Language Switcher from URL

Sorry for late reply, just checked and it indeed sometimes causes this issue. Updating the article!

Hm, not sure I understand from where the issue comes. Could you add a bit more details? Would love to update the lesson if there's an issue!

From the language switcher, if you're on the route for example https://localhost:8000/en/blog/first-post and you click on the language switcher, it will break the app because the only param that is supplied is the $locale whereas we also need to pass the slug of the post to reload that current route.

Hmm, could you try to use this:

route(\Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route::currentRouteName(), array_merge(Route::current()->parameters(),['locale' => $locale]))

in your resources/views/layouts/navigation.blade.php language selection and let me know if the problem persists?

It works now like magic!!!

Awesome to hear! Updating the article, thank you!

Thank you too. Now I got to learn about the Route::current()->parameters() function. Pretty neat!

Hi, can you add what error you have? Or where does the 404 come from?

Or better yet, add the configuration changes you made for pt_BR and I'll try to reproduce it and help you out

It gives 404 because the system transforms the URL with /pt_BR since the correct configuration for Portuguese (Brazil) is this and not pt

I change locate to pt_BR in app.php in config folder

ops locale = 'pt_BR', sorry. Thanks

Okay, got it. Looked into the code and it is because of the Route::prefix() in your web.php file.

To fix your issue, you can use a different regex (by default we expect 2 characters only):

Route::prefix('{locale}')
    ->where(['locale' => '[a-zA-Z]{2}_[a-zA-Z]{2}'])

This should allow you to use pt_BR as a locale

Did you run php artisan breeze:install? Because that file that's located in the vendor is a stub (template) file and should not be used/modified.

ps. Never modify vendor files!

Thx for your reply.

Yes I did, seems to be a Livewire thing. Seems the authentication is implemented differently with the Breeze Livewire Stack. For now I was not able to make it completly multilingual.

I 've created two new projects for testing. During the process of php artisan breeze:install the installer asks Which Breeze stack would you like to install?

It works if you choose

• Blade with Alpine

Mutiple Controllers including RegisteredUserController.php are in the app/Http/Controllers/Auth/-Directory

If you choose

• Livewire (Volt Class API) with Alpine
• Livewire (Volt Functional API) with Alpine

There is only VerifyEmailController.php in the app/Http/Controllers/Auth/-Directory

Oh... Now that makes sense!

We have not looked into the Livewire stack yet, as that stack uses Volt API. These files are in different locations (can't tell where, except for functional API is in... views...).

Maybe this video would help you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzD0Uy7VMPE

With the livewire stack the auth stuff is implemented in resources/views/livewire/pages/auth/ instead.

In the file login.blade.php for example there is the redirect:

$this->redirect(
        session('url.intended', RouteServiceProvider::HOME),
        navigate: true
    );

So the locale needs to be prepended there.

$this->redirect(
        session('url.intended', app()->getLocale() . RouteServiceProvider::HOME),
        navigate: true
    );

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction!

Glad it helped! And thanks for the example.

Take a look at url example for create button - all routes have to have a parent parameter passed. otherwise this will be the issue

aha so I always need to add the locale something like this.

return redirect()->route('my-route', ['locale' => app()->getLocale()]);

yep! it does need parent always

hmm

this causes error

route('users.documents.tracking',['locale' => app()->getLocale(),'userDoc' => $userDoc->id])

App\Http\Controllers\UserDocController::tracking(): Argument #1 ($userDoc) must be of type App\Models\UserDoc, string given, called in /Users/rabol/code/web/sign/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php on line 54

the language is passed not the model

looks like all routes that have a parameter like this route_name/{varName} have a issue

Not sure what could be there. And it's not so easy to give a potential solution wihout diving deep in the code and debugging, sorry

if you have a controller method like this:

public fuction show(Post $post)

then you could have a route like this:

Route:get(/{post}/show, [PostController::class, 'show'])->name('show')

With the solution from this lesson you will have a problem as all routes is prefixed with 'locale' so you rcontroller method actually needs to look like this:

public fuction show(string $locale, Post $post)

Yes, you are correct about this. You do have to always include this:

public function show(string $locale, Post $post)
    {
        dd($post);
    }
		```
		
		Otherwise it will indeed throw the error you are mentioning. This is because the first parameter in our URL is the locale and not the model. That's how Laravel model binding works

To do this efficiently, I would recommend you to use database/cookie based token for it.

The problem is - our language key is the FIRST parameter on the URL and removing it, can cause the page to think that /page/post needs to load page as our language.

Of course, you can play around and cover the URL defaults/parameter checks, but that's a bigger topic than I can fit in a comment, sorry

Thank you