Translate PHP lang arrays with AI
Import Laravel-style PHP language arrays, let AI translate them with your glossary and context, review every string and export ready-to-use lang files.
Used by Laravel, CakePHP and most PHP applications.
What a PHP arrays file actually holds
Laravel, CakePHP and a long tail of PHP applications keep their copy in files that simply return an array. It is a pleasant format to work with in code and an awkward one to hand to a translator: the file is executable PHP, so most translation tools either refuse it or mangle it.
Because the file is code, the risk is not just a bad translation — it is a parse error that takes the whole application down. An unescaped apostrophe in a French string is enough. This is the format where "translate the file and see what happens" is the most expensive.
.php
<?php
return [
'welcome_title' => 'Welcome back!',
'welcome_subtitle' => 'Log in to continue',
'save' => 'Save changes',
];What goes wrong when PHP arrays files are translated badly
These are the failures that reach production, because none of them look like errors until they do.
Apostrophes break single-quoted strings
French and Italian are full of apostrophes. Dropped into a single-quoted PHP string without escaping, the file stops parsing and the page returns a 500.
:placeholders lose their colon
Laravel resolves :name at runtime. A model that reformats it — or translates the word after the colon — produces a sentence with a literal ":name" in it for every user.
Nested groups get flattened
Language files are often grouped by feature, several levels deep. Flatten them on export and every __() call in the codebase has to be rewritten.
The file gets executed to be read
Tools that include() a language file to inspect it will run whatever is in it. That is fine for your own files and a serious problem for anything you did not write.
How GetTranslated handles it
Import your PHP arrays file
AI translates with your glossary
Review and approve every string
Export and ship
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Is my PHP file executed when imported?
No. The file is read as text and tokenized, never included or evaluated. Importing a language file cannot run code.
Are quotes escaped correctly on export?
Yes. Apostrophes and backslashes are escaped for the quoting style used in the exported file, so the result always parses.
Do nested arrays keep their shape?
Yes. Groups are preserved with the same nesting and key names, so your existing translation calls keep working unchanged.
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