Two problems with rules in pretty urls

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

I used rules from UrlManager like this:




      'home'         =>   'site/index',

      '<alias:\w+'   =>   'site<alias>',

And it works I can access my_domain.com/home my_domain.com/contact etc.

Without the first rule I cannot access my_domain.com/home, I would like to have one generic rule not two…so I can resolve the next problem.

After I set up those 2 rules…I installed and configured this language picker http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/yii2-language-picker/

Now I have two flag-links with

my_domain.com/home?language-picker-language=ro-RO

my_domain.com/contact?language-picker-language=en-GB

…

Well I’m a beginner and I don’t know how to create these rules so I can have

my_domain.com/ro/home

my_domain.com/en/home

…

2

You will most likely have to extend url manager to be able to use the urls like you are wanting. You will end up having to make a bunch of rules which will slow your site down if you don’t do something globally like extending url manager. There are a few extensions that you can use here is one but there are more if you search github

https://github.com/c...yii2-localeurls

here is an old forum post too

http://www.yiiframew…site-url-rules/

yii2 url routing guide

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-runtime-routing.html

3

Ok, I’m thinking to use this extension, but I don’t understand a thing… it creates urls(the same way like in the routing guide) like this




     $url = Url::to(['demo/action']);

And I do not know WHERE to create this rules. Would the creation is made in the controller?

4

You would set the rules in your main config file under components. You would also set the rules like you normally would.

5

perhaps the guides are not very clear, but you confusing it with something which is related to routing but has different purpose




// imagine you have defined a set of routes

'home'         =>   'site/index',

'<alias:\w+'   =>   'site<alias>',

you might wanna generate links to these routes to go from one page to another page

in your case lets say you wanna put a link on a page which takes you to site/index action or home route you can use Url::to


// this will generate a link to your homepage

<a href="<?= Url::to(['site/index']) ?>Go to homepage</a>
6

Ok I suspend the problem for a few months. But now I’ll try to fix it.

Some corrections to my first post




 'home'   =>   'site/index',

 '<alias:\w+>'   =>   'site/<alias>',

I used https://github.com/codemix/yii2-localeurls

Now I have




     '<alias:\w+(-\w+)*>'   =>   'site/<alias>',

And it works, my default language in my config is ro…and I want that my app to ignore THE DEFAULT LANGUAGE OF THE BROWSER… or any cookies/sessions related to language…so that de default language will be always ro.

LE:

For sessions/cookies I found this solutions




    'enableLanguagePersistence' => false,

    'languageSessionKey'        => false,

    'languageCookieDuration'    => false,