Internationalisation, Clean URLs and Google page ranking.

[eluser]benjamincurrie[/eluser]
The above library looks great and while not trying to devalue the author's work, I'll post another solution I came up with for anyone else interested.
I had a project that required multi-lingual support with translated URL's, eg:
mysite.com/home (home page in English)
mysite.com/accueil (home page in French)

For those who take SEO seriously, having a URL that uses your keywords is a big deal and my employer at the time wanted the keywords in the URL for every language.

This does require a config file to keep track of controller and function translations, for those who don’t wish to maintain translations it reverts to URL’s like this:
mysite.com/fr/home

There is also an option to use a query string:
mysite.com/home?lang=fr

I’ve put the project up on Github and would love some feedback as I have only tested in my own environments so far. Feel free to fork the project and implement your own methods, hopefully we can get a fairly expansive library happenning together.

https://github.com/benjamincurrie/CodeIg...age-Switch

A lot of people seem to want to use cookies for storing user language preference, however I don’t believe this is the best practice for search engine crawlers. Will eventually get to supporting this method too (as well as subdomain).

Ben