Multilanguage site with seo urls

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi,

I’m building a multilanguage website, where users can choose the language they prefer. I have extended CUrlManager and have build a widget for a form for language selection. Everything works fine, except in the url creation.

I need too have two different urls(patterns) for the same route, so in my config/main.php I have the following rules:


...

'rules'=>array(

                '<lang:\w{2}>/contact' => 'site/contact',

'<lang:\w{2}>/contato' => 'site/contact',

	'<lang:\w{2}>/<controller:\w+>/<action>'=>'<controller>/<action>',

			),

...

and I’m trying to use these urls:

www.mysite.com/en/contact

www.mysite.com/pt/contato

and both should go for the following site/contact, but when creating urls when it finds the first that matches it will stop looking in rules, and so I always get the first, even if I change language.

How can I achieve this?

Thanks in advance

2

I personally followed this wiki and it proved very useful: http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/294/seo-conform-multilingual-urls-language-selector-widget-i18n/

3

I’ve seen that already but the only part of the url that changes is the language, the rest doesn’t change, and that is my problem, but thanks for your help.

4

you can do this:


...

'matchValue'=>true,

'rules'=>array(

        '<lang:en>/contact' => 'site/contact',

        '<lang:pt>/contato' => 'site/contact',

        '<lang:\w{2}>/<controller:\w+>/<action>'=>'<controller>/<action>',

),

...
5

It was exactly this that i was searching for.

Thank you for your help.