The benefit of a front controller plugin is that it will have access to the
request. This would, for example, allow you to add a link in your layout
that reads "View in French" that would be a link to the current page but
with a "lang" parameter in the request:
<a href="<?= $this->url(array('lang' => 'fr')) ?>">View in French</a>
Your plugin could then check for a "lang" parameter and then switch the
site's language (and update the cookie) if it exists.
I currently use a similar plugin to switch between an "enhanced" version of
the site (heavy use of JS/CSS) and a "light" version (for mobile browsers)
without causing the user to lose what page they were on.
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Hector
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:56 AM, holografix . <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am developing a multi-language site/application and have this scenario:
>
> Check if a cookie exists with a language value.
> If the cookie does not exists, query a 'ip2country' table, set the language
> based on user's ip and set the cookie
> User may change language later and the cookie is updated.
>
> My question is about the best place to run this code.
>
> I have a _initLanguage method in bootstrap but is this a case better suited
> for a front controller plugin ?
>
> Regards,
> holo
>
>
>
