Structuring Website Translation files

Question

I faced this problem several times while building websites. I will explain the using PHP and Laravel as an example but this problem is a common amoung multiple platforms. This w

Answer 1

I tend to group functionality in my Laravel apps into self-contained ‘components’. For example, I’ve been working on email campaign functionality for an application recently so put the service provider class, models, service classes in a folder at app/Email.

Bearing this in mind, I organise my translations in a similar fashion. So even though on this project we’re not translating strings, if we were I would create a resources/assets/lang/en/email.php file, and put translated strings for the email component in there.

So in another project, my directory structure might look like this:

• /resources
  • /lang
    • /en
      • auth.php
      • email.php
      • events.php
      • news.php
      • pagination.php
      • passwords.php
      • validation.php

Hope this helps.