Laravel 5.4 translation string doesn't work

Question

I'm new to laravel and I tried to use the translation string to do the localization work.

I have done the setlocale work and tested by using App::getLocale() which returned 'zh-cn'. (I have added a middleware which set the locale to it and added it to the kernel.php)

And I created the resources/lang/zh-cn.json and simply added {'a':'b'}

then I post an request from frontend to an controller which should return like

return response()->json([
    'status' => __('a')
]);

however I still get an response as {'status':'a'}. I don't know where the problem is, or if I misunderstood the way translation string works?

Answer 1

In JSON it is standard to use double quotes. If you change the single quotes to double quotes it will return the correct value of {"status": "b"} .

So your zh-cn.json file should look like this:

{
    "a": "b"
}