URI Language Identifier

Category:Core Extensions::Language Category:Libraries::Language

This language class extension allows you to automatically prefix all site urls with a language abbreviation that is pre-defined in your config file or from a link and automatically load the corresponding language translation file, the route will then be corrected by the route regex for everything to work as normal.

Somewhere in the site you can provide the user with links allowing them to change their desired language name. [color=red]http://[/color][color=red]domain.tld/en/controller/method[/color] [color=red]http://[/color][color=red]domain.tld/es/controller/method[/color] [color=red]http://[/color][color=red]domain.tld/de/controller/method[/color]

application/config/routes.php [code]

//route example: http://domain.tld/en/controller => http://domain.tld/controller $route['(\w{2})/(.*)'] = '$2'; $route['(\w{2})'] = $route['default_controller'];

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application/config/config.php [code]

$config['language'] = "english";

//default language abbreviation $config['language_abbr'] = "en";

//set available language abbreviations $config['lang_uri_abbr'] = array("es" => "spanish", "en" => "english");

//ignore this language abbreviation $config['lang_ignore'] = "en";

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application/libraries/MY_Language.php [code] <?php if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed'); /**

• URI Language Identifier

• Adds a language identifier prefix to all site_url links

• Loads the users language file

• version 0.9 (c) Wiredesignz 2008-04-13 */ class MY_Language extends CI_Language { function MY_Language() { parent::CI_Language();

   global $RTR;
  
   //get the language array
   $lang_uri_abbr = $RTR->config->item('lang_uri_abbr');
  
   //get the abbreviation from uri segment
   $lang_abbr = $RTR->uri->segment(1);
  
   //if abbreviation is invalid reload the page using the default language
   if(!isset($lang_uri_abbr[$lang_abbr]))
   {            
       $base_url   = $RTR->config->item('base_url');
       $index_page = $RTR->config->item('index_page');
       $deft_abbr  = $RTR->config->item('language_abbr');
       
       //replace an invalid abbreviation with default language abbreviation
       if (strlen($lang_abbr) == 2)
       {
           $uri_string = str_replace("/{$lang_abbr}/", '/', $RTR->uri->uri_string);
       }
       else 
           //or just get the URI if no abbreviation is found
           $uri_string = $RTR->uri->uri_string;
       
       header("Location:".$base_url.$index_page.$deft_abbr.$uri_string);
       exit();
   }
   else
   {
       //get the user language name
       $user_lang = $lang_uri_abbr[$lang_abbr];
  
       //reset config language to match the user language
       $RTR->config->set_item('language', $user_lang);
       $RTR->config->set_item('language_abbr', $lang_abbr); 
   
       //check if this language abbreviation is to be ignored
       if ($lang_abbr != $RTR->config->item('lang_ignore'))
       {
           //append the language abbreviation to the index_page config url
           $RTR->config->set_item('index_page', $RTR->config->item('index_page').$lang_abbr.'/');
       }
   
       //load the user language file
       parent::load($user_lang, $user_lang);
   }
  

  } } [/code]