Choosing routing.yml based on user culture?

Question

In my Symfony application I would like to choose the routing.yml based on the current user's culture;

'en' => routing.en.yml
'no' => routing.no.yml

and so forth.

Any suggestion to how this can be done?

Edit: I am not trying to do i18n this way - I use Symfony's built-in methods for that. I simply want "static" urls to reflect the user's language:

/en/projects/internal/project-name
/no/prosjekter/interne/prosjektnavn
/fr/baguette/champs-elysee/foux-de-fafa

Where "projects" is a module, the category "internal" and "project-name" are stored in the database.

Answer 1

There may not be a way to do this without dynamically loading the routing using a filter. You could override sfPatternRouting and write a custom loadConfiguration function, but you'd need to know the user's culture when the routing class gets instantiated*. If you go the filter route, simply load the proper routing file on the first half of the filter chain.

*If you go this route, make sure you change factories.yml as well.

Answer 2

I am not sure this is a correct way to implement i18n. What goal are you trying to achieve with this solution? Symfony has all i18n tools built-in and you should have no problems to use integrated ways.

Look here: http://www.symfony-project.org/book/1%5F2/13-I18n-and-L10n and scroll down to the "Culture in the URL" box. It should solve your problem.

Answer 3

I had the same problem with a recent website I did. I, however, did not find a proper solution and ended up making all URLs english.

I think you should have a look at the ysfDimensionsPlugin - I haven't checked it out but it might be of use to you.

Answer 4

i use this plugin. My routes look like this:

news_ro:
  url:   /ro/stiri/:slug
  requirements: { sf_culture: (?:ro),  page: \d+  }
  param: { module: news, action: index, page: 1, sf_culture: ro}


news_en:
  url:   /en/news/:slug
  requirements: { sf_culture: (?:en),  page: \d+  }
  param: { module: news, action: index, page: 1, sf_culture: en }

I take the slug basen on the current culture.