{"id":240,"date":"2015-10-26T21:52:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T20:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christiaannieuwlaat.nl\/?p=240"},"modified":"2015-10-26T21:52:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T20:52:59","slug":"translation-goodness-with-symfony2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christiaannieuwlaat.nl\/index.php\/2015\/10\/26\/translation-goodness-with-symfony2\/","title":{"rendered":"Translation goodness with symfony2"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the title would suggest this entry could be about the really nice translation mechanism provided by the symfony2 PHP framework (See http:\/\/www.symfony.com\/<\/a> ), but….. it isn’t….<\/p>\n

Well, technically it’s not quite about the translation mechanism itself, it’s about the ease you can use a cookie to switch locales ( and languages as far as translation goes ).<\/p>\n

In Symfony there is a translator component, which you can use to create translated pages on-the-fly, the only thing you need to do is to create language yaml files in the Bundle\/Resources\/translation folder which go by the following pattern <-domain->.<language>.yml.<\/p>\n

Say we want to create texts for the ‘messages’ domain, and we would like to support both english and dutch. We therefore need to create 2 files, called messages.en.yml and messages.nl.yml. In both files we create exactly the same keys, with the values being the text in the target language.<\/p>\n

The nice thing about symfony 2 is that the translator component automatically chooses the appropriate resource file to use for the translation. This is done according to the active locale ( or the default & fallback settings in the symfony config file ). What I discovered today is that it’s possible to dynamically override the locale using a cookie and an Event listener..<\/p>\n

If you create an event-listener for the KernelRequest event ( using an onKernelRequest handler function ) if which you extract the targetlocale from a cookie, and insert it into the request object (using setLocale(…) ) you can change the locale on the fly. \u00a0You still need to add the custom eventlistener to the processing chain, which you can do in the services.yml file.<\/p>\n

At this moment I’m unable to post an example, but I will post an example soon, so please come back later… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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