Multilingual Urls

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hello! I’m trying to create multilingual application. I’ve implemented ability of translationable content and next step should be showing it to user. I want to have ability of changing language depending on URL. I’ve found a couple of components for those purposes but they all create urls which I don’t like. For example, my application’s default language is English and I have content which is translated into French. I have page “contacts”, for instance. And URLs which will be generated by application will be: mysite.com/en/contacts, mysite.com/fr/contacts, but I want to have mysite.com/contacts for default language and mysite.com/fr/contacts for French language. It’s simillar for site’s root too. mysite.com/ - for default language and mysite.com/fr for French.

Is there any methods for implementing these functionality?

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provide additional routes that will handle default language routes (without language in URL, but with language provided as default parameter value in route definition).




//route with default language

'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>array( '<controller>/view', 'defaultParams'=>array( 'lang'=>'en' ) ),

//route with language

'<lang:[a-z_]{2,6}>/<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',

...

–edit

oh, and add ‘matchValue’=>true in CUrlManager configuration so it can select proper routes for any language…