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How to have truly multilingual URLs

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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('TutorialDownloads', array('/site/tutorialdownloads', 'lang' => 'en')); echo CHtml::link('Tutoriales', array('/site/tutorials', 'lang' => 'es')); 
 
echo CHtml::link('Services', array('/site/services', 'lang' => 'en')); 
 
echo CHtml::link('Servicios', array('/site/serviceDescargas', array('/site/downloads', 'lang' => 'es')); 
?>
```
[...]
```

#The problem  
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This leads to URLs like these:
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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/downloads (English) - http://www.oligalma.com/es/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>/tutorialedownloads'=> 'site/tutorials',
 
           '<lang:en>/tutorials'=> 'site/tutorials',
 
           '<lang:es>/servicios'=> 'site/services',
 
           '<lang:en>/services'=> 'site/services',
 
       downloads',
 
'<lang:es>/descargas'=> 'site/downloads',
 
'<lang:\w+>/<action>' => 'site/<action>',
)
),
```

(Take note that we also added **'matchValue' => true** to the urlManager array.)
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Written by: oligalma
Last updated by: oligalma
Created on: Sep 29, 2015
Last updated: 3 years ago
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