocale($tags)
{
    $className = static::getTagClassName();

    $tags = collect($className::findOrCreate($tags, null, 'en'));

    $this->tags()->sync($tags->pluck('id')->toArray());

    return $this;
}

public function scopeWithAnyTagsWithoutLocale($query, $tags, $type = null)
{
    $tags = static::convertToTags($tags, $type, 'en');

    return $query
        ->whereHas('tags', function ($query) use ($tags) {
            $tagIds = collect($tags)->pluck('id');

            $query->whereIn('tags.id', $tagIds);
        });
}

And getting the name by

$tag->getTranslation('name', 'en')

[Freek Van der Herten]

If this can disabled in an easy, and testable way, I'd accept a PR for this. Closing for now as my team won't actively work on this. If you need this, please start a discussion in the ideas category.

[Sebastian Schöps]

My workaround: extend Spatie's tag model with an own tag model (make sure to set this in the package's config) and override the getLocale method:

public static function getLocale()
{
    return 'noi18n';
}

A PR to the original Tag model like the following should do the job:

public static function getLocale()
{
    return config('tags.uses_translations') ? app()->getLocale() : 'noi18n';
}

[Leonid Lezner]

@SebastianSchoeps it is actually not a workaround, but the updated way of doing it :)

[Sebastian Schöps]

Funny :-). Thanks for your PR! Well, maybe my post helps someone who doesn't RTFM like me but searches the issues...

[Symeon Tsitoglou]

In some projects (especially those that include international terms) we wish to avoid tag translation.
Since this is my case, I kept the translation feature by adding the tag translation on-the-go. Check it out:

        $words = array('apple', 'orange', 'kiwi', 'banana', 'strawberry');
        foreach($words as $word)
        {
            $tag = \Spatie\Tags\Tag::findOrCreate($word); 
            $tag->setTranslation('name', 'en', $word);
            $tag->setTranslation('name', 'el', $word);
            $tag->save();
            $photo->attachTag($tag);
        }

It will fill the database with entries like this
name ->{"el": "apple", "en": "apple"}
slug -> {"el": "apple", "en": "apple"}

This way, switching language from English to Greek, the content to be displayed will always be the same.
PLUS: I have the translation functionality available, for those cases where I actually need to do tag translation.
And all this without hacking or overriding the core code.