Laravel set default language not working

Question

I have changed the default website localization in confing/app.php to be (de)

'locale' => 'de',
'fallback_locale' => 'de',

But still website is loading in 'en' localization .

I tried clearing the view cache and cache but nothing changed .

I am using https://github.com/mcamara/laravel-localization

The de will be activate only when i use the URL domainname.com/de

Americana

did you clear the 'config' cache? did you set 'useAcceptLanguageHeader' correctly? – Cooler

@Cooler yes i cleared the config cache nothing changed. I don't have accept language header right now. But i want to force using de language – Americana

so you didn't touch the config file for this package? – Cooler

@Cooler I just uncommitted the required language in config/laravellocalization.php – Americana

and how about the other vars in that config file – Cooler

@Cooler nothing changed just uncommitted the 'de' line – Americana

so how about the other vars with the comments that tell you what they are for ... any of them sound like they are important? – Cooler

@Cooler yes i think there was one that sound like it's important :) 'useAcceptLanguageHeader' => true, Changed to false , issue solved – Americana

;) ... ill post that up – Cooler

Answer 1

In the scenario to not be using the dynamic locale in the URL it seems you will have to adjust the configuration file for this package:

'useAcceptLanguageHeader' => false,

From the comments for that variable:

"Negotiate for the user locale using the Accept-Language header if it's not defined in the URL? If false, system will take app.php locale attribute"

Seems to get it to use that default you have to set this to false.

You could play with the other variable:

'hideDefaultLocaleInURL' => true,

to see how that adjusts the default behavior as well.

Cooler

you saved my day! – Dipterous

how to search file? – Slovene

Answer 2

i had the same proplem go to laravellocalization.php in config

and make

'useAcceptLanguageHeader' => false,

and then run

php artisan config:clear

and it will work

Penetrate

Answer 3

try to add __construct() function to your controller. :)

public function __construct(){}

Extractive

This answer is under rated. I am using laravel 11 and none above worked out, the moment I saw that notorious :) in the answer I was like "Oh! in request life cycle the controller class is being instantiated (which is why controller functions are not static) hence you can use docs to compelete it thx :)) – Physoclistous

If you are using [form request validation](laravel.com/docs/11.x/validation#form- request-validation) you can add this constructor to that class as well. – Physoclistous

Answer 4

this way is best for me

app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php

in boot() function write these lines

session()->put('locale', 'ar');

app()->setLocale(session()->get('locale'));

Concavoconcave

Answer 5

//To make the default website with the language AR.

//At the first time, the user does not have any session. So, we will add a

//session and set the language to be AR if it is not the first time.

//Then, depending on the language you choose.

//In the web.php

Route::get('/', function () {
    if (Session::get('language') == 'en') {
        Session::put('language', 'en');
        App::setLocale('en');
        return redirect('main-services/1/1');
    } else {
        Session::put('language', 'ar');
        App::setLocale('ar');
        return redirect('main-services/1/1');
    }
});

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