How to access my lang files from controller in laravel 5

Question

Converting from Laravel 4 to Laravel 5. Trying to access Lang file in controller like so:

$var = Lang::get('directory/index.str1');

That gives me: Class 'App\Http\Controllers\Lang' not found. However

{{Lang::get('directory/index.str1');}}

Works fine in a view

Answer 1

You can as well use the __ helper (Works for Laravel 5.5, 5.6 and 5.7 ... not sure about the other versions). e. g if your array of strings are stored in a file called messages.php inside lang directory, to get a string with the key myString, use the following in the controller:

__('messages.myString');

In blade template you would use:

@lang('messages.myString')