Translate in a specific language in Laravel

There are 3 ways to achieve this:

1. You can change default language at runtime by doing this:

App::setLocale('fr'); NB: This is not suitable for your current need as it will only take effect on next page load.

2. You can set default language here app/config/app.php

'fallback_locale' => 'fr'

3. I took a deeper look at Illuminate\Translation\Translator:

   get($key, array $replace = array(), $locale = null)

   This means you can do this using Translator Facade:

   Lang::get($key, array $replace = array(), $locale = null);

   Example:

   Lang::get('group.key',[],'fr');

NB: You folder structure should look like this

/app
    /lang
        /en
            messages.php
        /fr
            messages.php

To get a language specific translation - different from the current locales without setting and unsetting the locales, just do

__('description_1', [], 'en')