Best way for use multilanguage route and urlFor function

1

Hi,

I have try many ways to create my urls for multilanguage support, my urls looks like this:

https://mywebsite.com/fr/connexion
https://mywebsite.com/en/login

https://mywebsite.com/fr/inscription
https://mywebsite.com/en/register

I want to generate this kind of urls in my router, and also can call the url from urlFor function.

So I have try 3 ways:

Way 1 Router :

$app->group('/{lang}', function (RouteCollectorProxy $group)
{
    $group->get('/connexion', App\Controllers\PagesController::class.':login')->setName('login_fr');
    $group->get('/login', App\Controllers\PagesController::class.':login')->setName('login_en');
});

Way 1 urlFor:

$routeParser = RouteContext::fromRequest($request)->getRouteParser();
$url = $routeParser->urlFor('login_fr', ['lang'=>'fr']);

Way 2 Router :

$app->get('/fr/connexion', App\Controllers\PagesController::class.':login')->setName('login_fr');
$app->get('/en/login', App\Controllers\PagesController::class.':login')->setName('login_en');
});

Way 2 urlFor:

$routeParser = RouteContext::fromRequest($request)->getRouteParser();
$url = $routeParser->urlFor('login_fr');

Way 3 Router :

$app->get('/{router:fr/connexion|en/login}', App\Controllers\PagesController::class.':login')->setName('login');

Way 3 urlFor (doesn’t work):

$routeParser = RouteContext::fromRequest($request)->getRouteParser();
$url = $routeParser->urlFor('login'); // doesn't work

For now I think the best is “way 2” but I like the “way 3 router” because no repeat “$app->get”, but in the “way3 urlFor” I can’t pass the lang for get the url, this only work if I do this:

$url = $routeParser->urlFor('login', ['router'=>'/fr/connexion']

But it’s stupid because I pass the url for obtain the same url.

So I don’t know if you have a better solution / way / idea, for did what I want (multilangue url router & urlFor call with specific language) ?

Thanks :slight_smile:

2

Are you planning to use different routes per language? For example:

  • fr/connexion
  • fr/login
  • en/connection
  • en/login

… or are you planning to use the same route, but a different language parameter?

  • fr/connexion
  • fr/login
  • en/connexion
  • en/login
3

I would use different routes per language, for example:

  • fr/connexion
  • fr/a-propos
  • en/connection
  • en/about
4

I guess is this case, you have different routes anyway. So you could define each route / group individually and give each route / group a unique name.

5

Ok thanks I will do like that