How to have truly multilingual URLs

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#Introduction  
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We can easily have a multilingual site if we put a "lang" parameter that comes via GET. For example:
```php
<?php echo CHtml::link('GameDownloads', array('/site/gamedownloads', 'lang' => 'en')); echo CHtml::link('Juegos', array('/site/games', 'lang' => 'es')); 
 
echo CHtml::link('Services', array('/site/services', 'lang' => 'en')); 
 
echo CHtml::link('Servicios', array('/site/serviceDescargas', array('/site/downloads', 'lang' => 'es')); 
?>
```Then, in Controller.php, we need to put this piece of code:


```php

public function beforeAction($action)
{Finally we can add the following rules:


```php

'urlManager'=>array(
'urlFormat'=>'path',```

#The problem  
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This leads to URLs like these: - http://www.oligalma.com/en/games downloads (English) - http://www.oligalma.com/es/games  (Spanish)
 
- http://www.oligalma.com/en/services  (English)
 
- http://www.oligalma.com/es/services downloads (Spanish)
 
This is fine to have a multilingual site. But, we can go one step further. What if we want URLs like these: - [http://www.oligalma.com/en/games](http://www.oligalma.com/en/games "") downloads (English) - [http://www.oligalma.com/es/juegos](http://www.oligalma.com/es/juegos "")  (Spanish)
 
- [http://www.oligalma.com/en/services](http://www.oligalma.com/en/services "")  (English)
 
- [http://www.oligalma.com/es/servicios](http://www.oligalma.com/es/servicios "") descargas (Spanish) That is, every URL has its particular path. It changes the whole URL, not just the two initial letters (en/es). #The solution ------------  
```php

'urlManager'=>array(
'matchValue'=>true,'showScriptName'=>false,
'rules'=>array(
        '<lang:\w+>'=>'site/index',             '<lang:esn>/juegos'=> 'site/games',
 
           '<lang:en>/games'=> 'site/games',
 
           '<lang:es>/servicios'=> 'site/services',
 
           '<lang:en>/services'=> 'site/services',
 
       downloads'=> 'site/downloads',
 
'<lang:es>/descargas'=> 'site/downloads',
 
'<lang:\w+>/<action>' => 'site/<action>',
)
),
```

(Take note that we also added **'matchValue' => true** to the urlManager array.)