Codeigniter language segments in routing

Question

I have this:

$route['(:any)'] = "front/$1"; // front
$route['admin/(:any)'] = "admin/$1"; // admin

i want to make url like this:

mysite.com/en/somecontroller/somemethod

mysite.com/ru/somecontroller/somemethod

etc...

i guess something like this:

$route['(:any)'] = "front/$1"; // front
$route['(:any)/(:any)'] = "front/$2";

$route['admin/(:any)'] = "admin/$1"; // admin
$route['(:any)/admin/(:any)'] = "admin/$2";

but I get errors when the first segment is language, CI thinks that is a controller

Answer 1

If you are using CodeIgniter's language class , then this URI Language Identifier class extension should do exactly what you want.

This language class extension allows you to automatically prefix all site urls with a language abbreviation that is pre-defined in your config file or from a link and automatically load the corresponding language translation file, the route will then be corrected by the route regex for everything to work as normal.