# Multilingual Support

Estimated time: 8 minutes
Difficulty: Intermediate

LaraCoreKit ships with multilingual support for English, Hindi, and Arabic out of the box, including automatic RTL layout switching for Arabic.

Supported Languages

Locale Switcher

The LocaleSwitcher Livewire component (Core module) handles language switching:

@livewire('locale-switcher')

It stores the selected locale in the session and redirects back with the new locale active.

Component: modules/Core/src/Http/Livewire/LocaleSwitcher.php

Translation Files

JSON translations (recommended for UI strings)

lang/
├── en.json
├── hi.json
└── ar.json

// lang/hi.json
{
    "Welcome": "स्वागत है",
    "Log in": "लॉग इन करें",
    "Register": "पंजीकरण करें"
}

PHP translation files (for organized namespaced strings)

// lang/hi/auth.php
return [
    'failed'   => 'प्रमाण-पत्र इनमें से किसी से मेल नहीं खाते।',
    'throttle' => 'बहुत अधिक लॉगिन प्रयास।',
];

Using Translations in Blade

{{ __('Welcome') }}
{{ __('Hello, :name!', ['name' => $user->name]) }}
@lang('auth.failed')

Using Translations in PHP

__('Welcome');
trans('auth.failed');
app()->getLocale(); // 'en', 'hi', 'ar'

Detecting Current Locale

$locale = app()->getLocale();
$isRTL = in_array($locale, ['ar']);

Adding a New Language

1. Create lang/{locale}.json with translations:

// lang/fr.json
{
    "Welcome": "Bienvenue",
    "Log in": "Se connecter"
}

2. Add to the locale switcher options in CoreServiceProvider.php

3. If it's RTL, add to the RTL detection in your layout

SEO with Multilingual

Use hreflang tags for multilingual SEO:

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="{{ url('/en') }}">
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="hi" href="{{ url('/hi') }}">
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="ar" href="{{ url('/ar') }}">

Next Steps

RTL Support →