Show records related to app locale setting.

[William Hughes]

Is it possible to pull and display records stored in the database that is related to the app's locale setting.

i.e. I have a table of articles in different languages, so some are in English but not French and vice versa. When my app is set to English I would like my articles view to display the English articles only, when in French the French articles only etc.

    public function index()
    {
        $articles = Article::all();
        $locale = \App::getLocale();
        foreach($articles as $article)
        {
            $object = $article->getTranslations('title');
            if(isset($object[$locale]))
                $goodArticles[] = $article;
        }

        return view('articles.index')->with([
            'articles' => $goodArticles,
        ]);
    }

The above code is finding articles which are in the app's current locale by checking if the $object has a title in that locale. If an article exists in that locale it will be returned, if it doesn't it will not be returned.

For now I have this temporary fix, which will work for a small number of values in the databse. However, as the database gets bigger (there will be thousands of entries eventually) this will become a problem as it will have to run this loop every time, ultimately slowing down the app.

[Freek Van der Herten]

This is not handled by the package.

I would add a scope named hasTranslations(string $locale) to my project and add manipulate the query there to only return records of the given locale.