Route groups for localization in Laravel 5.1

Question

I have three languages on my site:

en, fr, de

I want all of the pages on the site to have the language in the url in the first segment, ie.

/page     ->set Locale as English
/de/page  ->set Locale as German
/fr/page  ->set Locale as French

Any idea how I can apply this to all routes? The language must be set based on the first URL segment, if its not 'de' or 'fr' then set the language as English. Thanks!

Answer 1

I've got it working now with a foreach loop.

<?php

// routes.php

Route::group(['middleware' => 'lang'], function () {

    $langPrefixes = array_merge(config('app.langs'), ['']);

    foreach ($langPrefixes as $lang)
    {
        Route::get($lang . '/', [
            'uses' => 'PropertyController@index'
        ]);

        Route::get($lang . '/stuff', [
            'uses' => 'PropertyController@stuff'
        ]);
    }

});

In config/app.php:

<?php

// config/app.php

'langs' => ['fr', 'de'], // new addition

And middleware:

<?php

// Middleware/SetLanguage.php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Closure;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Application;

class SetLanguage
{
    protected $app;

    /**
     * Get access to the IoC container
     *
     * @param  Illuminate\Foundation\Application  $auth
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct(Application $app)
    {
        $this->app = $app;
    }

    /**
     * Handle an incoming request.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @param  \Closure  $next
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        if (in_array($request->segment(1), $this->app['config']['app.langs']) )
        {
            // override 'en' as the app locale
            $this->app['config']['app.locale'] = $request->segment(1);
        }

        return $next($request);
    }
}