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douyasi/locator
===============

Browser Preferred Language Detector

1.0.3(9y ago)46.8k1MITPHPPHP >=5.5.9

Since Jul 13Pushed 3y ago1 watchersCompare

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Locator
=======

[](#locator)

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Description
-----------

[](#description)

Browser Preferred Language Detector, detect by browser `Accept-Language` request header.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Get [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/), then run in terminal:

```
cd /path/to/your-project
composer require "douyasi/locator:~1.0"
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Example in Laravel

[](#example-in-laravel)

```
Route::get('test', function () {
    $detector = app('Douyasi\Locator\PreferredLanguageDetector');
    return $detector->detect(['zh-CN', 'en']);
    //return $detector->get();
    //return $detector->get_languages(['zh-CN,zh', 'en', 'zh-TW'], ['0.8', '0.6', '0.4']);
});
```

> You can use `$detector->detect(['zh-CN', 'en'])` to replace `Request::getPreferredLanguage(['zh-CN', 'en'])` in Laravel.

API
---

[](#api)

### Detect your browser preferred language:

[](#detect-your-browser-preferred-language)

```
$langs = ['zh-CN', 'en'];  //available languages (i18n array) in your web project
$detector->detect($langs);  //return 'zh-CN' or 'en', according to your browser language preference.

```

### Get browser preferrend languages:

[](#get-browser-preferrend-languages)

```
$detector->get();

```

You can get some data (json format) like blow:

```
[
    {
        "priority": 80,
        "tags": "zh-CN,zh",
        "locales": [
            {
                "language": "zh",
                "region": "CN",
                "script": "",
                "variant1": "",
                "variant2": "",
                "variant3": "",
                "private1": "",
                "private2": "",
                "private3": ""
            },
            {
                "language": "zh",
                "script": "",
                "region": "",
                "variant1": "",
                "variant2": "",
                "variant3": "",
                "private1": "",
                "private2": "",
                "private3": ""
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "priority": 60,
        "tags": "en",
        "locales": [
            {
                "language": "en",
                "script": "",
                "region": "",
                "variant1": "",
                "variant2": "",
                "variant3": "",
                "private1": "",
                "private2": "",
                "private3": ""
            }
        ]
    },
]
```

Reference
---------

[](#reference)

- [http-accept-language](https://github.com/BaguettePHP/http-accept-language)

Copyright
---------

[](#copyright)

>
>
> Copyright (c) 2016 douyasi org by ycrao

###  Health Score

31

—

LowBetter than 66% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity23

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity61

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

3

Last Release

3638d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6f0bca08de3586af706a2ada29662ba46249150dce37ee138180020329eac204?d=identicon)[raoyc](/maintainers/raoyc)

---

Top Contributors

[![ycrao](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3280204?v=4)](https://github.com/ycrao "ycrao (11 commits)")

---

Tags

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