Fixing Laravel’s Notification locale issue

Originally posted — https://setkyar.com/laravels-notification-locale-issue

I was checking the locale issue on my own application and found out this interesting issue. I am using Laravel’s user-preferred locales for the notification translation. But, it keeps going with our application's default language. It does not use the user’s preferred locales.

https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/notifications#localizing-notifications
https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/notifications#user-preferred-locales

I keep trying out and testing out. And found out the issue. It was because I am using the translation on the construct. Not inside the channels. Like the following…

class UserAlert extends Notification
{
     use Queueable;
     protected $title;
     protected $body;
    /**
     * Create a new notification instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->title = trans('notification.title');
        $this->body = trans('notification.body');
    }

That’s causing the issue. I have to use the following. Inside the notification channel. Otherwise, it will keep using the application’s default language.

/**
 * Get the notification's delivery channels.
 *
 * @param  mixed  $notifiable
 * @return array
 */
public function via($notifiable)
{
    return ['mail'];
}
/**
 * Get the mail representation of the notification.
 *
 * @param  mixed  $notifiable
 * @return \Illuminate\Notifications\Messages\MailMessage
 */
public function toMail($notifiable)
{
    $title = trans('notification.title');
    $body = trans('notification.body');

That’s the issue with the Notification Locale. I hope this was helpful. I am not sure about others, I use to come back to my blog and read hahaha. Happy debugging.