---
title: "Events — Translatable for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Opt in to one TranslationsChanged event per save — queue an AI fill of missing locales or bust caches without overriding the model."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/translatable-for-laravel/events
language: en
---

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# Events

Add the DispatchesTranslationEvents trait to have the model dispatch a single TranslationsChanged event once per persisted save when any translatable attribute changed. The base HasTranslations trait stays side-effect-free — nothing fires unless you opt in:

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\Translatable\Concerns\DispatchesTranslationEvents;
use RoundlyConsulting\Translatable\Concerns\HasTranslations;

final class Topic extends Model implements Translatable
{
    use HasTranslations;
    use DispatchesTranslationEvents;
    // …
}
```

On create, the changed attributes are those with a non-empty map; on update, the translatable attributes that actually changed. A save that only touches non-translatable columns dispatches nothing. “Changed” means the decoded map changed: PostgreSQL and MySQL hand JSON back re-spaced and key-reordered, and re-saving an unchanged map is neither an UPDATE nor an event on any engine.

## Listening

The event carries the model and the list of changed attribute names — ideal for queuing an AI service to fill missingLocales() or for busting a cache:

```php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Event;
use RoundlyConsulting\Translatable\Events\TranslationsChanged;

Event::listen(TranslationsChanged::class, function (TranslationsChanged $event): void {
    foreach ($event->changedAttributes as $attribute) {          // list<string>
        if ($event->model->missingLocales($attribute) !== []) {
            FillMissingTranslations::dispatch($event->model, $attribute);
        }
    }
});
```

| Property | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `model` | Model | The saved model (a Translatable). |
| `changedAttributes` | list<string> | Translatable attributes that changed in this save. |

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