ZF2 - Language Routes - php

Question

I need to create a router configuration in Zend Framework 2 like:
http://www.example.com/en
http://www.example.com/fr
http://www.example.com/es
Then the route of the modules like my "cms" module must match:
http://www.example.com/en/cms/test.html (english version)
http://www.example.com/fr/cms/test.html (french version)
http://www.example.com/es/cms/test.html (spanish version)
of course this link must match the english default language:
http://www.example.com/cms/test.html (english version)
I have already used the SimLocale without success because it doesn't handle the asset links as well. So I prefer to handle the language selection manually by a simple parameter for all my custom modules.

Answer 1

The question has been solved on #zftalk IRC today (thanks Michelangelo to contribute back based one what we explained to you...).
To solve the problem, we had to have a look at the defined routes:
'router' => array(
'routes' => array(
'language' => array(
'type' => 'Segment',
'options' => array(
'route' => '[/:lang]',
'defaults' => array(
'__NAMESPACE__' => 'Cms\Controller',
'controller' => 'Index',
'action' => 'page',
'lang' => 'en',
'slug' => 'homepage'
),
'constraints' => array(
'lang' => '[a-z]{2}'
)
),
'may_terminate' => true,
'child_routes' => array(
'list' => array(
'type' => 'Segment',
'options' => array(
'route' => '/cms',
'defaults' => array(
'__NAMESPACE__' => 'Cms\Controller',
'controller' => 'Index',
'action' => 'index',
'page' => 1
),
),
),
'page' => array(
'type' => 'Segment',
'options' => array(
'route' => '[/:slug].html',
'constraints' => array(
'slug' => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*',
),
'defaults' => array(
'action' => 'page',
),
),
),
'search' => array(
'type' => 'Segment',
'options' => array(
'route' => '/search/[query/:query]',
'constraints' => array(
'query' => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*',
),
'defaults' => array(
'action' => 'search',
'query' => null,
),
),
),
'paginator' => array(
'type' => 'Segment',
'options' => array(
'route' => '/list/[page/:page]',
'constraints' => array(
'page' => '[0-9]*',
),
'defaults' => array(
'page' => 1,
),
),
),
),
),
Then, the updated description of the problem was the following:
mikunos: http://www.example.com/en (homepage) this is ok
mikunos: http://www.example.com/en/cms (cms list) this is ok
mikunos: http://www.example.com/en/cms/about.html (page) this not
Which have led us on changing the 'page' route as a child route of 'list' (/cms).
Then the discussion finished with indications on what to do to setup the default language if none have been selected:
mikunos: as you have seen I need two main routes
mikunos: the first one is /lang/module and the second one is /module
mikunos: so I have to create two branches
mikunos: right?
tdutrion: you may want to use an url rewriting or something here
tdutrion: I would go for a redirect 301 from /module to /en/module so you have no duplicate content
tdutrion: and then no route can be accessed without a language
mikunos: ok
tdutrion: you can do it different ways, but I think the best one would be creating a event listener and do that before routing
tdutrion: you can also do it in your .htaccess of you are using apache, but then what if you migrate to IIS or Ngnix or else...
mikunos: interesting
tdutrion: again I believe Jurian Sluiman’s code does that

Answer 2

You can use subdomains for each language you need witch I suppose you don't want or you really don't need (eg. /en) to change the language of your application and/or web site. Is mandatory to use /en, /fr, etc.?