yiic tool + multilanguage

Archives Yii 1.0.x Discussions
1

I've only just started using Yii, before that I was using Zend Framework, which I found too slow for the applications I'm developing.

I couldn't find the answer to my question anywhere:

  1. The yiic tool allows for model and crud creation, but I don't see how it's possible to create them inside a module? Do you have to move them manually after creation?

  2. (Offtopic) I've read the posts on the forum about making multilanguage site. One of the ways sugguested was catching onbeginRequest, but I couldn't find in the manual "the proper way of doing it". I've done it this way:

protected/components/LangEvent.php:



<?php





class LangEvent extends CComponent 


{


	public function setLanguage($event)


	{


		$languages = array('ua', 'ru', 'en', 'de');


		


		$suffix = $event->sender->getUrlManager()->urlSuffix;


		$path = substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], strlen(Yii::app()->request->baseUrl) + 1);


		


		if (stristr($path, $suffix))


		{


			$path = substr($path, 0, strlen($path) - strlen($suffix));


		}


		


		$path = explode('/', $path);


		


		if (in_array($path[0], $languages))


		{


			Yii::app()->setLanguage($path[0]);


			unset($path[0]);


			


			Yii::app()->session['language'] = Yii::app()->getLanguage();


			Yii::app()->request->redirect(Yii::app()->request->baseUrl . '/' . implode('/', $path) . $suffix);


		}


		elseif (Yii::app()->session['language'])


		{


			Yii::app()->setLanguage(Yii::app()->session['language']);


		}


		elseif (Yii::app()->user->hasProperty('language'))


		{


			Yii::app()->setLanguage(Yii::app()->user->language);


		}


		else


		{


			Yii::app()->setLanguage($languages[0]);


		}


		


		$event->handled = true;


	}


}

index.php



...


require_once($yii);


$app = Yii::createWebApplication($config);


$app->onbeginRequest = array('LangEvent', 'setLanguage');


$app->run();

a) Is this the "correct" way of doing this?

B) Is it possible to move $languages array in the configuration option, as a custom configuration option?

2

Good questions.

  1. Currently yiic tool only works for application, not module. I plan to enhance it in the next release.

  2. Yii doesn't enforce the way to set the current language. What you did is definitely a possible solution. I would prefer to write a base controller class and put this piece of code into the init() method of the base controller.

Do you mean adding a new property "languages" to store the list of valid languages? If yes, I suggest you declare this as an application parameter by storing it in the 'params' property in the app config.

3

Thanks for such a quick reply! Your answers were helpfull. I'm making changes in regard to them. Looking through my source I found another question: I have 3 modules, and all the controller I need are in them. Is it possible to set a default module and default controller inside that module, i.e: I have "torism", "transport", "admin". And when the user enters my site I would like them to be pointed to tourism/default/index. Currently I have SiteController.php and index action, which redirects them there. Is it possible to do through configuration without the need of this controller?

4

You can set 'defaultController' property in app config to be 'moduleID/controllerID'.

5

I know this topic is from a while back, but I still have problems with multi-language. After moving the code to BaseController and extending all the controllers from this BaseController the controller isn’t being created and init isn’t called, because when trying to access http://mysite.com/en/index/index it goes to “Page Not Found” page. Is there something I’m missing?

6

Did you override init() in IndexController? If you override it, you need to call the parent implementation.

7

Nope:



<?php





class IndexController extends BaseController


{


	public function actionIndex()


  {


    var_dump('index');


  }


}

I think it just never gets to that controller, since it tries to find controller uk, so the init() is never run.

8

What is your URL rules?

9

I don't have any.

10

Then you need some apache rewrite rules so that the language segment can be recognized. Otherwise, the 'en' segment will be treated as the controller ID.