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  Laravel Translatable
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 Version   v6

 Other versions for crawler [v6](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6)

- [ Introduction ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/introduction)
- [ Support us ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/support-us)
- [ Requirements ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/requirements)
- [ Upgrading ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/upgrading)
- [ Installation & setup ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/installation-setup)
- [ Questions and issues ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/questions-issues)
- [ Changelog ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/changelog)
- [ About us ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/about-us)

Basic usage
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- [ Getting and setting translations ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/basic-usage/getting-and-settings-translations)
- [ Removing translations ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/basic-usage/removing-translations)
- [ Replacing translations ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/basic-usage/replacing-translations)
- [ Querying translations ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/basic-usage/querying-translations)
- [ Validation translations ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/basic-usage/validating-translations)
- [ Handling missing translations ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/basic-usage/handling-missing-translations)

Advanced usage
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- [ Available events ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/advanced-usage/available-events)
- [ Customize the toArray method ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/advanced-usage/customize-the-toarray-method)
- [ Usage with factories ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/advanced-usage/usage-with-factories)

 Laravel Translatable
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A trait to make Eloquent models translatable
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Introduction
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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:

```
$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'
```