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*SOLVED* Multilingual codeigniter site - El Forum - 09-20-2010

[eluser]Mr. Pickle[/eluser]
Hi there, I want to set-up a multilingual Codeigniter project.
I've tried to look up on this but could not find a satisfying solution.

I simply want my first uri segment to be the language code, e.g.
/en/
/de/
/fr/
etc....

Therefore I basically want the second segment to be the controller and the third segment to be the action. With the flexibility to put one or more segments behind.

I now have set up something in the routes file, but I need to tell CI every possible route to every possible controller and action, while I'd like to keep this flexible.

I'd unfortunately didn't work to just say:

Code:
$route[':any/:any/:any']    = "$2/$3";

For 1 because this doesn't give me the flexbility to add a number of uri segments and 2 because this doesn't work at all Smile

So, how I'd like it is to have for example:
http://siteurl/en/topic/show/1

To laoad the topic controller and the show action. There I catch the fourth parameter, and use it as the topic ID to show. But I need to have it work also if I have for example:
http://siteurl/en/topic/show/1/print

because I check in the code if a fifth parameter is present (and possibly a sixth, seventh... as well)

Thanks in advance for any ideas/solutions!

*SOLVED* Multilingual codeigniter site - El Forum - 09-20-2010

[eluser]Ki[/eluser]
Hi,
I had to deal with exactly same problem before. I have put my modifications and detailed instructions here: http://www.key2market.com/2010/09/internationalization-with-codeigniter-2-0/

Note that this isfor CI 2.0

*SOLVED* Multilingual codeigniter site - El Forum - 09-20-2010

[eluser]Mr. Pickle[/eluser]
What I can't figure out is how to fool the routes so that the first param is ignored when determining the controller action and other params.

I tried to use @Ki's code in CI 1.7.2. but CI still tries to look for the controller en if I load mysite.com/en/ or mysite.com/en/controller/acties/param3/

*SOLVED* Multilingual codeigniter site - El Forum - 09-20-2010

[eluser]Ki[/eluser]
Did you edit your routes as per instructions?

Code:
// We load routes for all languages in the $config['langages'] array

$langs = $this->config->item('langs');

// using foreach loop we map language route

foreach($langs as $key=>$value){

 $route[$key] = "default_controller";

 $route["^$key/(.+)"] = "$1";

}

*SOLVED* Multilingual codeigniter site - El Forum - 09-20-2010

[eluser]Mr. Pickle[/eluser]
Yes, I did.

*SOLVED* Multilingual codeigniter site - El Forum - 09-20-2010

[eluser]Ki[/eluser]
What about if you try to hard-code it:

Code:
$route['en'] = "default_controller";

 $route["^en/(.+)"] = "$1";

*SOLVED* Multilingual codeigniter site - El Forum - 09-20-2010

[eluser]Mr. Pickle[/eluser]
Hi, this works for now for url's containing only the controller (e.g. category) after the language code, for example:
http://myssite.com/en/category

But it won't work with for example:
http://mysite.com/en/category/php

I don't want to put literally every possible route (with every possible segment, e.g. with pagination as this asks flexibility of your uri's) in the routes.php config.

*SOLVED* Multilingual codeigniter site - El Forum - 09-20-2010

[eluser]Ki[/eluser]
Thats where you use

Code:
function _remap()

{

    // Some code here...

}

within each controller

More about this here http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/controllers.html

*SOLVED* Multilingual codeigniter site - El Forum - 09-20-2010

[eluser]Mr. Pickle[/eluser]
Hi Ki, but to get to a controller CI should not have the language misstaken with the controller, isn't it?

I mean, your _remap() solution is normally associated with the second parameter, while my language is the first parameter. Or do I just don't understand (yet)?

The current hard-coded routes.php addition only kicks in when their is only one lang code as the first parameter and one controller name as the second parameter.

*SOLVED* Multilingual codeigniter site - El Forum - 09-20-2010

[eluser]Ki[/eluser]
My first comment is for you to be more specific and descriptive of what is happening with your code. You stated earlier:
But it won’t work with for example:
http://mysite.com/en/category/php

What does " it won’t work" means? Are you getting an error? Are you getting a blank screen?