Multilingual urls

[arisk]

Port of Laravel 3 multilingual URLs

[snarexx]

Someone has developed a bundle for multilangual urls. http://forums.laravel.io/viewtopic.php?id=2200&p=2
I remember that this bundle took attention of Laravel creators. This can be improved and merged into L4. It would have been great.

[raftalks]

this is great 👍

[prawee]

+1

[jaumesala]

+1

[raftalks]

+1 thanks

[yuters]

+1

[taylorotwell]

Not exactly how I want to implement, but I do plan to revisit this and integrate it into L4.

[Anahkiasen]

Eager to see this feature back in Laravel 4, it was really useful and nice to work with.

[jaumesala]

Totally agree, 80% of our clients require multilingual sites and from those, all of them want a good SEO. This feature was really nice, it was one of the reasons that made me decide to move from Codeigniter to Laravel.
Let's pray to our god @taylorotwell ;-)

[rubenlopezgea]

+1

[dbpolito]

👍

[asifrust]

(y)

[snarexx]

+1 again

[taylorotwell]

Integrated this in a more cohesive way. Done. Works basically the same... see locales config in app.

[tlgreg]

See that it has been removed later. What's the current state on this?

[jasonlewis]

@tlgreg It caused more problems then it solved in the long run. Maybe Taylor can provide you with more details. But I don't think it'll be coming back in the near future.

[urbankid]

I'm keeping my fingers crossed on this. All my clients require multilingual projects with good SEO as well. Right now it's a nightmare in L4 to achieve this, at least for me.

[barryvdh]

I also liked this feature. Made multi-language site much easier. Perhaps it is possible to recreate this functionality as a seperate bundle?

[arisk]

You can modify the code from this pull request and include it in your App::before() filter. It should work in the same way.

[barryvdh]

I think it can currently also be handled like this:

$languages = array('nl','fr');
$locale = Request::segment(1);
if(in_array($locale, $languages)){
    App::setLocale($locale);
}else{
    $locale = null;
}
Route::group(array('prefix' => $locale), function()
{
    Route::get('/', array('as' => 'home', function(){ //Do something  }));
    Route::get(Lang::get('routes.news'), array('as' => 'news', 'uses' => 'NewsController@showIndex'));
    Route::get('{slug}', 'PageController@showPage');
});

Then you can just use the URL::route() and URL::action() functions, and the locale will be included. The default locale can be left out, but if you want to include it, you can just add it to the language array.
And you can just create a lang/nl/routes.php file to add the translation of the url.

[raftalks]

@barryvdh thanks, thats exactly what I had in mind too. :)

[frankmichel]

@barryvdh this is a great solution. would be great if this could be added to the docs somewhere...