Wiki articles in category Tutorials tagged with "i18n"

A simple trick to get the localized version of a model field is to add this little method to your models.

This guide is for more or less advanced users. If you just started with Yii or didn't worked with any web-framework before, you may should come back later :-)

In case of a multilingual application, one might consider it a reasonable approach to store the preferred language of the user in a session variable, and after that, every time a page is requested, to check this session variable and render the page in the indicated language. This tutorial shows a Yii-way of doing this.
We implement an event handler for the onBeginRequest event; as the nam...

You have a multilingual application, and you want the URL of a page to be different for different languages, to account for SEO. The URL for the contact page for example should look like http://something.com/en/contact in english, and http://something.com/de/contact in german. This tutorial describes how to make it happen.
Note that currently selected language is always a part...

Yii core messages refer to static text strings in the core Yii framework code which are meant to be displayed to end-users (e.g. core exception messages, default validation error messages). Customization of these core messages is needed in two circumstances:

As seen in this post, Yii doesn't enforce how language is set and maintained within the session.

By default, the decimal separator in php (also in mysql) is a dot (.). So when we work with floats in Yii (in calculations, validation, sql statements etc.), the decimal separator has to be a dot. If we want to use for example a comma (,) as the decimal separator, that is if we want to display numbers and enable users to enter numbers with a comma before the decimals, we have to...

Example settings when using Gettext for i18n.

1. create file common\components\languageSwitcher.php

common\components\LanguageSelector.php

<?php
namespace common\components;