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Adding multi-language functionality in a website developed in laravel.

fadilxcoder on January 05, 2019

Hello Everyone, Today I will share with you how do add multi language to a website that was developed in laravel, my version is 5.6 but it will wor...

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chonz0 • May 20 '20

TL;DR: how to fix a potential "too many redirects" error calling redirect()->back()

Nice article, thanks! Although, if you enter the locale URL directly on the browser URL bar, you could get a "too many redirects" error.
The underlaying problem is, in that particular case, you don't have a "back" URL (as the current URL is the first in the history stack, so Laravel returns the current URL when you call redirect()->back())
You can see it yourself by adding the following:

Route::get('locale/{locale}', function ($locale){
    dump(request()->fullUrl());
    dd(redirect()->back()->getTargetUrl());
});

A quick fix would be to only call the back() method, if the target URL is different than the current one. You could achieve this by using the following snippet:

Route::get('locale/{locale}', function ($locale){
    Session::put('locale', $locale);

    if (request()->fullUrl() === redirect()->back()->getTargetUrl()) {
        return redirect('/');
    }

    return redirect()->back();
});

Cheers!

inshasamad18 • Nov 19 '20

when i run this code i got an error page not found. the url should be like this 127.0.0.1:8000/localisation/create but when i change the language the url become 127.0.0.1:8000/localisation/lang/en.

Mina Farag • Apr 15 '19

thanks so much for this great description. i really appreciated it works for me just super fine.

fadilxcoder • Apr 15 '19

Thank you for your support :)

fillipe-felix • Dec 5 '19 • Edited

how can i add language to url
example example.com/pt-BR/content or example.com/en/content

musthafa-advance • Jul 11 '20

hey @filippe-felix did you solved this ?

fillipe-felix • Jul 11 '20

Hi, no =(

musthafa-advance • Jul 11 '20

laraveldaily.com/multi-language-ro...

musthafa-advance • Jul 11 '20 • Edited

youtube.com/watch?v=KqzGKg8IxE4

this will do it :)
Finally its fixed

fadilxcoder • May 3 '19

Yes , I agree with you, if possible try to explain how to proceed so we all can know. Thank you.

Beranger nelson • Jan 13 '19

Comment faire pour les articles qui viennent de la base de donnée, pour qu'ils soient rendu en français et anglais svp ?.

fadilxcoder • Jan 17 '19

One way to do so is for example if you have a "posts" table with column : "id, title_en, title_fr, content_en, content_fr *" you can use if/else statement together with "app()->getLocale()*".

if(app()->getLocale() == 'en'):
    echo $var->title_en
else:
    echo $var->title_fr
endif;

Reza • May 27 '19 • Edited

Or:

@if (app()->isLocale('en'))
  //
@endif

But best method is to set a custom If Statement!

1: Add in your AppServiceProvider:

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

public function boot()
{   
    Blade::if('lang', function ($language) {
        return app()->isLocale($language);
    });
}

2: In your views:

@lang('en')
//

@elselang('fr')
//

@else
//

@endlang

Yaraa • Apr 5 '19

thank u so much

Emir Buğra KÖKSALAN • Oct 15 '19

This is exaclty what I want. Other sites aren't making good explanation about this. Thanks.

XuDuSh • May 16 '19

thank you very much

Porngpisey Choem • Jul 23 '19

If you could share about dynamic multi-language from MySQL, it really appriciate.

Thanks!

Syntafin • Nov 15 '19

I tried this and now I got the error as seen in the added screenshot

Mehdi Yaghoubi • Dec 12 '19

thank you.

does a with href attr work? as :

Reza • May 5 '19

Hey, could somebody explain how to fix that? Thanks!!!

Bilell Ghersa • Jan 8 '20

Hello, this is good for SEO ??

july-krchnk • Feb 21 '20

Does it also suitable for Laravel 6? Did someone try to do it?

Mahbod Ahmadi • Apr 28 '20

yeah i tried with laravel 7 :P