Internationalization configuration and changing languages

commun · September 21, 2015, 5:02pm

Hello,

1.I don’t understand when in guide they say yii\base\Application: language should be configured and they give an example of “ru-RU”. My question is what if I have 3 languages in which I have to translate (how can I configure that). SourceLanguage is English and languages to translate to are: Spanish, French and Portigues.

2.I would like the user to change the language of the application dynamically using a combobox or link but I wonder about how to send the parameter to server so that the server knows that the user required to change the language(for instance en to Spanish)

samdark · October 5, 2015, 5:33pm

github.com

samdark/yii2-cookbook/blob/master/book/i18n-selecting-application-language.md

Selecting application language
==============================

When developing applications or websites for global marked, supporting multiple languages is always a requirement.
Yii has built in solution for handling message translations but doesn’t provide anything about selecting a language
because implementation depends of requirements.

In this recipe we’ll describe some typical cases of language selection and provide ideas and code snippets so you’ll
be able to pick what’s required and implement it in your project.

## How to set application language

Setting application language is pretty simple. It can be done either via code like the following:

```php
Yii::$app->language = 'ru_RU';
```

or via application config such as `config/main.php`:

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amir.duran · October 6, 2015, 12:16pm

Here is also one good tutorial: http://code-epicenter.com/how-to-make-multilanguage-website-using-yii-framework/