Ability to add comments that provide enhanced features about laravel-translatable-string-exporter HOT 3 CLOSED

@runthis Not at all. Thank you for suggesting ideas and good luck with your projects!

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Thank you @runthis for your feature request.

Let me address the two cases you mention one by one:

1. I recommend wrapping a string in the translation function as early as possible, so your first example would look like this:

$words = [__('hello'), __('world')];

2. For the second case, I would recommend using persistent strings:

{{ sprintf( __("Your name is %s and you are awesome!"), $name) }}

The comments you're proposing is nothing else than a new meta-language on top of what we already have, similar to PHP annotations, which I'm personally not a big fan of because it adds extra complexity to the language without significant benefits (IMO).

Let's ask other users of the project whether they need this feature by starting a simple voting process.
Folks, please comment with +1 if you need this feature.

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Thank you for this amazing tool, it definitely helped me get up and running on a project.

Unfortunately as it progressed, I needed strings inside of methods (like if a sprintf was used) and also inside of specific database tables and columns, among other features as mentioned above, and it all be automated, so I rolled my own artisan command that takes care of blade files, and pulling info from the database by creating my db schema in a way that makes it feasible. I'll continue using your awesome tool for other projects though!

In case anyone is curious on the regex. It is not perfect by all means, but it suits my scenario.
{(?:\s+?)?{(?:\s+?)?(?:.+?)?__\((?:\s+?)?(?:'|\")(.+?)(?:'|\")(?:\s+?)?(?:\)|,)(?:.+?)?(?:\s+?)?}(?:\s+?)?}

The regex explained:

{                    // Opening curly brace
  (?:\s+?)?          // Optional spacing
  {                  // Opening curly brace
    (?:\s+?)?        // Optional spacing
    (?:.+?)?         // Optional function
      __\(           // Begin translation function
        (?:\s+?)?    // Optional spacing
          (?:'|\")   // Single or double quote

            (.+?)    // Actual string to capture

          (?:'|\")   // Single or double quote
        (?:\s+?)?    // Optional spacing
      (?:\)|,)       // End translation function, basically
    (?:.+?)?         // Ending optional function
    (?:\s+?)?        // Optional spacing
  }                  // Ending curly brace
  (?:\s+?)?          // Optional spacing
}                    // Ending curly brace

We can close this feature request down for now. Thanks again!

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