mcamara/laravel-localization named routes localization

Question

I set up mcamara/laravel-localization 1.3 library in laravel 5.6 according to the documentation and in users table i create lang column which i set every time user switch language (this allow me to send "background" cyclic emails in proper language or set proper language after user login). I set all my routes in web.php in group LaravelLocalization::setLocale() (as documentation says).

I want to use named routes inside my controllers e.g. for redirection to proper page after user login (user came from EN landing page, but his lang='pl'). When in my LoginController@redirectTo() I use just:

App::setLocale(Auth::user()->lang);
$url =  route('dashboard.index');
return $url;

// current result $url = 'http://ebnavi.localhost/en/panel/raporty'
// desired result $url = 'http://ebnavi.localhost/pl/panel/raporty'

It doesn't work. I don't found direct instruction in documentation about this.

So how to do it?

Answer 1

After few hours finally I found this solution in internet:

$url = LaravelLocalization::getLocalizedURL($locale, route($routeName));

And create following helper function to realize this task

function localRoute($routeName, $locale = null)
{
    if (!$locale && Auth::user())  $locale = Auth::user()->lang;

    return $locale ? LaravelLocalization::getLocalizedURL($locale, route($routeName)) : route($routeName);
}

In our controller we can just use it in this way:

$url =  localRoute('dashboard.index');

But may be exists some better approach for this?