Partial translation fallback — to fallback_locale — using dimsav/translatable with Laravel.

Partial Translation Fallback with Laravel

  $translatableFallbackLocale = Config::get('translatable::fallback_locale');
  $project = Project::find($id);
  $project_default = $project->translate($translatableFallbackLocale);

  // Translations
  if(!$project->title) {
    $title = $project_default->title;
  } else {
    $title = $project->title;
  }

  if(!$project->abstract) {
    $abstract = $project_default->abstract;
  } else {
    $abstract = $project->abstract;
  }

  if(!$project->text) {
    $text = $project_default->text;
  } else {
    $text = $project->text;
  }

  // Render
  echo '<h1>'.$title.'</h1>'
      .Markdown::string($abstract)
      .Markdown::string($text);