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 default language file

• version 0.12 (c) Wiredesignz 2008-04-21 */ class MY_Language extends CI_Language { function MY_Language() { parent::CI_Language();

    global $RTR;
    
    $index_page    = $RTR->config->item('index_page');
    $lang_uri_abbr = $RTR->config->item('lang_uri_abbr');
    
    //get the language from uri segment
    $lang_abbr = $RTR->uri->segment(1);
  
    //check for invalid abbreviation
    if(!isset($lang_uri_abbr[$lang_abbr]))
    {            
        $base_url  = $RTR->config->item('base_url');
        $deft_abbr = $RTR->config->item('language_abbr');
        
        //check for abbreviation to be ignored
        if ($deft_abbr != $RTR->config->item('lang_ignore'))
        {
            //check and set the default uri identifier
            $index_page .= ($index_page) ? "/{$deft_abbr}" : "{$deft_abbr}";
        
            $uri_string = $RTR->uri->uri_string;
        
            //remove an invalid abbreviation from uri
            if (strlen($lang_abbr) == 2)
            {
                $uri_string = str_replace("/{$lang_abbr}", '', $uri_string);
            }
    
            //redirect
            header("Location:".$base_url.$index_page.$uri_string);
        }
        
        //get the language name
        $user_lang = $lang_uri_abbr[$deft_abbr];
    }
    else
    {
           //get the 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 for abbreviation to be ignored
        if ($lang_abbr != $RTR->config->item('lang_ignore'))
        {
            //check and set the user uri identifier
            $index_page .= ($index_page) ? "/{$lang_abbr}" : "{$lang_abbr}";
        }
    }
    
    //reset the the config index_page value
    $index_page .= ($index_page) ? '/' : '';
    
    $RTR->config->set_item('index_page', $index_page);
    
    //load the user language file
    parent::load($user_lang, $user_lang);
  

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[h3]Extending url helper to display links to content in another language[/h3] Category:Helpers Category:Language If you want to display links to another languages for your content, you can extend url helper. Add to the config file a few lines like this: [code] //language descriptions $config['lang_desc']=array("es"=>"Versión en español", "en" => "English version", "gl" => "Versión en galego"); [/code] Place this file in your application MY_url_helper.php [code] <?php if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed'); /**

• Alternative languages helper
• Returns a string with links to the content in alternative languages
• version 0.2
• @author Luis luis@piezas.org.es */

function alt_site_url($uri = '') { $CI =& get_instance(); $actual_lang=$CI->uri->segment(1); $languages=$CI->config->item('lang_desc'); $ignore_lang=$CI->config->item('lang_ignore'); if (empty($actual_lang)) { $uri=$ignore_lang.$CI->uri->uri_string(); $actual_lang=$ignore_lang; } else { if (!array_key_exists($actual_lang,$languages)) { $uri=$ignore_lang.$CI->uri->uri_string(); $actual_lang=$ignore_lang; } else { $uri=$CI->uri->uri_string(); $uri=substr_replace($uri,'',0,1); } } $alt_url=''; foreach ($languages as $lang=>$lang_desc) {

     if ($actual_lang!=$lang)
     {
        $alt_url.='<a href="'.$CI->config->slash_item('base_url');
        if ($lang==$ignore_lang)
        {
            $new_uri=ereg_replace('^'.$actual_lang,'',$uri);
            $new_uri=substr_replace($new_uri,'',0,1);
        }
        else
        {
            $new_uri=ereg_replace('^'.$actual_lang,$lang,$uri);
        }
        $alt_url.=$new_uri;
        $alt_url.='">'.$lang_desc.'</a><br />';
     }
}
return $alt_url;

}

?> [/code] and you are ready to use it in your view files: [code]

<?php echo alt_site_url();?>

[/code] Now suppose that your default language is english and you are visiting, by example, the spanish version of your web http://example.com/es/mycontroller/myfunction/. This is what you will obtain: [code]

English version
Versión en galego

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