URI Language Identifier

Category:Core | Category:Core::Community | Category:Core::Language | Category:Core::URL

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. http://domain.tld/[color=red][b]en[/b][/color]/controller/method, http://domain.tld/[color=red][b]es[/b][/color]/controller/method, http://domain.tld/[color=red][b]de[/b][/color]/controller/method

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

[b]application/config/config.php[/b] [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'] = "xx";[/code]

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

• URI Language Identifier

• Adds a language identifier prefix to all site_url links

• @copyright Copyright (c) 2011, Wiredesignz

• @version 0.24

• Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy

• of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal

• in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights

• to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell

• copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is

• furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

• The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in

• all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

• THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR

• IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,

• FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE

• AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER

• LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,

• OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN

• THE SOFTWARE. */ class MY_Lang extends CI_Lang { function __construct() {

    global $RTR;
    
    $index_page    = $RTR->config->item('index_page');
    $lang_uri_abbr = $RTR->config->item('lang_uri_abbr');
    
    /* get the lang_abbr from uri segments */
    $lang_abbr = current($RTR->uri->segments);
        
    /* check for invalid abbreviation */
    if( ! isset($lang_uri_abbr[$lang_abbr])) {            
        
        $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 */
            $index_page .= empty($index_page) ? $deft_abbr : "/$deft_abbr";
        
            /* redirect after inserting language id */
            header('Location: '.$RTR->config->item('base_url').$index_page.$RTR->uri->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 */
               $index_page .= empty($index_page) ? $lang_abbr : "/$lang_abbr";
            
            /* reset uri segments and uri string */
            $RTR->uri->_reindex_segments(array_shift($RTR->uri->segments));
            $RTR->uri->uri_string = str_replace("/$lang_abbr/", '/', $RTR->uri->uri_string);
        }
    }
    
    /* reset the index_page value */
    $RTR->config->set_item('index_page', $index_page);        
    log_message('debug', "MY_Language Class Initialized");
  

  } }

/* translate helper */ function t($line) { global $CI; return ($t = $CI->lang->line($line)) ? $t : $line; } [/code] [h3]Notes[/h3] [b]Updated URI Language Identifier will not load a default language file for the selected language.[/b]

Added translation helper t() to the library.

Use the $config['language'] value or $config['lang_abbr'] to determine the active language when loading your application or module.

[h3]Extending url helper to display links to content in another language[/h3] 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

[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

[/code]

if you want to display images or text you can add to the config file [code]//language use images $config['lang_useimg'] = true; //or false to use only text [/code]

[b]MY_url_helper.php[/b] [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 [email protected]
• @modified by Ionut [email protected] */

function alt_site_url($uri = '') { $CI =& get_instance(); $actual_lang=$CI->uri->segment(1); $languages=$CI->config->item('lang_desc'); $languages_useimg=$CI->config->item('lang_useimg'); $ignore_lang=$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='

'; //i use ul because for me formating a list from css is easy foreach ($languages as $lang=>$lang_desc) { if ($actual_lang!=$lang) { $alt_url.='
• '; if ($languages_useimg){ //change the path on u'r needs //in images u need to have for example en.gif and so on for every
  //language u use //the language description will be used as alternative $alt_url.= '
'; } else { $alt_url.= $lang_desc.''; } } } $alt_url.='

'; return $alt_url; } ?>[/code]