Symfony2 default locale in routing

If someone is interested in, I succeeded to put a prefix on my routing.yml without using other bundles.

So now, thoses URLs work :

www.example.com/www.example.com//home/www.example.com/fr/home/www.example.com/en/home/

Edit your app/config/routing.yml:

ex_example:    resource: "@ExExampleBundle/Resources/config/routing.yml"    prefix:   /{_locale}    requirements:        _locale: |fr|en # put a pipe "|" first

Then, in you app/config/parameters.yml, you have to set up a locale

parameters:    locale: en

With this, people can access to your website without enter a specific locale.

You can define multiple patterns like this:

example_default:  pattern:   /example  defaults:  { _controller: ExampleBundle:Example:index, _locale: fr }example:  pattern:   /{_locale}/example  defaults:  { _controller: ExampleBundle:Example:index}  requirements:      _locale:  fr|en

You should be able to achieve the same sort of thing with annotations:

/** * @Route("/example", defaults={"_locale"="fr"}) * @Route("/{_locale}/example", requirements={"_locale" = "fr|en"}) */

Hope that helps!

This is what I use for automatic locale detection and redirection, it works well and doesn't require lengthy routing annotations:

routing.yml

The locale route handles the website's root and then every other controller action is prepended with the locale.

locale:  path: /  defaults:  { _controller: AppCoreBundle:Core:locale }main:  resource: "@AppCoreBundle/Controller"  prefix: /{_locale}  type: annotation  requirements:    _locale: en|fr

CoreController.php

This detects the user's language and redirects to the route of your choice. I use home as a default as that it the most common case.

public function localeAction($route = 'home', $parameters = array()){    $this->getRequest()->setLocale($this->getRequest()->getPreferredLanguage(array('en', 'fr')));    return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl($route, $parameters));}

Then, the route annotations can simply be:

/** * @Route("/", name="home") */public function indexAction(Request $request){    // Do stuff}

Twig

The localeAction can be used to allow the user to change the locale without navigating away from the current page:

<a href="{{ path(app.request.get('_route'), app.request.get('_route_params')|merge({'_locale': targetLocale })) }}">{{ targetLanguage }}</a>

Clean & simple!