README

A PHP middleware for handling localization and language preferences in web applications.

Installation

You can install this package via Composer. Run the following command:

composer require basteyy/php-localization-middleware

Usage

To use this middleware in your PHP application, follow these steps:

Create an instance of the LocalizationMiddleware class with your desired configuration and add it as middleware. For example:

    $app->add(new \basteyy\LocalizationMiddleware\LocalizationMiddleware(
        default_language: 'de',                     // Default language
        available_languages: ['de', 'ua', 'en'],    // Supported languages
        patch_requested_url: true,                  // Patch the requested url to remove the language in case there is one
        browser_overwrite_url: false,               // Overwrite the url language with the browser language
        patch_only_exactly_match: false             // Patch requested url only if the language is exactly matched (only when url contain a supported language)
    ));

The middleware will automatically determine the preferred language based on the request and set it as an attribute on the request object. You can access the language attribute using $request->getAttribute('language').

Configuration

The LocalizationMiddleware class can be configured with the following options:

• $default_language: The default language to use when no preferred language is detected. It should be a two-letter language code (e.g., 'en').
• $available_languages: An array of supported languages, each represented by a two-letter language code (e.g., 'en', 'de', 'fr').
• $patch_requested_url: Set to true to patch the requested URL by removing the language prefix (e.g., '/en/...').
• $browser_overwrite_url: Set to true to overwrite the URL with the browser's preferred language even if the URL specifies a different language.
• $patch_only_exactly_match: Set to true, when only supported languages stripped from the url (path)

License

ISC License

Copyright (c) 2023 basteyy sebastian@xzit.online

Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

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