Symfony2 default locale in routing

Question

I have a problem with routing and the internationalization of my site built with Symfony2.
If I define routes in the routing.yml file, like this:

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Answer 1

If someone is interested in, I succeeded to put a prefix on my routing.yml without using other bundles.

So now, thoses URLs work :

www.example.com/
www.example.com//home/
www.example.com/fr/home/
www.example.com/en/home/

Edit your app/config/routing.yml:

ex_example:
    resource: "@ExExampleBundle/Resources/config/routing.yml"
    prefix:   /{_locale}
    requirements:
        _locale: |fr|en # put a pipe "|" first

Then, in you app/config/parameters.yml, you have to set up a locale

parameters:
    locale: en

With this, people can access to your website without enter a specific locale.

Answer 2

There is my Solution, it makes this process faster!

Controller:

/**
 * @Route("/change/locale/{current}/{locale}/", name="locale_change")
 */
public function setLocaleAction($current, $locale)
{
    $this->get('request')->setLocale($locale);
    $referer = str_replace($current,$locale,$this->getRequest()->headers->get('referer'));

    return $this->redirect($referer);
}

Twig:

<li {% if app.request.locale == language.locale %} class="selected" {% endif %}>
    <a href="{{ path('locale_change', { 'current' : app.request.locale,  'locale' : language.locale } ) }}"> {{ language.locale }}</a>
</li>

Answer 3

You can define multiple patterns like this:

example_default:
  pattern:   /example
  defaults:  { _controller: ExampleBundle:Example:index, _locale: fr }

example:
  pattern:   /{_locale}/example
  defaults:  { _controller: ExampleBundle:Example:index}
  requirements:
      _locale:  fr|en

You should be able to achieve the same sort of thing with annotations:

/**
 * @Route("/example", defaults={"_locale"="fr"})
 * @Route("/{_locale}/example", requirements={"_locale" = "fr|en"})
 */

Hope that helps!

Answer 4

I use annotations, and i will do

/**
 * @Route("/{_locale}/example", defaults={"_locale"=""})
 * @Route("/example", defaults={"_locale"="en"}, , requirements = {"_locale" = "fr|en|uk"})
 */

But for yml way, try some equivalent...

Answer 5

Maybe I solved this in a reasonably simple way:

example:
    path:      '/{_locale}{_S}example'
    defaults:  { _controller: 'AppBundle:Example:index' , _locale="de" , _S: "/" }
    requirements:
        _S: "/?"
        _locale: '|de|en|fr'

Curious about the judgement of the critics ... Best wishes, Greg

Answer 6

I think you could simply add a route like this:

example: 
pattern:  /example 
defaults: { _controller: ExampleBundle:Example:index } 

This way, the locale would be the last locale selected by the user, or the default locale if user locale has not been set. You might also add the "_locale" parameter to the "defaults" in your routing config if you want to set a specific locale for /example:

example: 
pattern:  /example 
defaults: { _controller: ExampleBundle:Example:index, _locale: fr }

I don't know if there's a better way to do this.