I’m building a bilingual site in Laravel 4 and my URLs contain a locale identifier. Beyond that, it’s important to have nice looking slugs in the right language. So, let’s say I have a route at which you would find mugs. The equivalent in French would be tasses.
Currently what I'm doing is
Route::get('{locale}/mugs', ['uses' => 'MugsController@index']);
Route::get('{locale}/mugs/{id}', ['uses' => 'MugsController@show']);
Route::get('{locale}/tasses', ['uses' => 'MugsController@index']);
Route::get('{locale}/tasses/{id}', ['uses' => 'MugsController@show']);
And a short URL/locale check and redirect in the controller methods that makes sure that the slug is in the right language, so you don't end up with /fr/mugs
, for example.
This works ok but may get unwieldy since I will have two of each if I make any more routes. For example, I'd have to have both {locale}/mugs/ceramic/{id}
and {locale}/tasses/ceramique/{id}
, etc.
Is there a way to do something like {locale}/mugs|tasses/{id}
in Laravel? Or even check with RegEx?
I know you can check the route parameters with RegEx, but can you check the actual path components?